A New York Times Critics' Pick and 100% Rotten Tomatoes Fresh, the Guatemalan documentary film La Camioneta by Mark Kendall is a “an upbeat story of resilience, regeneration and artistic imagination” (Stephen Holden, New York Times) and a timely film that reminds us of the interconnected world in which we live.
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day.
Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs. La Camioneta follows one such bus on its transformative journey: a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected world in which we live.
LA CAMIONETA
A film by Mark Kendall
(Guatemala/USA, 2013, 71 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
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