One little girl's hunger cry that shook global powers—and they tried to ignore it.
DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hunger of Barbara Flores, an eight-year-old Argentinean girl. Buenos Aires, Washington, the IMF, the World Bank and Davos; corruption and the international bureaucratic lack of interest.
Direction
Lanata chases power like a dog with a bone.
Editing
Cuts between crying child and smirking bankers: devastating.
Director
Jorge Ernesto Lanata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film captures Argentina's 2001 crisis aftermath, when 'corralito' became a household trauma.
Lanata's confrontation tactics influenced a generation of Latin American investigative journalists.
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