Canadian-Colombian filmmaker explores coming of age through bullfighting

Canadian-Colombian filmmaker Pablo Alvarez-Mesa talks about the premiere of his film Nuestro Monte Luna, which features5 aspiring bullfighters in rural Colombia. The film follows the young boysas they fight torealizetheir dream of becoming local heroes in the face ofsocietal pressures to put an end to the longstanding tradition.Do they give in and quit, or do they continue chasing the only way out ofanimpoverished past?Interrupt This Program caught up with Pablo during his screening at the Festival Ambulante in Medelln.

Watch the trailer for his touching documentary below.

Hear more fromPablo on his home city's artistictransformation on thisweek'sInterrupt This Program;Medelln.Friday, December 4 at 8:30/9pmNT.