Voiceless: The Silenced Genocide
Title: Voiceless: The Silenced Genocide
Directed by
Víctor G. Villavieja, Martín Soto
Country: Spain
Duration: 1hr 3 mins
SYNOPSIS
In 1993 the president of Burundi is murdered, and a wave of ethnic violence floods the country. Years later, Lievin
Manisha, one of the survivors of that massacre, denounces
the violent crisis that still affects millions of Burundians. While trying to heal his personal wounds, he unveils the
hidden history of his country, a dark truth that had been buried.
Directors’ Bio
Víctor G. Villavieja, Martín Soto
Víctor Villavieja is a director and screenwriter born in Spain, who studied Journalism at the University of Zaragoza. In 2016, he decided to cross the pond and settle in Alexandria, Louisiana, to continue his education at Louisiana College, graduating in Convergence Media: Media Production in 2018 (Magna Cum Laude). During his last semester at the institution, when Villavieja was working for the local newspaper The Town Talk, he met Lievin Manisha, the film’s protagonist. While they were traveling and filming across Europe, Villavieja was also working at IMASC Agency as Marketing and Communications Manager. He resumed his studies in Journalism and graduated
with honors in 2020. Since then, Villavieja has participated in the making of the short films Un sueño de verano, El clamor del foro and Somos Pocos . He has just finished his Master’s degree in Digital Marketing at ESIC Business & Marketing School, and currently holds the position of Communications and Content Manager at the Swedish multinational Atlas Copco.
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Martín Soto is a director, producer and cinematographer from Madrid who studied Audiovisual Communication at Rey Juan Carlos University and holds a Master’s degree in Advertising Film Direction and Production at Makkers School. He obtained an honors recognition for his final degree project, the short film 10, in which he was Production Manager. Since then, he has been involved in several top-level audiovisual productions. He was in the Locations department for the North American series In from the Cold by Fresco Film Services. He was in the Production and PRL-COVID department at La nochemás larga, by La Zona. And lastly, he has recently worked in the Production department for Express, a series by Mediapro. He has also been the Production Manager for several music videos, such as Ego by the indie group Gole Yaika. His latest productions are the short film Tabaiba by Fundación SM and Makkers School, in which he worked as Location Manager, the short film Life’s
Now as Location Scout, the video clip Bespoke-Phonographe, and the short film Los besos que perdí, as Production Assistant.
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