Scene from Surco

AL FINAL DEL SURCO
AT THE END OF THE FURROW

Directed by Miguel Salgado

Mexico, Docu-Drama, 10 min.

Metropolitan 11

Sunday, April 22, 4 PM

Moisés and his son Antonio are Mexican farmers on the road to sell their maize on the day of the Aguas Blancas Slaughter. The massacre of June 28, 1995, was one of the worst incidents in the recent history of  rural Mexico. Archival footage from the actual massacre is spliced into the narrative.

Miguel Salgado was born in Mexico City in 1977. He received  his Master’s Degree in Social Communication from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Metropolitan  Autonomous University), where he made his documentary El rostro de la multitud (The Crowd’s Face). He is currently in his third year of study at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Cinematographic Capacitation Center -CCC). Al final del surco (At the End of the Furrow) is the first short film he created at this

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Producer: Inti Aldasoro, Karina Blanco

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Screenwriter: Miguel Salgado

Cinematographer: Barbaro Ochoa