Agarrando pueblo / Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês
“In the early 1970’s there appeared a certain type of documentary that superficially appropriated the achievements and methodologies of independent film to the point of deformation. in this way, poverty became a shocking theme and a product easily sold, especially abroad, where it is the counterpart to the opulence of consumption... We made a kind of antidote or Mayakovskian bath to open people’s eyes to the exploitation behind the miserabilist cinema which turns human beings into objects, into instruments of a discourse foreign to their own condition.” (Carlos Mayolo & luis Ospina)
“The government broadly financed historical films, but it wanted the history to be within official parameters – the hero, the father of the country, all those things we have been told since elementary school. I made How Tasty Was my little Frenchman, which does not correspond in any way to the of- ficial vision of history, under these circumstances. The film was not even considered to be historical, but rather purely fictional, as if official history were not fiction.” (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)