Running for Bogota

Running time: 51 mins

In Columbia, a country fraught with violence, poverty, and rampant political corruption, a record number of candidates with no prior political experience ran for congress in 1998. Running for Bogota traces the campaigns of two such novices: Claudia Vasquez, a businesswoman, and Leonor Gonzalez Mina, a popular actress and singer known as "La Negra Grande de Columbia" Faced with the distrust of a people long jaded by promises of reform, the two women take to the streets to gain support and to learn from those they wish to represent. What unfolds is the Columbia of today, a country in transition dealing with significant social changes.