Video 2: A JOURNEY YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE

I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO BOLIVIA

ICEI: Post 4 SUMMARY Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech

Wednesday, 9 October 2013


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/mexico-freedom-of-speech-presumed-guilty

Jo Tuckman explains that the Mexican documentary named Presumed Guilty provoked a very controversial case, because it is about a man wrongly convicted of murder twice. This film won many awards and had a great recognition on spectators but only through piracy because formal communication media did not approved its transmission on TV, so as it was banned by Mexican authorities less than a month after its release.

The author argue that this film also triggered a hard debate on the Mexican judicial system and even the film maker is in a big trouble with justice because of this film, and its reported that he has received some dead threats, 

The author explains that the story of the films describes the life of a street vendor convicted of murder on very flimsy evidence amid obvious abuses of authority and due process. 

This article shows that the The film-maker has directly accused the Mexico City's judicial hierarchy. The author says that this accusation is directed to prove that the judges are secretly driving forward the cases against this film as a reprisal for the way the film exposed the entire system. 

Tuckman points out that the documentary's legal problems must answer from complaints from a witness who admits, on camera, that he lied about seeing the street vendor, Antonio Zuñiga, shoot the murder victim. And it reports too that apparently the police office who arrested the vendor has complained because he was accused for arresting Zuñiga without a warrant or any proof. 

ICEI Post 7. Year 2013: Good and bad things

What a year !!!

This year has been a very exciting year. First, I left my parent´s house and now on I will be an independent man. I found a job on weekends that allows me to live well with my girlfriend and I like that job a lot. 

Besides, my post grade project in the university was approved so I have been working in a professional way to create a great and intelligent documentary about the history of chilean workers.

There have been some situations that did not go so well this year, one of them is related to my university project. Because I had to give my total time and attention to this, I was not able to find a better job, maybe Monday to Friday from 8 am to 16 pm, and if I had that kind of job maybe I could have traveled more or buying some things I needed.

I guess my mayor achievement in 2013 has been my participation in an international congress of communications and media. Many specialists ans professionals in my specialization were invited to expose their findings and investigations and I shared a table with them, besides two of my papers were published, so I think it was a very successful moment.

Well, but this year is far from perfection, I need to do some things like learning how to drive a car, but I'm waiting for summer. Even though my mayor concern is to finish my documentary, that is not the end of it, because once it's done I have to present it for several festivals and maybe participate in some film awards. No one 

Maybe the most important news that I might highlight could be the classification of Chilean national soccer team that classified to the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. As I am a big fan of football soccer I'm really happy for this event. I only hope that I have the chance to travel even if is a long way to Brazil instead of watching it on television. 

Post 6: My dear Italian cinema

Since I was child,  I really enjoyed classic movies, I don´t know why but maybe I love that kind of stories. But not any movie, I mostly preferred Italian neorealistic films. In opposition to Hollywood classic movies, because I didn´t understand that way of life and obviously they were to musicals.

So well, Italian directors such as Rosellini, Felini, Antonioni, ViscontI, , De Sicca and many others that appeared some years after like Taviani brothers or Pasollini showed me how that kind of cinema is the cinema that every society needs, films that could be very critical and fun at the same time.

The humor of the Italian films is sublime and they describe perfectly their society, but this neorealistic style is not to the purpose of entertaining  people but to generate new interpretations of their communities.

After World War 2, Italy woke up totally destroyed, in a physically and morally way. Cities were devastated and many people died, the film industry had to reinvent their spaces and find new gaps and possibilities. There were no big studies so many film makers took their cameras and equipment and went off the street and recorded reality but they tried to show all the misery that war and fascism had created in that nation.

Some films like : LADRI DI BICICLETTE and UMBERTO D  by Vittorio de Sicca, ROMA CITTÀ APERTA and GERMANIA ANNO ZERO by Rossellini, LA TERRA TREMA by Visconti , were tremendous films that describe a moment and project a complete new kind of movies that still remains in the memories of any who love Italian movies.

Post 5: How green am I?

I have mostly learned about environmentally friendly practices surfing the web, I think it’s the only permanent media that shows how to maintain good habits, in several pages I have found many tips about to protect water or maintain fresh air.

Now that I live by myself, I mean, no longer with my parents I‘ve been able to incorporate recycling into my habits, such as create “compost” to recycle all the organic trash, like fruits skins and rotten vegetables, eggshells and potato peels. So, I am using that compost to fertilize the earth for the garden.

Well, I currently use my bike, I am a good biker, and as I can`t drive a car I obviously prefer my bike. It is an old bike but I have maintain it in very good shape.

Officially, I don’t support any eco-organization but I like the performance o SEA SHEPPARD, they protect whales and other see animals fighting against big corporations that kill many defenseless animals using the meanest ways. So, the only way to stop them is fighting back and resists their attacks. Sometimes they get in trouble but this organization has good contacts and their members have a lot of supporters.

I don´t know, I can´t afford a more green kind of life, because is considerably expensive living in a green way of life. Maybe, I could regulate my time in front of this computer, because these machines are not very friendly with the environment, what a contradiction.

So, to reduce my carbon footprint I have tried to use the computer less, or watching TV only a few hours a day, I use my bike more than cars and a I don’t buy anything that a I don’t need. Because I think that consumerism is one of the biggest causes of the depredation on earth and this awful kind of life is very present in our society. Santiago is one of the most problematic city about contamination and total lack of interest to protect our air or water and in this city our authorities maintain this capitalist system and this system is not aware of the environment.

VIDEO 1: A GIFT THAT I RECEIVED AS A CHILD

PILLIN

When I was two years old I received the most important gift I ever had, it was on my birthday, on Christmas eves of 1986. I remember that it was next to me when I woke up that morning, and when I opened my eyes I saw a beautiful toy. It was a plastic dog, a yellow fake plastic animal that had a delicious smell of lemon.

It was soft and tender and one of its legs was softer than others so I chewed it every time and now it has a hole in its leg.

As a child, I played with it everyday and maybe I even spoke to it, why not. At that time I spent many days very lonely and without any friend. I was a bubble boy because I remained very sick with asthma and flu.

But when I grew up I got stronger and I was able to play outside my bedroom, I had a lot a friends that invited me to play outside but when I came back to my bedroom  my plastic dog was always there, waiting to play with me.

Now it´s a little bit dirty because it`s been many years since I received it. But it remains as one of my dearest toys, but I really don´t remember who gave it to me, my mother says that maybe my granpa, in that case it´s more important to me, he passed away two years ago and I really miss him, and sometimes I think that all the love from my grandfather remains in that toy.

So, this was my first pet, my fake plastic dog named Pillin.

A skil I need to master_Driving cars

WHAT IS A BRAKE?

I don´t know how to drive a car. My only transportation for decades has been my bike, but now that I am working as a professional I guess I need to learn driving but first I need to take lessons.

Somebody told that the new examination is very difficult but that´s not a problem to me, because I like challenges, so I have to study really hard for the theorical examination, then I have to practice for the practical test and finally I will have to pay for the driving license.

But I am a bit scared, I never touched a wheel, and the brakes are those kinds of things that may prevent a car accident. But I am aware of it and one of the most important things, for someone responsible, is to know all the traffic laws and to be a conscious driver.

Finally, my brother will help me master this skills, he has a car and he´s a very good and responsible diver, so he will teach me some basics knowledge about car driving every weekend and in summer I will take that test, so let´s hope, maybe next year I will be a driver too but I won´t have my own car anyway, for that purpose I will wait for a long time I guess, but it doesn´t matter, my brother´s car will be waiting for me.

My ideal job_A football field cameraman

TOUCHING THE GRASS 

I really like football, yes, many people of this country love it as well, but I want to dedicate all my spirit and passion to be a cameraman standing right next to the field, that job would be my ideal job.

I am actually working in a TV station, in Football Channel, (CDF) so I edit and record many games, I guess I have many qualities and skills at my work, I´m good at it and I spend a lot of my time watching football games, but that´s not enough. 

I want to be next to the grass, felling the air, smelling the grass, hearing the crowd shouting and singing just like when I went to the Stadium but in that time I was just an spectator.

It would be great to record directly to the players running and fighting to score, and make a goal. Well, I have my favorite team, I´m very passionate about it but any game would be fantastic. However, if I get that job and I have to record my team besides, wow, that would be glorious.

But, it´s just a dream for now, because is very difficult to get that job, many people want it too, and the actual cameramen are very good professionals and they have a lot of experience but I really hope that someday, sooner than later, that job will be mine.

A PLACE I WOLD LIKE TO VISIT_SWEET CANADA

SWEET CANADA

I'm a film maker but I don't have any money, so I have to rent cameras or ask for favors to my friends but sometimes I can't work because I don´t have my own equipment.

In that sense, I would really like to go to Canada because I need to earn some money, and my purpose is to buy all the equipment that I need to be a professional. Well, I have some family there and they invited me a few years ago. So as I am studying cinema and television in University of Chile and I' m in my last year I hope this dream becomes true really soon.

I would like to find a job and maybe to get a scholarship so I could study in some university or college. I know that in Canada education is public, as well as social security and health insurance.

I also know that Canada is a federation of states, it is a very large country and its landscapes are really amazing. Some people speak in English some in French. My family lives in Toronto so I guess they only speak in English.

They told me that the weather is very similar to the weather in southern Chile, and I lived a few years in Valdivia, so I suppose I'm going to enjoy that rainy and snowy weather.