VENEZUELA [SUR] REALISTA

Venezuela [Sur] Realist

España. 2011. Color. 54 min. Documental. Vídeo.
  • Film Director: Francisco Guaita.
It's a documentary that reorganizes, as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the most crucial moments of the Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Republic, without succumbing to the shrillness of the facts. The opinions of community leaders, worldwide political leaders, intellectuals and journalists join to approach the complex reality in Venezuela, showing the people of the country.

Francisco Guaita
He was born in Madrid in 1978. He is a Spanish journalist, who graduated from the Media Faculty at Navarra University, Spain, and decided to travel throughout the world to report on it. He has worked as the correspondent for Telesur in Washington, for various news agencies in El Salvador, Honduras, Georgia, Equatorial Guinea and Venezuela. He has received prizes such as the prestigious 'Moors Cabot' prize awarded by Columbia University and his first documentary 'Viejas costumbres' recieved awards in national and international festivals, especially in Iber-America. He strives to work for a type of journalism that is both responsible and supportive and which gives back to people who have been cynically silenced by indifference and injustice the right to speak out and to vote.