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- 2017 · Documentary · 1h 45m
Oct 20, 2017 · The prison is run by and for the Gulf cartel, which tortures all inmates as they arrive. That, no doubt, is to soften them up for what comes next. They’re told that unless their families pay to keep them alive, their futures will be very bleak indeed. In Miriam’s case, the criminals demand a $5,000 upfront payment, then $500 a week.
May 19, 2017 · Tempestad: Directed by Tatiana Huezo. The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
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- Tatiana Huezo
- 2017-05-19
Jan 11, 2018 · Tempestad review – twin stories of broken Mexican lives, exquisitely told. This article is more than 6 years old. This powerful, luminously shot documentary pairs the tales of a woman jailed for ...
- Leslie Felperin
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Tempestad (2016) Movie Info Synopsis The emotional journey of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico, and how they used love, dignity and resistance to survive.
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- Tatiana Huezo
- On Her Relationship with Miriam and Adela
- On The Dangers Involved in Making The Film
- On The Film’S Structure
- On Miriam’s Current Plight
- On The Film’S Symbolism
Well, Miriam is one of my oldest and dearest friends. I met her when I was 17 years old, over 20 years ago. We both wanted to get into filmmaking. Many years later—four years ago—I ran into her after not having seen her for a long time. And that was a year after she’d been released from jail. It was very difficult for both of us to meet given the c...
I live in Mexico. And we were afraid while we were making the film. We had to have a very specific strategy while shooting, and once we finished it we had to evaluate the risks involved. We’re living in a time when journalists are being killed for doing their work. Perhaps the fear was the hardest challenge of making this film. I had to decide at s...
I tend to work a lot on a film’s structure. I don’t know how to shoot a film without it. When I started to imagine how to tell this story, I had the journey in mind. I had this idea that the film could begin with Miriam leaving the prison. Doing my research I did the trip that she’d done. To me it was very clear that I had to follow this journey, f...
Miriam doesn’t know exactly, by name, who sent her to jail. Or, maybe she’s too scared to share the name. But she knows they’re very powerful people. They’re people from the Instituto Nacional de Imigración, which is where she used to work at as an immigration agent. They were the ones who accused her and led to her incarceration. Now she’s decided...
Yes, the film’s ending is totally symbolic. It works on a couple of different levels, and some of them do speak to this Mayan underworld. But my intention for those final shots was to depict Miriam’s homecoming. She was medicated for many months. She couldn’t get out of bed. She really couldn’t be in the world. I wanted to represent that her life, ...
- Manuel Betancourt
Cerebral and emotional, Tempestad is a road movie fuelled by the memories of unjust punishment. It's a bumpy but illuminating ride. Full Review | May 22, 2017. A hard whirlwind of inner emotions ...
Tempestad is a 2016 Mexican documentary film directed by Tatiana Huezo. It was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards , but it was not nominated.
