Impact Days Catalogue
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By Carolina Corral Paredes and Carolina Corral Paredes

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While Lina, Angy and Edith were searching for their disappeared daughters and relatives in Morelos, Mexico, they discovered that the District Attorney secretly buried the bodies of over 200 people murdered during a failed war against crime, which actually targeted civilians. The film follows their training in forensic tasks and their participation in the exhumation of the bodies, so that the disappeared may return home. Their findings reveal a breathtaking reality: the Mexican authorities are involved in the disappearances by secretly burying people in hidden common graves.

Section : Impact Days
Country : Mexico
Original language : Spanish
Directors
Carolina Corral Paredes
Carolina Corral Paredes (Mexico)
Producers
Magali Rocha Donnadieu
Magali Rocha (Mexico)
Amate Films MX
Completion
June 2020
Impact Statement
We want to raise international awareness of the forensic and disappearance crisis in our country, through screenings with NGOs, multilateral organizations, journalists, forensic experts and scholars abroad. The film has the potential to channel empathy towards the search for lost family members led by mothers and relatives in Mexico, connecting them with other human rights movements and activists abroad. We need help to urge Mexican authorities to identify more than 38,000 bodies buried by the authorities, so they may return to their loved ones, and inform us about any other unknown burial sites throughout the country. International visibility and support will help us strengthen the negotiations with the state and federal governments regarding the case of the illegal mass grave in Jojutla, Morelos.
Help us #DigUpTheTruth for the disappeared people in Mexico to return home.
Impact Goals
  1. To raise international awareness on the human rights violations and disappearances in Mexico.
  2. To create empathy for and solidarity towards the mothers and relatives searching for their lost family members in Mexico.
  3. To urge the Mexican authorities to identify the more than 38,000 unidentified bodies and inform on other unknown burial sites throughout the country.
  4. To build international pressure around the case of the hidden pits of Morelos, Mexico, to influence official negotiations.
Impact Strategy
  • Offer virtual international screenings for NGOs, experts, scholars, students, etc. interested in Mexico, human rights, women’s movements and forensic issues.
  • Organize international virtual Q&A sessions with the participation of the search groups of Morelos, protagonists of the film.
  • Show the documentary to journalists, NGOs, forensic experts, feminists and activists abroad who could write about the issue.
  • Connect the documentary with the actions of social, artistic and human rights’ movements around the world and within Mexico.
  • Screen the documentary to Mexican federal and local decision makers and other key stakeholders to reach agreements in the Jojutla common grave case.
  • Connect the Mexican search groups featured in the film with international stakeholders who could support their work.
  • Connect the forensic database created by the search groups with forensic experts worldwide.
Contact
Primary contacts
Magali Rocha (Mexico): magali.rochad@gmail.com
Merle Ilina (Mexico): ilina.merle@gmail.com
Participants present at the Impact Days
Carolina Corral Paredes (Mexico)
Merle Ilina (Mexico)
Magali Rocha (Mexico)

NGOs / Organisations
Open Society Foundations
Ford Foundation
Movement for the Disappeared
Serapaz
Article 19 – Mexico
Data Civica
Amnesty International Mexico
CMDPDH
El Día Después
HCHR-Mexico

Funders
Bertha Fund
Chicken & Egg Pictures
Open Society Foundations
Ford Foundation

Festivals / Programs
Gijón International Film Festival
DocsMX

Distributors / Promoters
Network Human Rights Festivals

Other
CNDH (Mexico’s commission on human
rights)
GIASF (Mexican forensic experts)
London Mexico Solidarity Association
Mexican Student Board of Bristol
University

NGOs / Organisations
Open Society Foundations
Ford Foundation
Movement for the Disappeared
Serapaz
Article 19 – Mexico
Data Civica
Amnesty International Mexico
CMDPDH
El Día Después
HCHR-Mexico

Funders
Bertha Fund
Chicken & Egg Pictures
Open Society Foundations
Ford Foundation

Festivals / Programs
Gijón International Film Festival
DocsMX

Distributors / Promoters
Network Human Rights Festivals

Other
CNDH (Mexico’s commission on human
rights)
GIASF (Mexican forensic experts)
London Mexico Solidarity Association
Mexican Student Board of Bristol
University