UN POQUITO DE TANTA VERDAD
When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media.
They took the media.
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.
But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.
A 90-minute documentary, Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth) captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
“Passionate and enthusiastic! Another example of radio as a tool in the struggle of oppressed peoples.”
“Beautiful, powerful, dramatic...magnificent.
Everyone interested in the state of our world and the struggle for social justice should see this film.”
“Brilliant. Intimacy permeates this film as it permeates the struggle in Oaxaca.”
“A tour de force of documentary filmmaking.
Brilliantly conceived and executed.
Demonstrates the essential role of radio
as a weapon of mass instruction.”
“An exceptional film. The role that media play in the heart of the struggle indicates that this may well be the first true 21st century revolution.”
“Who better than Freidberg to give us this frontline account of how media became the driving force
behind Oaxaca’s popular movement?”
“Go see this movie! It is terrific!”
“A beautiful, terrifying, and very hopeful film.”
“Powerful...impressive. An essential testimony.
Without a doubt, A Little Bit of So Much Truth will leave it’s mark on contemporary,
independent documentary filmmaking.”
“ A brave, thrilling, tragic, and yet often
mordantly funny documentary. Told with an urgency that many a documentary maker ought to emulate.”
“A superb portrait of the power of grassroots media in general, and community radio in particular.”
