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Film festival encourages social engagement in Colombia

The Colombian city of Neiva is located in the valley of the Magdalena River. For the past few decades, a spate of terrorist attacks, corruption cases and violence against women have kept the city in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. But two young journalists based in the city are trying to change that. Hernando Flórez and Luis Eduardo Manrique founded the Cinexcusa Neiva Film Festival seven years ago as a way to get people to critically engage with the social and political issues affecting them.

Listen to the report by Pablo Medina Uribe in Neiva, Colombia.
Film festival encourages social engagement in Colombia

Co-directors Hernando Florez and Luis Eduardo Manrique

Learn more about the Cinexcusa Neiva Film Festival on the website.

Date

Tuesday 18.12.2012 | 14:58

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