From Paper to Territory – and from Territory to the Screen
Thinking about this challenge from the very beginning, it was an easy thing: to make a documentary about El Yuguelito and the on-the-ground work through the CivActs methodology. Also, one that could expose the structural failures of participation mechanisms in Mexico City and serve as a portrait of urban inequality. And to do it as a civil society organization without any real audiovisual production capacity, while running two other programs at the same time, under budget limitations; oh, and with a four-person team. Did that discourage us? Not at all. But it was clear that every step we took [...]