The documentary “Imperdonable” will be released to the public this February 5th during El Faro. The movie is available until the 8th of May, while the Vimeo On Demand platform can be purchased online for $ 3.99.
“Imperdonable” is the first Salvadoran-qualified film to compete for a Oscar nomination; has been the creditor of the award for the best documentary documentary in three important cinematic festivals in Canada, Mexico and the Netherlands, and forms part of the official selection of other 12 festivals in America, Europe and Asia. Elected by the International Documentary Association (International Documentary Association) between the best 10 cortometers of 2020.
In the year 2021, the award will be the best documentary in the POY Latam awards, which will celebrate the best visual periodism in Iberoamerica. In this same gallery, the Viñayo directorate was chosen as the “Ibero-American filmmaker of the year”.
The film is currently being held at the first stage of judging by members of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences, which is organizing the Oscar awards. To be included within the list of qualifying films to receive this recognition, the Academy demands that the documentary courtesy award the prize of its category in at least one of the accredited festivals, known as “Oscarable”. “Imperdonable” won three Christmas parties: the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, celebrated in Canada; el Guanajuato International Film Festival, and México and el International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and Holanda, it is important to consider the most important festival of documentary film and el mundo.
The list of countries where the film can be exclusively recorded in Spain and Australia, will be taking part in festivals of China that are currently restraining their local exhibition.
February 5, from 00:01 hours, to the medianche, quienes deseen ver Impassable you can enter the El Faro web page, where you will find the steps to follow to make the page online and view the documentary on the Vimeo platform.
“I get excited and I have a lot of power to share this movie with the public, about everything here in El Salvador, and I hope that this story generates debates and deep reflections on society in what we live”, expresses Viñayo, director of Impassable, a pocos días del estreno.
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The film was circulated in May 2019, in the interior of the San Francisco Gotera cell, located in the department of Morazán, in the east of the Salvadoran capital and retiring the membership of a group of inmates, pandillas, who decide to live abiertamente su homoseksualidad.
The filmmakers summed up the content of the film as follows: la iglesia como para la pandilla: ser gay ”.
During the procession, the protagonists of the Vivian film are hacked into a small cell in the Islamic sector of the cell, known as “La isla del Zope”. According to the director, this is one of the main principles: follow up, along with the director of photography, Neil Brandvold, in the interior of a space with reduced space.
The director of the film, Marlén Viñayo, insists that this is not a movie about pandillas. “And of the same form, creo that there is no documentary about homosexuality”, dijo a pocos días del estro. Viñayo, a career and based filmmaker in El Salvador from eight years ago, describes the possible readings of history that are limited to the point of iceberg: we pretend to retire a society with a rotten moral bridge ”.
Carlos Martínez, periodical of El Faro and leader of the film together with Viñayo, has more than one decade in the periodical coverage of Central American pandillas, and reiterates the director’s argument. “The intention of the director and I have not been able to produce a movie about pandillas, we intend to reflect on the society we have built, a society in which it is felt that the verb ‘matar’ is pronounced with the verb ‘amar’ ”, Explained Martínez.
“From this extreme place, that there is a prison, from an Islamic cell in a prisoner prison, our objective is to create a global reflection on the type of societies in which we live,” Martínez agrees. Insisting that “it is the responsibility of periodism, and our first German men, the documentary filmmakers, do not turn to see another lad, and do not pretend that there is no white elephant in the middle of the room”.
The film has a duration of 35 minutes, and is elaborated according to the canons of the observational document. Fue musicaled by the salvadorean artist known as Omnionn and edited by the Spanish filmmaker Andrea Bilbao. In the photo I collaborated with the photojournalists Víctor Peña and Patrick Tombola.
Documentary poster Imperdonable.