Makun (don't cry): Recreating vetoed realities through the animated documentary and animated journalism

Abstract

MAKUN (Don't Cry) - Drawings in an Immigrant Detention Center is a 30-minute animated documentary that delves into a very opaque reality: IDCs, prisons for innocent people where video cameras are not normally allowed. Having obtained unique documentary material -the drawings left on the walls of the IDC in Fuerteventura by thousands of prisoners-, we decided to give life to it through 2D animation, hoping to achieve more than just the illustration of the oral testimonies collected for the film and which tell of the many injustices and Human Rights violations committed in these places. This article personally summarizes the experience of addressing the preparation and filming of MAKUN, as well as some aspects of its distribution, by the director of the film.