Igualada

With unprecedented access, director Juan Mejía Botero paints a powerful portrait of trailblazing Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez as she runs a rousing campaign speaking truth to power, faces death threats, and lives her life in the eye of the storm.

In Colombia, a nation marred by profound racial and socio-economic disparities, a Black woman from a rural background challenges the status quo by launching a presidential campaign. Reappropriating the term “igualada,” Francia Márquez, catapults a movement to the upper echelons of power, by refusing to “know her place.” Fifteen years in the making, this documentary peels back the curtain on how unprecedented change can happen.