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CHAPTER 1
An average of 400 children are born in Nicaragua every day, 100 of them to adolescent mothers.
This documentary narrates the lives of three such adolescents: 14-year-old Kenia, from a poor neighborhood in Managua; 15-year-old Blanca, who lives deep in the mountains; and Viviana, a 16-year-old Miskito indigenous girl from the North Atlantic region.
None of the three had planned to be a mother at such an early age. We sought them out and followed their lives for several months, learning about their families, their stories of love, their doubts, their hopes and the tough reality in which they went through their pregnancy and will have to raise their children
CHAPTER 2
Three adolescents
Three mothers
Three years of their lives ….
At the beginning of the story, Kenia, Blanca and Viviana were between 14 and 16 years old. They were pregnant and gave birth.
After the camera followed them through that stage, their lives went on. Now, we pick their stories back up from the beginning and continue accompanying to learn how they are.
How are they raising their children? Did their dreams come true? Did they get pregnant again? Do they have support from their partners, their families, society?
These aren’t love stories with a happy ending. They are stories to make you think. And act, since traditional ideas about women’s identity and the meaning of maternity bring us face to face with increasingly urgent questions.
- UNICEF Film Award, UNICEF UK 2007
- International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Glasgow 2007
- Dirkvandersypen Award. Best Latin American Documentary. Belgium. 2007
Audience Prize. - Best Documentary. Belize Int Film Fest. February 2005
- Special Mention. Festival Latinoamericano De Video Rosario. Argentina. Sept 2005
- XVI Muestra Nacional de Cine y Video. Documental, Antropológico y Social. Buenos Aires. Argentina. Oct. 2006.
- III Muestra Internacional de Cine y Derechos Humanos Alicante-México. Oct 2006.
- Festival Centroamericano ICARO. Guatemala. Oct. 2006.
- Document 4 - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Glasgow. Oct 2006.
- Festival Cinémas d'Espagne et d'Amérique latine de Bruxelles (FestCEAL) Nov. 2006.
- Guadalajara International Film Festival. Mexico, March 2007. Official competition
- Leipzig Documentary Film Festival - Muestra Int. de Documentales. Bogota.
- Colombia - Icaro Central American Film Fest - IDFA/ Docs for Sales.
- Ámsterdam - FIPA. Biarritz France. Oficial selection - Cartagena Film
- Festival. Colombia - Belize Int Film Fest - “It’s all true” Documentary Film Festival.
- Brazil - Munich International Film Festival
- DerHumAlc Human Rights Film Festival. Buenos Aires Argentina
- Festival Latinoamericano De Video Rosario. Argentina
- Ethnographic Film Festival. Taipei. Taiwan
- Realities and images of Latin America. Brussels Belgium
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