Acting Lessons
2012 / 25 min. / 25 minutes / 2012 / For Al Jazeera VIEWFINDER / Country of production: Colombia / Directed by: MANUEL F CONTRERAS Editing: ANDRÉS PORRAS Producer: RUSS FINKELSTEIN Cinematography: MANUEL F CONTRERAS Sound Design and Mix: ISABEL TORRES Commissioning Editor: JEAN GARNER
"I have always been surrounded by poverty and it was poverty that stole what was most precious to me." Maria is fighting back. After 10 years of poverty, prostitution, drugs and crime, she is turning her life around through theatre, expressing her past experiences and helping others to leave prostitution.