As the events became the focus of a media furore with an estimated 1 billion
people watching as 24-hour rescue efforts were broadcast around the globe
Nico Munoz was at the mine in Copiapo for the weeks leading up to the final
release operation. He filmed the pressure cooker of the ongoing rescue
efforts in the location on the skirts of the harsh Atacama desert, the over
ground reaction and the emotion of those involved up to and after the
dramatic liberation of ‘the 33′. The events that lifted the world have has
now become one a ‘must have’ on the history reel of broadcasts media’s most
captivating events ever covered.

Buenos Aires, 2010

With the revolutions taking place in the Arab world, potential massive waves of illegal immigrants is once again a major concern in the European Union. But what if other countries attracted these new immigrants? South America is not that far away, after all!

True, Argentina is plagued with economic problems – but so is Europe. It’s still a good destination for African immigrants for one simple reason: it’s easy to get to, and stay in. That’s what Azizi, an illegal immigrant from Senegal settled in Argentina, tells us. His experience here is a positive one; he’s just hoping he can get an Argentine ID to get a better job than his current one, selling cheap jewellery on the streets.

Argentina has a permissive policy regarding immigrants and in the recent years, dozens of immigrants from Senegal, Ivory Coast, or Nigeria have arrived here… and for now, the very white Buenos Aires citizens are welcoming towards this new marginal community… maybe a way for them to cleanse the past? The vast black community living here in the early 20^th century has been eradicated, and the remains of this buoyant culture, especially in the Argentine music, are often unknown.

Cheikh is making a living out of what he calls the “African culture”. He’s a professional musician, and a key member of the very successful Bomba de Tiempo band in Buenos Aires, the unmissable Monday night event in the capital. He hasn’t suffered from racism at all since he’s been here, and nor does Azizi. Just like Azizi, he’s taken on most of Argentine habits: drinking mate, having barbecues… Both of them send out money to their families in Senegal… and both of them now consider Argentina their new home.

Maria Julia – Homeless waste collector…
Maria Julia is already 60 years old, and yet she’s never had a home of her own. She’s spent most of her life living on the streets, under a bridge or in squats, with her 4 children. Her youngest is now 16.
She’s not unemployed however: she’s been working as a recyclable garbage collector for the last 8 years. In charge of a little recyclable waste collecting co-op in one of Buenos Aires’ “chic” neighbourhoods, she collects glass, plastic, newspapers etc helpful neighbours will have gathered up for her. The more the neighbours contribute, the more work there is… and the more people she can hire to help her out. The co-op tries to dignify this collecting job and signed an agreement with the City of Buenos Aires, which still hasn’t put in place an official recyclable waste system.

With this job, Maria Julia makes 300 pesos a week… about 60 Euros. It doesn’t add up to pay rent for her and her son – she would have pretty much nothing left for food. So, for now, she’s living with her eldest son, a mechanic, in one of Buenos Aires suburbs’ poor neighbourhoods.

Maria Julia’s dream is to have a home before she dies. She wants to make sure her kid has a roof to live under before he’s left on his own. That’s why she wrote a letter to President Cristina Kirchner, to ask for help. She wants the State to implement a system that would allow the poor, like Maria Julia, who have no savings whatsoever to acquire a home by paying for it little by little… In a city where, officially, more than 2 million people (out of 14) live in slums, her desperate cry out appears like a lost cause. But she won’t give up and she’s even decided to take the letter herself to the President. She keeps going: she has no other choice. Her son is all she thinks and worries about all day.

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Nowhere in Argentina is recycling a concern for local authorities, and in the city of Buenos Aires like everywhere else, there is no official recycling system running. So every night, the streets fill with “cartoneros”, well-organised people who search the town’s bins for usable or recyclable items. They sell whatever’s recyclable to plants, and carry back home whatever they can use for themselves or their family: used out shoes, footballs, broken umbrellas… since the 2001 economic crisis, the phenomenon keeps increasing. Today, 1 Argentine out of 3 is said to live below the poverty line. But the Cartoneros more often than not leave the streets a mess: they tear open plastic bags to sort through them recyclable materials and leave most of the content of the bag lying, soon dispersed by the wind.

Maria Julia used to be a “cartonera” herself, but what the co-op does is a lot different: they leave the streets clean. And they work during the day. And they have a fix salary.
But this is no job for a 60-year-old. The bags are heavy, and pushing the cart in the Buenos Aires summer heat is no easy task. But she keeps going. She has no choice. Her son is all she thinks and worries about all day.
Everything they collect goes to the recycling warehouse, where Cristina is in charge. Cristina is a friend of Maria Julia’s; together they founded the Ceibo co-op.

Possible sequences:
1.Maria Julia at work, collecting recyclable materials, organising rounds for employees, employees helping out, etc…
2.Everyday she gets up at 5 am to catch the bus and be at work by 7. She’s in charge of preparing the collecting rounds for each of her 5 employees. Once they’ve all left for their rounds, she goes off to collecting glass and plastic bottles, newspapers, cardboard boxes neighbours sort out for her. Some of them tell us why it is important for them to contribute.
3.Cartoneros and people living on the streets
4.Maria Julia reading her letter to the President
5.Maria Julia taking her letter to President Cristina Kirchner
6.Maria Julia at the doctor’s
7.Maria Julia with her 16-year-old son
8.At the recycling warehouse, with Cristina, Maria Julia’s longtime friend and co-founder of the Ceibo co-op

Buenos Aires, 2010

With the revolutions taking place in the Arab world, potential massive waves of illegal immigrants is once again a major concern in the European Union. But what if other countries attracted these new immigrants? South America is not that far away, after all!

True, Argentina is plagued with economic problems – but so is Europe. It’s still a good destination for African immigrants for one simple reason: it’s easy to get to, and stay in. That’s what Azizi, an illegal immigrant from Senegal settled in Argentina, tells us. His experience here is a positive one; he’s just hoping he can get an Argentine ID to get a better job than his current one, selling cheap jewellery on the streets.

Argentina has a permissive policy regarding immigrants and in the recent years, dozens of immigrants from Senegal, Ivory Coast, or Nigeria have arrived here… and for now, the very white Buenos Aires citizens are welcoming towards this new marginal community… maybe a way for them to cleanse the past? The vast black community living here in the early 20^th century has been eradicated, and the remains of this buoyant culture, especially in the Argentine music, are often unknown.

Cheikh is making a living out of what he calls the “African culture”. He’s a professional musician, and a key member of the very successful Bomba de Tiempo band in Buenos Aires, the unmissable Monday night event in the capital. He hasn’t suffered from racism at all since he’s been here, and nor does Azizi. Just like Azizi, he’s taken on most of Argentine habits: drinking mate, having barbecues… Both of them send out money to their families in Senegal… and both of them now consider Argentina their new home.

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SHOTLIST

1. Wide aerial giant barbecue
2. Mid shot of barbecue chefs preparing giant forks of meat over fire
3. Close of meat cooking
4. Mid of barbecue chef hammering giant cooking fork into ground
5. Mid of people looking on
6. Soundbite: (Spanish) Ricardo Ardengue, Barbecue Chef, General Pico, Argentina
“To take it off of them, to take it off the Uruguayans and to keep it here in La Pampa (the province) I really think thats the best, thats the best that we can have today. We are not worried about the time, or the heat, no we are not worried about anything. We are here to beat the record and nothing more.”
7. Mid of barbecue cooks cutting the meat on the table
8. Close of meat being cut
9. Mid of barbecue chef with cut meat on knife and eating it
10. Mid pan of soldiers taking meat of table and placing it in trailer
11. Wide of giant barbecue as meat cooks away in smokey barbecue atmosphere
12. Close of Guinness World Record Association Representant observing process
13. Close of Guinness Representant holding folder and making a note
14. Close of weighing scales moving
15. Mid of Guinness Represetant and weighing scales operator weighing meat
16. Wide of tractor and trailer full of meat exiting weighing area
17. Soundbite: (Spanish) Ralph Hannah, Guinness World Record Represent, General Pico, Argentina
“So today they needed to pass that number of 12,000, they are on 13,713, so it will be a record but what they need to do now is get all the people, there’s 20,000 people here in General Pico to eat all the meat and then we’ll have a new record.”
18. Wide of men taking meat off back of truck
19. Close of meat being cut
20. Mid of man cutting and eating meat
21. Wide of family sitting at table in picnic area all gathered together eating plates of food
22. Soundbite: (Spanish) Maria Gallina, , General Pico, Argentina
“We feel more Piquence’s (resident of General Pico) than ever and hopefully we are going to repeat or we’ll come back and beat it next year, if gods wants it to be we will even break our own record.”
23. Close of little girl chewing on a bone of meat

CUE

Boca Juniors is the most famous football team in Argentina and in spite of the bad situation that is going through, loyal fans still follow the team even after death.

Boca Juniors football club, in Buenos Aires…

On a typical Sunday, a riot of noise and colour emerges from the Bombonera stadium: Boca Fans are renowned to be the most passionate supporters in the world.

And some of them bring that passion to an extreme… by being buried in a coffin designed to their team’s colours, blue and yellow.

A lucrative business for the Diegues Company, which has been in the Coffin designing industry for three decades. The idea came to them when they heard about Boca fans being buried in the team’s shirt.

SOUNDBITE
“We try to introduce something new in design, an alternative from spooky, black, grey or sad coffins. The company has brought the idea and we’ve started working.”

Carlos Gerez is in charge of the final touches, offering the clients a panel of options to decorate their coffin.

He is not a Boca fan himself, and sees all of this with an ironic eye.

SOUNDBITE
“It is said Boca fans are half plus one… I don’t want anybody die but I hope we always have enough work. Well, as they are doing bad in the Championship, we’ll have a lot of work.”

Fans do not only enjoy a customized coffin – they also have a special spot reserved for them at the Parque Iraola cemetery, a spot unique in the world… 33km south of Buenos Aires.

Way too far from the Boca neighbourhood for some supporters, who will prefer another option : having their ashes spread at the very place where they express their passion for their team: the Bombonera stadium itself.

SOUNDBITE
“Look here you have some ashes… Look…”

This is totally prohibited, but the passion knows no boundaries.

SOUNDBITE
“This is the last wish of my father or grandfather, he wanted his ashes on the pitch. So, despite the ban, they come and spread them.”

This is making Amadeo Loria and Carlos Bottaro’s work harder. They are in charge of keeping the pitch green, beautiful and without any flaw… a real challenge

SOUNDBITE
“It’s impossible to control, to look at every single person getting in the stadium. In a month, there may be sixty or seventy thousand visits.”

But for Boca fans, it’s yellow and blue for life and death.

SHOTLIST:
1. Pan Left of Boca Stadium
2. Various shots of Coffins factory during the assembly process.
3. Set up Shot of Carlos Gerez painter of Boca’s Coffins
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish), Carlos Gerez, Painter of Diegues Company,
“We try to introduce something new in design, an alternative from spooky, black, grey or sad coffins. The company has brought the idea and we’ve started working.”
5. Close up of Gerez’s hands cleaning a tap
6. Close up of Carlos Gerez face with a poster of Independiente (Argentina soccer team) at the back
7. Close up of Independiente’s poster on the wall
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish), Carlos Gerez, Painter of Diegues Company,
“It is said Boca fans are half plus one… I don’t want anybody die but I hope we always have enough work. Well, as they are doing bad in the Championship, we’ll have a lot of work.”
9.Various shots of Carlos Gerez finishing one of the coffins
10.Close up of a coffin with Boca’s logo
11.Wide shot of Parque Iraola Cemetery’s church
12.Various shots of aspects of the Boca’s place within the cemetery
13.Medium shot of one of the wall with the names of the Boca’s dead
14.Wide shot Boca Stadium during a tour visit
15.SOUNDBITE: (Spanish), Amadeo Loria, Engineer of the Maintenance Department of Boca’s Stadium
“Look here you have some ashes… Look…”
16. Various close up of the ashes
17.SOUNDBITE: (Spanish), Amadeo Loria, Engineer of the Maintenance Department of Boca’s Stadium
“This is the last wish of my father or grandfather, he wanted his ashes on the pitch. So, despite the ban, they come and spread them.”
18.Various Set ups of Amadeo Loria in Stadium
19.SOUNDBITE: (Spanish), Amadeo Loria, Engineer of the Maintenance Department of Boca’s Stadium
“It’s impossible to control, to look at every single person getting in the stadium. In a month, there may be sixty or seventy thousand visits.”
20.Close up of one of the visitors looking to the pitch
21.Close shot of Boca’s symbol behind the fence
22.Various of the sun set through the stadium