Director Felipe Bustos Sierra Details Documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street

Director Felipe Bustos Sierra spoke at IndieWire's Art of the Doc event about his documentary project titled Everybody to Kenmure Street. IndieWire reported that Sierra outlined his creative approach to capturing the events of a spontaneous protest in Glasgow. Sierra stated that his film needed to introduce the long history of social justice protests in Glasgow to properly contextualize what happened during the protest. [1][5]

Sierra is a Chilean-Belgian film director, producer, and editor based in Scotland. He serves as the founder and creative director of Debasers Filums, an independent film production company operating out of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Sierra previously directed the 2018 feature documentary Nae Pasaran, which won the Best Feature award at the British Academy Scotland Awards. [6]

The project documents demonstrative forms of community action and street protests. Broadly defined, activism includes political, social, and economic efforts to prompt reforms, ranging from street marches and sit-ins to community organizing. [1][8]