FRIDAY, JUNE 26.
PROGRAM # 7552 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
When former president Lázaro Cárdenas expropiated Mexico’s oil in 1983, the Mexican people chipped in to pay the indemnization to foreign companies. Seventy-seven years after this epic accomplishment, filmmaker Sergio Olhovich is asking Mexicans to fund the filming of the movie “1938, Cuando el Petróleo fue Nuestro” (“1938, When the Oil Was Ours”), a film that revisits this great act of unity between people and government. The filming is set to begin next year. Well-known actors Damián Alcázar and Ofelia Medina will participate, and it will show images of peasants bringing their birds, rich ladies their fur coats and jewelry, and children their piggybanks. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts Voz Pública, from Mexico City.
Guests: Sergio Olhovich, filmmaker, director of “1938: Cuando el Petróleo Fue Nuestro”; José Manuel Pintado, poet and documentarian; Carlos Muñoz, first production assistant; Rosa Elena Ríos, executive producer, Mexico City, Mexico, https://fondeadora.mx/projects/1938-cuando-el-petroleo-fue-nuestro, sergiolhovich@gmail.com
Photo: Antony Stanley/Flickr
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