On TV: I WILL BE MURDERED

Coming to PBS’s Global Voices on the WORLD Channel this Sunday, June 15: I WILL BE MURDERED

Justin Webster’s unusual story of Guatemalan death and politics debuted at Guatemala’s Memoria, Verdad, Justicia fest last year. It went on to screen at Hot Docs, Madrid’s Documenta, Traverse City, Lima, Sao Paulo, Tallgrass, Chicago, Antenna, Denver, Havana, and Cartagena, among others.

I previously wrote about the film in my Hot Docs coverage for Indiewire, saying:
Shortly before his death, Guatemalan attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg, whose clients were recently assassinated, recorded a video accusing President Alvaro Colom of his murder. After his execution, his confidante released the video and it became a nationwide sensation, leading to calls for Colom to resign. Public pressure forced an in-depth investigation in a country where 98% of murders go unsolved, but what the head of the taskforce found is wholly unexpected. Justin Webster crafts an investigative documentary that humanizes its victim even as it reveals genuinely surprising details about his case. Despite its twists and turns, the various nefarious figures that pop up, and the competing theories thrown in and out, Webster maintains a clarity of storytelling that might all too easily have become a muddled mess in other hands. What results is an absolutely stranger than fiction tale of lives cut short by corruption and secrets, and a demonstration of the power of the public to demand an end to impunity for even its highest elected officials.