Santiago Esteinou, a Mexican filmmaker, was awarded a $5,000 grant for his project La Libertad de Fierro (The Freedom of Fierro).

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Cesar Fierro has just become a free man and must reconstruct his life after being wrongly sentenced to death for 40 years. He spent most of his adult life in the Polunsky Unit, a prison that kept inmates in total isolation, deprived of any physical contact with other humans. César’s arrival in Mexico City is the beginning of a journey to heal and rebuild himself. His new existence confronts him with his own limitations, but he is determined to find true freedom.