‘Black Shine, From ‘State of Silence’ Director Santiago Maza, ’ Delves Into the Aftermath of a 2006 Mining Tragedy That Buried 63 Miners

‘Black Shine, From ‘State of Silence’ Director Santiago Maza, ’ Delves Into the Aftermath of a 2006 Mining Tragedy That Buried 63 Miners hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 22, 2026 1:23pm PT ‘Black Shine, From ‘State of Silence’ Director Santiago Maza, ’ Delves Into the Aftermath of a 2006 Mining Tragedy That Buried 63 Miners ‘Black Shine’ marks Maza’s follow-up to ‘State of Silence,’ a impactful passion project of Diego Luna, awarded Best Feature at Chile’s top festival, Sanfic in 2024 By Anna Marie de la Fuente Plus Icon Anna Marie de la Fuente @adelafuente1 Latest Todd Haynes’ ‘De Noche’ Mexican Co-Producer Península Boards Pimienta Films’ Stop-Motion ‘Insectario’ by Sofia Carrillo (EXCLUSIVE) 1 day ago Guillermo del Toro Tears Up as He Says ‘We’re Handing Down a World in Ruins’: ‘It Pains Me Deeply to See Three Generations Fail the Next’ 2 days ago ‘Leap Year’ Director Michael Rowe’s Cross Border Drama ‘Last Weekend’ Boarded by Mexico’s Paloma Negra (EXCLUSIVE) 3 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Mexico’s Santiago Maza, whose fourth feature-length doc “State of Silence,” (“Estado de Silencio”), a passion project of Diego Luna, snagged the best feature award at Chile’s 2024 Santiago Film Festival (Sanfic), has premiered his latest work, “Black Shine” (“El brillo negro”) at the Morelia Film Festival where it competes for the top prize among the multiple short films in competition. Set in Coahuila’s coal-mining region in Mexico, “Black Shine” revisits the 2006 Pasta de Conchos mine explosion that buried 65 miners.

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Two decades later, after years of neglect and impunity, families continue their fight for the recovery of their loved ones. Popular on Variety Related Stories ‘Obsession’ Star Inde Navarrette Says Gen Z Wants Films ‘Where We’re Not Being Sold.

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We Are Tired of Ads in Movies and Product Placement’ Oscar Predictions: Supporting Actor — How Many Men Can be Nominated From ‘The Odyssey’? Like “State of Silence,” which centers on the high death count of reporters in Mexico through the lives of four journalists, “Black Shine” focuses on two people in particular: El Güero, a former miner who has recovered his brother’s remains, and Elvira, still waiting for her husband.

The doc portrays grief as an enduring act of resistance and a refusal to let those lost beneath the earth be forgotten. Speaking to Variety at Morelia, Maza relates how he met them in 2021 when he traveled to Coahuila to shoot a short film about climate change.

There he met with the Pasta de Conchos organization which had been spearheading the fight to dig up the long-buried bodies, some of which have been recovered. “After 20 years of fighting for the recovery of the miners’ bodies, the families began experiencing deeply cathartic moments of rescue, like funerals filled with light and a long-awaited sense of peace.” “The organization invited me to document this process and it felt right.

I wanted to make a film that acknowledged the political weight of the struggle while focusing on its emotional dimension. Through the organization, I met Elvia and El Güero.

Their stories felt like two sides of the same journey toward closure, capturing the possibility of peace after two decades of struggle.” He adds: “When the disaster happened in 2006, the mining company and the government effectively colluded to cover it up. They never properly searched for the miners.

That was the second tragedy: the corruption and impunity that kept their families from recovering their loved ones. Three presidential administrations came and went before Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited the site in 2018 and promised that, if elected

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