Corrugated Films, in collaboration with Mal de Ojo TV, presents the NYC premiere of "A Little Bit of So Much Truth" (Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad).

When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media...they TOOK the media.
NYC Screenings:

Nov 7th
6 PM
Cantor Film Center (36 E 8th St)
Free Admission
Filmmaker in Attendance

In the summer of 2006, a non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.

But it was the people's use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.

A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of schoolteachers, housewives, farmers, health workers, and students took over 14 radio stations and one TV station, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

After spending two years in Oaxaca, producing Granito de Arena, Seattle filmmaker Jill Freidberg returned to Oaxaca in 2006, and joined forces with Oaxacan media collective Mal de Ojo TV, to tell the story of the people who put their lives on the line to give a voice to their struggle.

Narrated with audio and video recordings from the occupied media outlets, the film delivers a breath-taking, intimate account of a year that changed Mexico forever, and raises important questions about the role of the media in the 21st century.

More information at www.corrugate.org