Dan Fallshaw (Australian) and Violeta Ayala (Bolivian/Australian)
The Fight
Filmed in Bolivia, April - August 2016
Produced in collaboration with the Sundance Institute Short Documentary Fund and John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Broadcast by The Guardian
People with disabilities are among the most discriminated against in Bolivia. Dan and Violeta’s film follows a determined group of activists as they cross the Andes into the country’s capital, La Paz, to lobby for improved rights and benefits. They capture violent scenes as the protesters in wheelchairs set up camp a block away from the city’s main plaza and are met by riot shields, tear gas and water canon. For the first time in Bolivia’s history, police erect three meter high barricades, station tanks and hundreds of riot officers to stop the protesters from entering the plaza. The story of an extraordinary fight between a government and a group of citizens.
