El Documental del mes - EL PODER DE LA PALABRA - el Documental del mes

Hardy Vallejos works selling every class of cheap objects in the middle of the yellow chaos of the buses of the Santiago of 2005. But when the government announces the intention to forbid the job in order to change the city’s image to the world, Hardy and his colleagues organize the biggest active trade union of Santiago. More than two thousand workers join themselves to preserve their place in the new system of transports, and soon they will realize that they will only be listened if they incorporate the weapons of modernity: they must have a uniform, create a corporative image, and learn to sell their guild demands in a touchy and convincing way. A unique story of professional collective awareness and, at the same time, a portrait full of humor of the Chilean city and its population.

Francisco Hervé has a degree in Journalism and has also graduated in Direction, at the International School of Cinema and Television, in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Nowadays he works as a scriptwriter and director in the Chilean television, and he develops independent projects.

Among his works for television stands out the co-direction of the series En tu lugar, broadcasted by Canal 13 and nominated to the Altazor Award, and the script of Barrio Rojo for the TV film series of Heredia & Asociados. Hervé is also the director of the series Ciudadano K, rewarded by the CNTV 2005.

Micro: cuestión de escala and La península de los volcanes, awarded with the Pudú to the Best Documentary in the International Festival of Cinema of Valdivia, are his personal projects with a wider recognition.

> Special award of the jury - FIDOCS, Chile, 2009

> Movie City Prize - Vote of the Public, International Festival of Cinema of Valdivia, 2009.

> Santiago International Festival of Cinema (SANFIC5), Chile, 2009.