Because of the movie, my heart goes out to Sansón and his relatives I am unable to avoid the feeling that Rodrigo profited from their suffering for this film. Sansón and his family voiced their dissatisfaction with their roles in the film and that caused me to believe that this film could have been done in another manner. It evoked painful recollections for them, and they do not appear to want to continue watching the video after a certain point.
Written by Danielle Kirakos.
Editor’s Note Represent Justice Journalism Project: SANSÓN AND ME, directed by Rodrigo Reyes, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and subsequently won best film award at the Sheffield Doc/Fest June 23-28, 2022. The film is a portrait of a…
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This film is a celebration of the life of Sanson Noe Andrade, and, hopefully, it can somehow garner enough attention leading to him reuniting with his family as a free man, this reviewer hopes.
Review by Conor Sullivan.
“I really enjoyed the continual use of Spanish throughout the film; there is something about hearing and witnessing and experiencing people speaking their mother tongue that even if the audience is not Spanish speaking, audiences can feel comforted by the roundness, warmth, and expressiveness of the language – to be shaken up by the reality of the fragmented and confuse world in which one benevolent action can flip one’s life in a fatefully wrong direction.”
Opinion article by Coco Lin.
“2023 was an exceptional year with so many women playing major creative roles in high profile projects,” AWFJ President Jennifer Merin was quoted as saying. “AWFJ always focuses on and supports women’s contributions in all aspects of film production, and we are delighted that this year’s AWFJ EDA Awards honor women creatives in six of our 10non-gendered BEST OF categories, as well as in all of our Female Focus categories. We hope this female forward trend will continue in 2024.” (Drew Barrymore, however, was one of three who got a nasty sneer.) – Article by Gregg W. Morris