BOATMEN

BOTEROS

By Martin TURNES

AQUERONTE - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2011

Settled down for over 100 years in the Isla Maciel, the boatmen that cross back and forward the Riachuelo, provide a service to the people on both sides of the most polluted watercourse in Argentina.

Festivals
& Awards

LA NOCHE DEL CORTOMETRAJE (ARG) 2011
Official Competition - 1st Mention
VI Festival Nacional de Cine de Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba (ARG) 2011
Best Documentary
6º Pizza, Birra y Cortos (Santa Fé, ARG) 2011
Official Competition - Best Documentary
FLVR (ARG) 2011
Official Competition - Public Prize
Festival Imágenesociales (La Rioja, ARG) 2011
Official Competition - 1st Price
Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Olavarría (ARG) 2011
Official Competition - Best Documentary
Festival Espiello - Muestra de Documental Etnográfico (Huesca, ESPAÑA) 2011
Official Competition - Accesit Prize
    • Year of production
    • 2011
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 25 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Martin TURNES
    • Writer(s)
    • Martín TURNES, Verónica DEMA, Gustavo BARCO
    • Producer(s)
    • Fernando ROMANAZZO (AQUERONTE), Martín TURNES (PUENTE FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Settled down for over 100 years in the Isla Maciel, the boatmen that cross back and forward the Riachuelo, provide a service to the people on both sides of the most polluted watercourse in Argentina. But the re-building of a bridge between the island and the Federal Capital will check the job they inherited from their grandfathers and great grandfathers, a “collateral damage” that comes from the hand of progress. Boatmen is an accompaniment to this process, a silent and subtle battle, that may leave them without their historical work.