Digna... hasta el último aliento
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Digna... hasta el último aliento ("Digna (dignified)... until the last breath") is a Mexican film released in 2003.
This documentary is about Digna Ochoa Plácido, a human rights
activist who died under mysterious circumstances in 2001 in Mexico City
following her kidnapping by the federal police in 1999. It was presented at the Guadalajara and Berlin Film Festivals. It won the Ariel Award in 2005
in the category of Best Feature Length Documentary ("Mejor Largometraje Documental") for Felipe Cazals
. It was also nominated for the Ariel Award for the Best Actress (Vanessa Bauche
).
about this film
This documentary is about Digna Ochoa Plácido, a human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
activist who died under mysterious circumstances in 2001 in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
following her kidnapping by the federal police in 1999. It was presented at the Guadalajara and Berlin Film Festivals. It won the Ariel Award in 2005
Ariel Award in 2005
The XLVII Award of the Premio Ariel of the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas took place on March 29 of 2005 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes...
in the category of Best Feature Length Documentary ("Mejor Largometraje Documental") for Felipe Cazals
Felipe Cazals
Felipe Cazals is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer born in Guethary, France, but registered as born in Zapopan, Jalisco, where he lived his childhood, before being established with his family in Mexico City...
. It was also nominated for the Ariel Award for the Best Actress (Vanessa Bauche
Vanessa Bauche
-Early life:Bauche was born Alma Vanessa Bauche Chavira, named after actress Vanessa Redgrave. Her father was a Gypsy who married her mother, a woman who aspired to be a dancer and singer. At the time of the marriage, her mother was sixteen years her father's junior. The couple divorced when Bauche...
).
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with Felipe CazalsFelipe Cazals
Felipe Cazals is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer born in Guethary, France, but registered as born in Zapopan, Jalisco, where he lived his childhood, before being established with his family in Mexico City...
about this film
- Digna... at the Spanish Film Festival in ManchesterManchesterManchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
- Digna... at the San Diego Latino Film Festival
- Digna... at the Chicago International Documentary Festival
- Digna... at the Montreal Film Festival