Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
As Jorge and Marcela leave for the hearing, Mariana implores Fernando to understand her unexpected decision.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
Several important conversations take place in the moments before the hearing begins, including Mariana's with her mother regarding her relationship with Fernando.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
All hell breaks loose when an unexpected witness takes the stand for the prosecution.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
In conversations with Jorge as well as her lover, Marcela grapples with the consequences of having exposed her husband.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
The final hearing is approaching, and Jorge Castellanos' cutthroat lawyer has a plan. And, while Mariana's loved ones feel that she would be the strongest witness to counteract it, they must first convince her to attend.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
Having pulled out all the stops throughout the trial, Jorge Castellanos' lawyer makes his final play by calling his client's wife to the stand.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
Following his wife, it's Jorge Castellanos' turn to respond to his lawyer's questions on the stand.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
Following rather compelling testimony from Jorge Castellanos, it's Mariana's turn to take the stand. Will her testimony sway the jurors?
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
When the judge pronounces his sentence, the reactions in the courtroom could not be more dramatic.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
The case of Jorge Castellanos comes to a close with changes in Colombian law and new relationships between the people affected by the tragedy.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Joan Planas’ documentary, Con ánimo de lucro (With Intent to Profit), launches with a list of the UN’s objectives for development in the new millennium. While the UN plan calls for cutting poverty in half by 2015, it’s off to a terrible start. So we’re off to explore what’s gone wrong in Nicaragua, one of the countries with the most NGOs and the highest levels of poverty in Latin America.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Nicaragua, Spain
Continuing their trip through Nicaragua, Planas’ film crew stops in San Nicolás and discusses the lack of potable water. A group of Spaniards have offered to remedy the situation. Why does the problem still exist? Could the elected officials actually be standing in the way of progress?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Nicaragua, Spain
Trying to figure out why he wouldn’t approve the water project, the filmmakers try to track down the mayor, but they can’t find him at home. They do find children with containers making the trek to the water source from home and back.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Nicaragua, Spain
The film crew met with a team from Ayuda en Acción, and it appears that its organizational heart is in the right place. Yet, despite the presence of over five hundred NGOs working to improve the lot of Nicaragua’s poor, their plight worsens every year. Many local activists and intellectuals do not trust the non-profits, and accuse them of having their own enrichment as concern numero uno.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Nicaragua, Spain
That literacy will directly contribute to the health and well being of a people few can doubt. But are a literate people more likely to care for the environment? One man thinks so, and has started a grassroots neighbors teaching neighbors project for the good of both la gente y la tierra.
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