'Mama Calle'
Documentary on streetkids in Mexico City ; how they survive on their streets.They call the streets of Mexico City 'Mama Calle', 'Mother Street'.
DESCRIPTION: Mama Calle. A real story about the life of street children in one of the largest cities in the world, Mexico City. The roof of a metro-station is their home and life is tough. 'Pelon',14 years, and 'Negro’,9 years, are inseparable. Like many other children they live and work on the teeming streets. Their faces are marked by the struggle for survival, in their eyes a cynical look.
Director Arjanne Laan followed them to their hiding places, spending nights in the cold buildings where they sleep. She saw the hunger and boredom, the lack of warmth and a home. And their flight out: glue sniffing - a flight into a shadow death. Above all she saw the courage and strength, and the often childish way they manage their lives.
Press about 'Mama Calle' .... a stirring documentary about destitute street kids in Mexico City ; .... strikingly beautiful imagery ; ... outstanding cinematography ; ...to-the-point editing. (Variety) ; .... this makes Mama Calle a uniquely moving documentary, a film of dangerous beauty. As dangerous and hallucinating as the lives of the glue sniffers in Mexico-City. (De Filmkrant); .... a film one must see. But above all it is a film that teaches how to look. (Skrien); .... the intensity of the film and the powerful camera work make Mama Calle one of the best Dutch documentaries of the last 5 years. (film festival director Marco Muller)
CREDITS
Written and directed by: Arjanne Laan
Produced by: Kaie Klaassen voor Moving Image Production
With: 'the kids' Alfredo Flores Léon - 'El Pelon', Israel Tolentino Garçia - 'El Negro’, Juan Emanuel Jimenez Flores Balentin
Ligthing cameraman: Melle van Essen
Sound: Jesus Sanchez
Music: Patricio Wang
Editing: Jan Dop
Year release: 1990
AWARDS:
1991 Premio Costa Azul Portugal;
1991 Gold Hugo Award Chicago.
1990 Award Stad Utrecht;
1990 Yamagata speciale vermelding
[ Low Quality /Only use as screening view copy.]
Mama Calle - eng - 1080.mp4
30 сен 2024
