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My Choice. The Freedom Train

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My Choice. The Freedom Train
Directed byCollective work
Produced byCollective of women filmmakers against the reform of the abortion law
Music byLa Solfonica [es]
Edited byTeresa Font
Color processColor
Release date
  • 10 July 2014 (2014-July-10) (Spain)
Running time
42
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

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Draft:My Choice. The Freedom Train (Spanish: Yo decido. El tren de la libertad) is a 2014 Spanish collective documentary filmed by 80 filmmakers.[1] It focuses on a massive protest in Spain against the reform of the abortion law promoted by Minister Ruíz-Gallardón and the Partido Popular, called El tren de la libertad.[2][3][4] Among the filmmakers who created the Collective of women filmmakers against the reform of the abortion law are Icíar Bollaín, Isabel Coixet or Esther García, produrer at El Deseo.[5][6][7]

The premiere was held simultaneously in 90 Spanish cities and then also at international festivals such as the Sant Sebastian International Film Festival.[8][9][10]

Background[edit]

Further information: El tren de la libertad and Abortion in Spain

In 2010, the socialist government led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero reformed the Law of Abortion originally passed by the Congress of Deputies on December 19, 2009, which decriminalized abortion during the first fourteen weeks.[11] The law was passed on July 5, 2010, replacing the Ley Orgánica 9/1985.[12] The conservative Partido Popular filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in June 2010, and included the modification of the law as part of their 2011 electoral platform.[13][14][15]

Synopsis[edit]

In late 2013, the conservative-led Spanish government led by Mariano Rajoy proposed dramatically restricting access to abortion in the country.[16][17] Faced with this news, a small group of Asturian women led a movilisation, causing hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country to travel to Madrid by train, joining a massive demonstration and even reaching other world capitals.[18][19][20]

The documentary collects testimonies from women who during the transition to Spanish democracy fought for their right to decide and who are now driven to do so again by their daughters and granddaughters.[21][22][23]

Production[edit]

Georgina Cisquella at the Demonstration of El tren de la libertad

Development[edit]

Film critic Pilar Aguilar [ca; es; eu] contacted some filmmakers with the proposal of the film and the filmmaker Chus Gutiérrez sent a message to dozens of professional colleagues 15 days before the demonstration on February 1, 2014.[24] Esther García, produrer at El Deseo led the production team.[25][26]

Filming[edit]

The teams immediately began to organize themselves first to film and later to organize the material, prepare the editing and obtain funding.[27][28][29]

80 filmmakers spread over more than 20 filming units that February 1st. Each unit was centered on a group that arrived in Madrid from various parts of Spain. The film was financed through crowdfunding.[30][31]

Editing[edit]

Around 80 filmmakers shot over 200 hours of material and right after the demonstration filmmakers were downloading the footage at the agreed DIT point in Paseo del Prado, were a group of volunteers with laptops and HDDs collected most of the material. Cloud storage was afterwards facilitated for those who had to leave before delivering rushes.[32][33][34]

The editor Teresa Font with a small team organised the material and edited from the facilities of El Deseo PC.[35]

The large amount of footage, and the fact that the filmmakers were "in a sense looking at it for the first time" meant that the film's structure only became clear during editing.[36][37][38] Ana Díez, director, said about this:

Since we first saw the footage we realized that it was speaking for itself, the people who made their statements on camera are very clear why they are mobilizing, they are very aware of the cuts in rights that we are suffering. The strength, clarity and dignity of his postures only required a structure, a good pulse to unite the images and rescue the sense of rhythm that the events implied. We realized we were dealing with a music documentary. Since the women of Asturias decided to put lyrics and music to their demands and get on the train, the percussions of the samba music celebrated in the streets that mark the rhythm of the march, the songs of La Solfónica that help to choreograph the assembly, the slogans chanted by the demonstrators and the voices of indignation emitted by the people who accompanied the whole route of the demonstration.

[39]

Crew[edit]

Filmmaker in El tren de la libertad.

Around 80 filmmakers participated in the filming of the documentary and they created the Collective of women filmmakers against the reform of the abortion law, among them Icíar Bollaín, Elisa Coll, Laura del Sol, Daniela Fejerman, Patricia Ferreira, Amparo Fortuny, Esther García, Ángeles González-Sinde, Chus Gutiérrez, Chelo Loureiro [ca; es; gl], Mabel Lozano, Alicia Luna, Laura Mañá, Nieves Maroto, Paula Ortiz, Gracia Querejeta, Patricia Roda, Alba Sotorra, Carla Subirana [ca; es; eu], Irlanda Tambascio, Virginia Yagüe, Lydia Zimmermann.[40]

Release, reception and legacy[edit]

Tens of thousands of people participated in the mobilization of the Freedom Train.[41][42][43] At the time it was considered the largest feminist protest in the history of Spain.[44][45][46]

The premiere of the documentary was held simultaneously in 90 Spanish cities[47][48][49] and was screened internationally in film festivals like San Sebastian International Film Festival.[50][51][52]

As a consequence of The Feedom Train movement, the Spanish government had to abandone plans to tighten abortion law, ending months of speculation and prompting Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, the justice minister and architect of the abortion proposal, to resign, charged with enacting some of the toughest legislation on the issue in Europe.[53][54][55]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Bermudez, Silvia; Geist, Anthony L. (28 May 2019). Cartographies of Madrid. ISBN 9780826522160. Search this book on
  2. ↑ "Spain government backs tougher abortion law". BBC News. December 20, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Spain's Alarming Abortion Debate". The New York Times. January 17, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  4. ↑ Kassam, Ashifa (January 31, 2014). "Spanish abortion bill expected to spark massive protest". The Guardian. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Festival Extremadoc 2014". El Periódico. October 22, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Yo decido. El tren de la libertad". Time Out.
  7. ↑ Bermudez, Silvia; Johnson, Roberta (5 February 2018). A New History of Iberian Feminisms. ISBN 9781487510299. Search this book on
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  9. ↑ Laura Fraile. Último Cero (2023-03-17). "Valladolid se suma a las 90 ciudades españolas donde se estrenará el documental 'Yo decido. El Tren de la Libertad´". Ultimocero (in español). Retrieved 2016-01-18.
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  11. ↑ Garea, Fernando (December 17, 2009). "El Congreso aprueba la reforma de la ley del aborto". El País. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
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  13. ↑ "Protesta frente a embajada española en argentina contra reforma del aborto". La Vanguardia (in español). 2014-01-30. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
  14. ↑ "Spain abortion: Rajoy scraps tighter law". BBC. September 23, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  15. ↑ Minder, Raphael (January 19, 2014). "Thousands of pro-abortion protesters gather in Spain". The New York Times. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
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  19. ↑ "Spanish abortion law prompts women's group protests". BBC. February 3, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
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  24. ↑ "Ficha en Filmaffinity". Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  25. ↑ Luna, Alicia (2014-01-26). "Yo decido. El tren de la libertad". Huffingtonpost (in español). Retrieved 2023-03-02.
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