A Leap of Life

Un salto de vida

2013 · Mexico · Video · Color · 21 min. · Documentary

Once the waterfall El Salto de Juanacatlán was called “the Mexican Niagara.” The arrival of industry and its disposal of toxic pollutants destroyed the tributary of the Río Santiago, polluting the entire river. For the past 30 years, a family— Graciela, Enrique and their daughter Sofía—has fought against the indifference of authorities and the impunity of companies to rescue what once was a river full of life.

Direction: Polgovsky, Eugenio

Script: Polgovsky, Eugenio

Country: Mexico

Production: Films, Tecolote

Production Company: Greenpeace | Tecolote Films

Photography: Polgovsky, Eugenio

Edition: Polgovsky, Eugenio

Sound: Nieto, Marcelo

Music: Castaños, Alejandro | Castores, Los

Year of participation at FICM: 2013

Films by the same director presented at FICM:

Tropic of Cancer (2004)

The Inheritors (2008) Mexican Ritual (2012)

Resurrection (2016)

Trópico de Cáncer (2004) Lightbyrinth

Morelia Film Fest

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