Focus Features

On Friday, November 29, 25-year-old film actress Carmen Bueno and 27 year-old cameraman Jorge Muller were working a documentary for the Peace Committee of the Chilean Churches when a dark car pulled beside them, shoved them in the back seat, and tore off. It was later revealed the car was driven by agents of Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA), a police force under the Pinochet regime. While terrible reports of torture and eventually death leaked out of Chilean prisons, neither death was ever confirmed. In response to the arrest, the Emergency Committee to Defend Latin American Filmmakers arose to bring attention to the plight of filmmakers working in repressive regimes.

On Friday, November 29, 25-year-old film actress Carmen Bueno and 27 year-old cameraman Jorge Muller were working a documentary for the Peace Committee of the Chilean Churches when a dark car pulled beside them, shoved them in the back seat, and tore off. It was later revealed the car was driven by agents of Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA), a police force under the Pinochet regime. While terrible reports of torture and eventually death leaked out of Chilean prisons, neither death was ever confirmed. In response to the arrest, the Emergency Committee to Defend Latin American Filmmakers arose to bring attention to the plight of filmmakers working in repressive regimes.