Review by samxxxul

It is Quite interesting how foreign festivals consistently love seeing people living in misery and give honors to Asian films depicting poverty and crime: from Mike de leon "Aliwan Paradise" to Lamberto V. Avellana's "Anak Dalita" to Lino Brocka's "Insiang" to Brillante Mendoza's "Kinatay" to Hirokazu Koreeda's "Shoplifters" and to Joon-ho's "Parasite" as the meandering camera is Orientalizing. But here is Vampires Of Poverty (Agarrando Pueblo), a parody movie that called out filmmakers exploiting poverty in Latin America in the 70s, sort of a mock-docu on the practice of pornomiseria (poverty porn) to garner film festival acclaim with CS Lewis "Culture of Poverty" being an underlying element to the entire plot. A pivotal, iconic work of Colombian indie cinema, timeless and must-see manifesto on misery porn by Carlos Mayolo & Luis Ospina who was part of Cali Group influenced by Tercer Cine movement at vanguard of left-wing filmmaking in Latin America.