The Death of Jaime Roldós

(La muerte de Jaime Roldós)

Lisandra I. Rivera , Manolo Sarmiento / Argentina, Ecuador / 2013 / 125 min
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  • New Latin American Cinema Film Festival of La Habana

    Best Documentary and Memory Prize

  • Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse

    Best Documentary ex aequo

  • LAKINO Latin American Film Festival Berlin

    Best Latin American Documentary

  • Chicago Latino Film Festival

    Best Documentary Audience Award

  • FILMAR en América Latina, Ginebra, Switzerland

    Best Documentary Audience Award

  • Barranquilla International Film Festival, Colombia

    Best Latin American Film

  • DocsBarcelona

    Audience Award

  • Atlantidoc, Uruguay

    Best Documentary and Best Screenplay

  • Other Cinema Encounters, Quito, Ecuador

    Audience Award
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Spanish with English subtitles

The history of Ecuador was shaken in 1981 by the sudden death of President Jaime Roldós and his wife Martha Bucaram in a suspicious plane crash.

Described by Gabriel García Márquez as a “president with a generous heart,” Roldós had sought the democratic leadership of a continent that was subject to the power of brutal military dictatorships.

The film examines his two deaths: the probable conspiracy generated by his policy of Human Rights advocacy in the continent, and the Shakespearean drama of his three children, faced with the manipulated image of their parents by a populist party created by members of their own family.

After thirty years of silence, combining investigative journalism and film essay, the film leads us to discover a surprising and unknown chapter in the history of Latin America that resonates deeply in the present.

Now, thanks to the new lines of investigation laid out by The Death of Jaime Roldós, the attorney general of Ecuador, Galo Chiriboga, has decided to reopen the case. Perhaps there are no longer people to accuse, but it remains essential to rethink the historical process, to look back at the past in order to try to construct a different present.

Press

“The Death of Jaime Roldós by Lisandra Rivera and Manolo Sarmiento, about the death of Ecuador's president, has been integral to the success of Ecuadorian cinema on a local and international scale.” – Gary M. Kramer, INDIEWIRE

“The award-winning The Death of Jaime Roldós delves into the mystery behind the plane crash that killed Roldos, Ecuador’s president from 1979 to 1981. It has forced the re-opening of the case.” – Anna Marie de la Fuente, VARIETY

About the Directors
Lisandra I. Rivera was born in Puerto Rico in 1966. She has worked as producer, executive producer, and line producer for various Ecuadorian films including Ratas, ratones, rateros (1999) and Pescador (2011), by Sebastián Cordero. She is the co-founder and former Artistic Director of the EDOC Documentary Film Festival. During 2013-2014 she was the coordinator of the Technical Unit of DOCTV’s Latin American co-production program. She currently directs the Film Program at UArtes in Ecuador
Manolo Sarmiento was born in Ecuador in 1967. He is a filmmaker, lawyer, and journalist. He co-directed the documentary film Personal Matters (2002), with Lisandra I. Rivera. He is also de co-founder and current Executive Director of the EDOC Documentary Film Festival.
Notes on Film

We had known Santiago Roldós for a few years when we talked for the first time about the death of his parents. He told us that he was willing to break the silence that he and his sisters had felt forced to assume years before. We thought that perhaps this double mourning, that of the people and that of the siblings contained the clue to understanding the historical meaning of Roldós for Ecuador and for Latin America.

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