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, 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.

After spending two years in Oaxaca, producing her previous film, Granito de Arena, Freidberg returned to Oaxaca, in 2006, to tell the story of the people who put their lives on the line to give a voice to their struggle. Narrated almost entirely with recordings from the occupied media outlets, A Little Bit of So Much Truth delivers a breathtaking, intimate account of the revolution that WAS televised.

AWARDS :

• Grand Prize, International Documentary Film Festival 2008, Santiago, Cuba
• Special Jury Prize, International Documentary Film Festival Tres Continentes, Caracas, Venezuela 2008
• Grand Prize. Miradas en el Movimiento Concurso. Oaxaca, Mexico 2008
• First Prize, Todas Las Voces Contra El Silencio 2008 Movimientos Sociales y Organización Ciudadana, Mexico City, Mexico

REVIEWS:

A tour de force of documentary filmmaking. Brilliantly conceived and executed.
- David Barsamian, Alternative Radio

A beautiful, terrifying, and very hopeful film.
- Jeff Sharlet, Rolling Stone Magazine

An exceptional film.
- Robert McChesney

Go see this movie! It is terrific!-
Willamette Week

Beautiful, powerful, dramatic...magnificent. Everyone interested in Mexico...in the state of our world and the struggle for social justice should see this film.
- Mexican Labor News and Analysis

Every bit as powerful and effective as the renowned documentary about the coup in Venezuela, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Only in this case, in Oaxaca, it was.
- Narco News

Powerful...impressive. An essential testimony. Without a doubt, A Little Bit of So Much Truth will leave it’s mark on contemporary, independent documentary.
- Emir Sader, CLACSO

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