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Flying over the Chureca
Shooting By My Side was often demanding but there were very fun moments. The shoot of aerial images of the Chureca, was one of them. We first had to find the small airport in the middle of the Nicaraguan countryside. Then we had to wait for a plane that never …
Read moreEl Callejón de la Muerte – The Death Lane
Dominga has been homeless all her life. Before living in the Chureca, she hung out with youth gangs in the largest market of Managua. In the Nicaraguan capital, everybody knows el "Callejón de la Muerte", a lane next to one of the busiest intersections of the market, that belongs to …
Read moreTalking about By My Side
Thursday June 28th, 2012, was a special day. It was the first time I spoke publicly about my documentary By My Side. The event took place at SBM Gallery in New York and I was talking with Timothy Bouldry, a photographer who has spent a lot of time in the …
Read moreFrom Razor Wire Rodeo to By My Side
As I was working on this blog recently, I found out that Razor Wire Rodeo, the film I co-produced with Swiss director Nicolas Pallay, was now being broadcast on hulu.com. If you live in the States, you can watch it here: Jerry Brown, the main participant of Razor Wire Rodeo, …
Read moreHalf British flag in the Chureca
You can see surprising things in the Chureca. Like this man holding a half British flag. You can't help wondering how this flag ended up in a dump in Nicaragua and why this man chose to walk through the Chureca holding it like that. We saw him as we were …
Read moreWorld Environment Day
Today people around the world celebrate the UN World Environment Day or "Dia del media ambiente" as it known in Spanish. For our team at By My Side, this is a special day because we did this film to raise awareness on the situation in one of the largest landfills …
Read moreFaces of the Chureca
On this blog, we will show you the faces of a lot of Churequeros in the next few months. Today, another unknown child in the mud of the dump. It has been raining a lot in Managua lately and the mud is what the Churequeros - young and old - …
Read moreDead fetus
You see a lot of things in La Chureca. Virtually everything gets dumped there: syringes, packs of blood, dead horses. Some days it stinks, some days it's muddy, some days it's full of smoke. You never know what to expect, when you drive down the road that leads into the dump …
Read moreBY MY SIDE in La Prensa and El Nuevo Diario
This was part of our daily routine while shooting BY MY SIDE in Managua: pick up an espresso and La Prensa or El Nuevo Diario in one of the Esso gas stations of the Nicaraguan capital. Why Esso? Because as surprising as it might seem, they had some of the …
Read moreBY MY SIDE in Peru, Chile and Spain
After the story about BY MY SIDE , that ran yesterday in La Jornada, a daily paper in Nicaragua, EFE, the largest news service in Spain and Latinoamerica ran a piece on our documentary as well. The EFE story was picked up, among others by lainformacion.com, a large news portal …
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