Case of Santiago Maldonado: Tristán Bauer and Florencia Kirchner present a film about his death – 20/07/2018

Almost a year after the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado in the Mapuche Pu Lof community in Resistencia de Cushamen, Chubut, Tristan Bauer and Florencia Kirchner prepare to release a documentary on the case to the screen

The film, entitled "The Way of Santiago", has the address of the former head of Radio and Television Argentina, script of the daughter of Néstor and Cristina (with Omar Quiroga) off-screen stories of Darío Grandinetti and the music of Leon Gieco

The promotional poster, which is already circulating on the networks, exposes the famous portrait of Maldonado in the foreground.

According to reports, the release date is August 7 six days after the first anniversary of the disappearance of the artist, whose corpse was found on October 17, 2017 on the river Chubut.

"In Argentine Patagonia, after a La repression led by the national gendarmerie against a Mapuche community that claimed for its land the tycoon Luciano Benetton, disappears the young man of 28 years, alias Santiago Maldonado ", says the synopsis of the band.

the country of 30,000 missing this new disappearance generates complaints from family members, human rights organizations, political parties and society as a whole . The demonstrations multiply until they become innumerable. , 78 days after his disappearance, the body of Santiago appears lifeless on the banks of the river Chubut, continues the description

And closes: "What happened?" Who were responsible? How did your body get there? These are some of the questions this documentary asks to clarify a case that claims truth and justice. "

Behind the project is Jorge" Topo "Devoto who is not new to the audiovisual world K.

The publicist and film producer was one of the promoters documentary on the life of Néstor Kirchner (with Fernando "Chino" Navarro, leader of the Evita Movement) and, after the death of the former president, he entered the inner circle of Máximo and Florencia

Similarly, he became a man of fluid dialogue with the current Senator Kirchner.in 2017, Devoto, who was a leader montonero, knows Cristina Kirchner since 1987 and is among those who have most influenced CFK since his departure from Casa Rosada.

Another of the engines of the film is Osvaldo Papaleo whose only antecedent in the industry is D & P Being the producer of the movie a place in the world, in 1991, by Adolfo Aristarain, with a Notable cast: José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Cecilia Roth Leonor and Benedetto, among others.

To them is added, as badociate producer Jon Alpert an American journalist and documentarian of great trajectory and several times rewarded by Emmy, who was a friend of Fidel Castro.