The New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival has announced two Latin American titles as part the preliminary line up for its 2020 edition, which will take place virtually between June 11 - 20. The Latin American selections that will have their U.S. digital premiere are the Peruvian film Máxima by Claudia Sparrow and the Mexican film Radio Silence / Silencio radid by Juliana Fanjul.
Maxima tells the incredible story of 2016 environmental Goldman Prize winner Máxima Acuña and her family, who own a small, remote plot in the Peruvian Highlands. Faced with intimidation, violence and criminal prosecution, we follow Máxima’s tireless fight for justice, taking her from the Peruvian Supreme Court to the doors of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Radio Silence follows the incorruptible journalist and news anchor Carmen Aristegui, who is regarded by millions of Mexicans as the trusted alternative voice to official government spin, fighting daily against deliberate disinformation spread through news sources, government corruption and the related drugs trade. Facing threats of violence in the wake of a prominent journalist’s vicious murder, Carmen and her colleagues continue in a shared fight for democracy and justice.
The festival will announce its full slate of films on May 14.
