¡Las Sandinistas!

The documentary is about women in Nicaragua. Its subject is the Sandinista revolution of 1979. Women took part in the armed struggle in that period. Some of them commanded units. After the revolution they took up social work. They worked in education and in health. The documentary brings these figures together. Dora María Téllez speaks. The poet Daisy Zamora tells her part. Journalists and writers take part as well. What they say is joined with archive footage. According to the film the names of these women were later erased. They are still inside the arguments in the country today. The documentary holds an open position. What is told is the film’s own view. Dora María Téllez and Daisy Zamora appear in the ninety four minute documentary. It is a Nicaraguan and American production Jenny Murray finished in 2018.