Looney Radio ( LT 22 Radio La Colifata ) ( Radio La Colifata )

Looney Radio (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: LT 22 Radio La Colifata
Alternate Title: Radio La Colifata
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
94 min + 30 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Valentina Monti
Mirta Morrone

Written By:
Valentina Monti

Actors:
Valentina Monti
Mirta Morrone

Synopsis:

Radio la Colifata is the first radio station that broadcasts from a mental hospital, the first radio station that exposes and gives voice to those who don't have the possibility to express themselves. The programs are completely made by the patients of the hospital Jose Borda in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In April 2003 Radio la Colifata organized a symbolic election inside the hospital the day before the real election in Argentina to permit all patients to vote. The results inside and outside are the same.

Why the patients of the Clinic for mental diseases in Buenos Aires re-elected Carlos Mehnem for a president without liking him? A documentary on the 2003 presidential elections in Argentine. IN April 2003 Radio La Colifata has organized mock 'presidential elections' in a mental clinic in Buenos Airesfor just a day before the official ones. Radio La Colifata, which in Buenos Aires slang means Crazy Radio - was the first radio show in the world to broadcast live from a mental hospital. The founder of the radio, psychologist Alfredo Olivera, had started to use a simple small dictaphone as a speech therapy. More than mere therapy, the show has proven popular with an estimated 12 million listeners. Away from the media limelight, the hospital says the show has had great therapeutic results. Saturday afternoon in Buenos Aires: tucked away behind the towering, prison-like Jose Borda psychiatric hospital, a large group of people is gathering. The Radio La Colifata team are now organizing their own presidential elections. The film provides an idiosyncratic look at the origins of democracy from inside a mental hospital where the patients do not have civil rights to vote. It is a documentary on the meaning of choice, free will and civil rights albeit cast in a grotesque and almost absurd light.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 January, 2010.

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