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Fly so far / Women Make Movies ; Pråmfilm presents ; in co-production with Sugar Rush Productions, Chimbolo Films, Film i Dalarna ; produced by Mónica Hernández Rejón ; coproduced by Maria Åkesson, Saúl Callejas ; directed by Celina Escher.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Vásquez, Teodoro del Carmen.
- Women prisoners--El Salvador.
- Women prisoners.
- Pregnant women--Legal status, laws, etc--El Salvador.
- Pregnant women.
- Women's rights--El Salvador.
- Women's rights.
- Abortion--Law and legislation--El Salvador.
- Abortion.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (89 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In Spanish and English with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: An Internet browser with HTML5 support.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- As states in the U.S. enact abortion bans, FLY SO FAR serves as a grave warning of how far government control of women's bodies can go. This brave film from Swiss-Salvadorean filmmaker Celina Escher is set in El Salvador, a country with some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, including the criminalization of those who experience miscarriages and other obstetric emergencies. The narrative centers on Teodora del Carmen Vásquez, who was in the ninth month of her second pregnancy when she fainted and suffered a stillbirth. When she woke up at the hospital, she was accused of murder and was sentenced to thirty years in prison for aggravated homicide.
- Participant:
- Featuring Teodora del Carmen Vásquez.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Guillermo Argueta [and 7 others] ; original music, Mahan Mobashery, Nils Bucher ; editing, Matteo Faccenda.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 19, 2022).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-flyfar Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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