'Black Shine' marks Maza's follow-up to 'State of Silence,' a impactful passion project of Diego Luna, awarded Best Feature at Chile’s top festival, Sanfic in 2024
\n\nMexico’s Santiago Maza, whose fourth feature-length doc “State of Silence,” (“Estado de Silencio”), a passion project of Diego Luna, snagged the best feature award at Chile’s 2024 Santiago Film Festival (Sanfic), has premiered his latest work, “Black Shine” (“El brillo negro”) at the Morelia Film Festival where it competes for the top prize among the multiple short films in competition.
\n\nSet in Coahuila’s coal-mining region in Mexico, “Black Shine” revisits the 2006 Pasta de Conchos mine explosion that buried 65 miners. Two decades later, after years of neglect and impunity, families continue their fight for the recovery of their loved ones.
\n\nLike “State of Silence,” which centers on the high death count of reporters in Mexico through the lives of four journalists, “Black Shine” focuses on two people in particular: El Güero, a former miner who has recovered his brother’s remains, and Elvira, still waiting for her husband. The doc portrays grief as an enduring act of resistance and a refusal to let those lost beneath the earth be forgotten.
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