‘State of Silence’ Documentary from Executive Producers Diego Luna & Gael García Bernal Coming to Netflix
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 10: (L-R) Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna attend the "State Of Silence" Premiere during the 2024 Tribeca Festival at SVA Theater on June 10, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)
A new documentary focusing on the challenges of freedom of the press in Mexico is coming to Netflix on October 17th. State of Silence, by director Santiago Maza and executive produced by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, will follow the testimonies of four journalists from different parts of Mexico and explore their lives after receiving threats due to their reporting.
“We journalists sometimes say we are the voice when we are really a loudspeaker,” the trailer for the documentary begins in Spanish, with images and sounds of the violence in Mexico and interviews talking about how Mexican journalists have been put in danger because of their reporting are interspersed. “When you kill a journalist, you kill society’s right to be informed,” someone says later in the trailer.
“In Mexico, there’s a war against those who seek the truth,” the trailer spells out as more interviews are heard.
The four journalists the documentary will focus on are Juan de Dios García, María de Jesús Peters, Marcos Vizcarra, and Jesús Medina. The documentary is also set to feature other well-known media professionals, all coming together to discuss the risks reporting the truth sometimes entails.
State of Silence premiered this year at the Sheffield Film Festival (UK), Tribeca International Film Festival (USA), and the Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico), among others. It won Best Feature Film at the Santiago International Film Festival (Chile). Luna and García Bernal’s production company, La Corriente del Golfo, is behind the documentary. Santiago Maza and Joris Debeij also produced the documentary.
Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal recently reunited for the Hulu show La Máquina, which premiered on October 9th. The show follows an aging boxer (Gael García Bernal) and his manager (Diego Luna) going for one last shot at the title.
Watch the trailer for State of Silence (Estado de silencio) below.
