Berta soy yo

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Note of intent

On March 1st, 2016 I met with Berta to plan one more shooting trip to the Gualcarque River. The next day she was assassinated. I still have the notebook where I wrote down the interests that were conspiring against her. My coworker Milton Benítez joined that meeting to invite her into his TV program. I have the privilege of having known her well, our grandmothers are cousins, but it is not family ties that link me with her; it is the struggle against the project consolidated after the 2009 coup d’état, which is proposed to sell off Honduras at any price.

Synopsis

In the most dangerous country in the world for the defenders of the environment, Milton Benítez, the tenacious Honduran journalist, follows the trail of clues he wrote down while meeting with Berta the day before her assassination. Helped by Almudena Bernabeu, the well-known international lawyer, he puts the puzzle together. What they find is a plot involving corporations and public officials, that mark a deadly pattern. The film fit together the pieces from unedited files, unsuspecting witnesses and an investigation into the shady contracts that Berta had been denouncing.

Visual concept

The first act ends with the assassination of Berta, then we follow Milton Benítez journalist to find out what killed a woman whose known destiny is death. As a fiction film Milton acts guided by what his friend denounced, taking risks through research, that reveals the clues, the suspense through the death threats directed at Milton, Gustavo and Víctor Fernández. The movie has access to OAS afficials and Almudena Bernabeu, and the story grows in complexity to get at the “truth” through privileged information that responds of what killed Berta.