Countdown begins for Netflix premiere ‘You Are Not Alone: Fighting Against the Herd’, New documentary film reconstructing the case that created the first Spanish #MeToo, which will take place next Friday, March 1.
The starting point of the sexual assault of a young woman in Sanfermines in 2016 by five men who called themselves “La Manada”, the feature film goes hand in hand with the words of the surviving victims, along with Natalia de Molina and Carolina. Yuste as the narrator and people close to the events who share their testimonies for the first time.
Governing Almudena Carracedo and Robert BaharThis documentary film, prepared by the producers of the film ‘The Silence of Others’, which won a Goya, two Emmys, a Peabody award and was nominated for an Oscar in 2019, has been secretly produced for more than three and a half years. The feature film intertwines three events: Pamplona caseThe attack in Pozoblanco -committed by four of the same defendants- and Nagore’s murder In 2008, Laffage reached the first Spanish-language #MeToo, until in 2018 a million women and young people appealed to the power of sisterhood, taking to the streets shouting “I believe in you” and spreading the hashtag #Cuéntalo on social networks. ‘You Are Not Alone: The Fight Against La Manada’ gradually exposes the seams of machismo in justice, media and society through this story, shedding light on the sexual violence that many women experience every day and the responsibility for it individually and collectively. This is a universal problem.
“We set out to make a film that could tell this story in some way. A hitherto unknown perspective, although it is the version supported by all judicial decisions: the perspective of victim survivors. “With his words taken from judicial statements, interviews and letters, and unprecedented access to people close to the events, we were able to tell this story with meticulousness, sensitivity and respect,” he explains in the documentary.
Robert Bahar, co-director of the documentary, adds: “The film consists of over sixty hours of carefully shot interviews, fifty hours of original footage, and nearly a thousand hours of archival material, assembled with film sensibility. In doing so, he explores the legal processes and media treatment of documentary participants as well as “Advice from experts on gender violence was also important.”
The documentary film conveys the meticulousness of extensive research with an artistic and cinematographic approach. The music composed for a feature film is an important and complex creative element. Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar are adding Leo Heiblum and Jacobo Lieberman, the composers of the music of their previous film “El Silencio de Otro”, who won four Arieles awards in Mexico, to the cast for the second time.