After the homicide of her husband, the people singer Victor Jara, in the middle of the navy coup in Chile in September 1973, Joan Jara returned to Britain along with her two younger youngsters. Stanley Forman, a distributor of leftwing documentaries, provided to finance and produce a brief movie that mates hoped may ease a number of the strain on Joan’s life, and he requested me to direct it.
Filming interviews then concerned reloading the digicam with contemporary movie each 10 minutes – a course of that might wreck efforts to construct up a way of connection. In 9 minutes, with no break, Joan detailed the circumstances that led to Victor’s demise.
That testimony grew to become the heartbeat of a 50-minute documentary, Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile (1975), screened in Britain by Thames Tv, and a part of Joan’s decades-long marketing campaign to hunt out and problem her husband’s murderers and the destroyers of Salvador Allende’s Standard Unity authorities.
