Camioneta

La Camioneta that goes by without someone who has something really nice to say about Todd Griffin’s beautiful score for the film. Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day.  Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been killed for not paying the extortion money demanded by local gangs.  La Camioneta tracks the migration and resurrection of one bus as a vehicle into the personal stories of five men whose lives become intertwined with its fate.  This is part of desperate poverty and Body-shop workers transform the classic yellow behemoth into a creative work of art, designing its new shell with care and pride. Mark Kendall’s “La Camioneta” contains no narration or explanatory onscreen text. It simply tells the story of the bus and those whose lives it crosses, and how these drivers risk a little bit during their traveling through USA, Mexico and Guatemala. These drivers have to face the race for survival causes who are involved are persevering, imaginary and lifestyle show which Guatemala has a different lifestyle to support their families. Excellent documentary that will make you think how is a sale of an American old school truck.