About the Movie
June 2024. Santa Marta, Colombia.
Our heroine takes part in the Innova-duras graduation seminar, a program aimed at learning new technologies, supported by the Change Maker for kids foundation. A big day for this young girl from working-class neighborhoods, whom we have been following for several months already, since the very first day she decided to enroll in this training, no doubt dreaming of a destiny other than the one that seemed already mapped out.
By collecting her confidences during several interviews spread over the entire training period, as well as the testimonies of students who have already taken this path successfully,the documentary will shed light on the perspectives and obstacles that these young women face every day in the construction of their dreams.
Early pregnancy is the main cause of girls dropping out of school in Colombia: 1 in 5 teenagers between 15 and 19 years old are or have already been a mother.
To shed light on this path, between obstacle and opportunity, we will give the floor to other women too rarely given as an example of possible success: a school principal, an entrepreneur, an influencer, so many faces of a Colombia that is moving forward, and who hopes for another than unemployment or early motherhood as a predestined future.
Being a woman in a changing country
Moreover, in order to better understand the socio-cultural context of this struggle for greater visibility of women and a redistribution of roles, the film will be punctuated with images reflecting daily life in Colombia.
Fifteenth birthday party, carnival, miss contest, religious festivals, salsa concert,so many slices of life revealing cultural, religious and family obstacles to the construction of a more egalitarian society.