Raúl de la Fuente, director of 'Minerita' believes that “the documentary is going to go further because there are more intense themes than in fiction”

The Goya for best short documentary portrays the hard life of women in the mines of Bolivia where they fight to survive in a hell not suitable for life.

Raúl de la Fuente has known how to portray Mining the hard life of women in the mines of Bolivia in a documentary that has been recognized with the Goya for Best Short Documentary. For this filmmaker "the documentary format is very attractive because it means that you can go to Bolivia for a month, look for the women, shoot the story and in another month have the story finished. I needed this type of shot, short format or pill."

Cerro Rico de Potosí (Bolivia) is a lawless territory of brutal violence. Here miners risk their lives in dilapidated galleries to extract silver and zinc. Those who come out alive believe they have the right to everything. Then, the hunt for women begins. Minerita is the story of three women, Lucía (40), Ivone (16) and Abigail (17) who work as night watchmen or inside the mine and fight to survive in a hell not suitable for life. His only weapon, courage... and dynamite.

When the box office looks for entertainment or comedy, Raúl de la Fuente opts for a hard subject because "as soon as I learned about this story, I felt the need to make a film with these miners. So I don't think about whether it's something commercial or not. I just know that I love it and I want to tell it and I want to do it in the most beautiful way possible or the hardest possible and for it to be a good movie. I don't think about whether we are in a commercial era or not. I just try to follow my instinct."

Raúl de la Fuente dares to venture that "the documentary is going to go further. Fiction contributes a lot but the documentary, especially if approached from an artistic approach, contributes much more because reality always surpasses fiction. There are themes that are much stronger and more intense than in fiction."

Raúl de la Fuente has been a film and television producer, director and scriptwriter since 1996. After working in different audiovisual production companies, he founded Kanaki Films to launch his own projects. He is the director and screenwriter of the feature film Nömadak Tx, the most awarded Spanish documentary film at international festivals in 2007. He is currently directing the feature film One more day alive, based on the work of the same title by Ryszard Kapuscinski.