The Endless Blemish | Red Collision

writer: Julián Camilo Sánchez

title: The Endless Blemish

original language: English

country: Colombia

genre: Thriller

format: Feature | 90 min

status: In Development

one liner:

Duarte is a novice journalist who uncovers a delicate fraud in an internationally award-winning investigation done by a powerful colleague. Despite his attempt to bring up the truth, Duarte only manages to bury his promising future as a reporter.

synopsis:

While researching for an article, journalist Leonardo Duarte (26) finds serious inconsistencies in an award-winning investigation about a massacre perpetrated in the 1950s in Colombia. Upon further investigation, he discovers that the central testimony of the investigation was clearly manipulated by the author of the text, an acclaimed journalist named Diego Hartman. Willed by his ethical principles, Duarte does everything possible to unmask his colleague. Nonetheless, his revelations are discredited by leaks, lies, and a power so great that pushes him down to a tragic end.

why it matters?

“The Endless Blemish” works as the essence of modern times, when reality is sculpted with lies and it seems that we all have to pick one side, for one lie or another, and we are left with the impression that calling for truth is calling for more deceptions. This is the story of an ordinary man who, during his search to expose the truth, ends up trapped in the darkest falsification. It is a film relevant to our times, as it calls for us to question what we associate as absolute truth, reflecting on the media role and our stance as a society.