This film demonstrates how local, amateur actors in Colombia are used to dramatize scenarios that depict the health challenges faced by rural families. Through these ‘sociodramas,’ common family planning methods are promoted as a way to combat malnutrition, poverty, and unhappiness in large homes. The film ends with a little girl reciting a copla-a poetic form popular in the coffee-growing area where the sketches are set. She hails the Profamilia organization and “clarifies” that women affiliated with a club supported by the organization were “good women and not rebels.” In short, through this copla and the sociodrama sketches, the film shows how rural people appropriated and adapted national family planning discourse to their specific realities and communications modes.
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