CQ17 Interview: SUPER AMIGOS
This doc by filmmaker and sociologist Arturo Perez Torrez, looks at a new (rather new-ish) form of activism taking place in Mexico today. Donning costumes made famous by the Lucha Libra Luchadors so popular in Mexico, these activists are like living super-heroes, working for local and global change, anonymous as superman and pudgy as Santa Claus. Well, except for Super Gay, he’s svelte. Alternatively legendary and effectual, these activists are the perpetual icons of populace change: their identities, like their origin stories, are beautifully mythologized by the people they help and by the filmmaker (and his animator) who represent them.
Great, great doc.
Super Amigos showed at CineQuest Film Festival 17.
Interview with Arturo Perez Torrez, Director of the documentary Super Amigos