Just as “Presunto Culpable” tackled Mexico’s flawed judicial system, a new documentary is confronting the serious deficiencies of education in this country.
Directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo (the son of a noted Jalisco author) and journalist Carlos Loret de Mola, “De Panzazo” (roughly meaning “Barely Passing”) lays bare the harsh realities of both public and private education in Mexico.
Three years in the making, the film examines the education system from the daily lives of students and teachers to the offices of union leaders and the upper echelons of Mexico’s education authorities.
“We wanted to give a voice to the people,” says Rulfo, of the documentary which includes interviews with students and teachers filmed in a dozen schools across Mexico, from Ciudad Juarez to the mountains of Chiapas. The filmmakers also gave cameras to the students, who captured images of broken classroom windows and teachers talking on cellphones during classes.
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