Sebastian Moreno - The City of Photographers

A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.

The documentary The City of Photographers tells the hidden story of a generation of independent photographers that worked for foreign media during the 80´s in Chile. Through the voice of them, including photographer José Moreno, father of the filmmaker,
we will get to know their work and the social and political context of those years, which was used as an inspiration to them.
(source : http://www.idfa.nl )

Sebastian Moreno Mardones’s documentary examines the legacy of Chilean photojournalists who risked death to record life under Pinochet’s brutal regime.

During Pinochet’s long regime, a motley crew of photojournalists shot and framed Chile’s people and turmoil from many points of view.

In the streets, in the middle of bloody riots and protests, these fearless photographers learned their craft and created many of the now legendary images which helped focus world attention on the Pinochet regime’s repressive tactics.

Pinochet had the power and the guns, but these photographers had the camera – the people’s weapon. They lived dangerously and they lived to tell. This is their story.
(source : http://www.dochouse.org )