Always on
This project successfully funded on 5th April 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
This project successfully funded on 5th April 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
Aim To save a photo archive & support a grassroots documentary made by us, the people who were there, on a historic fight against impunity.
Help us keep this history alive.
We’re raising £3,000 to rescue a photographic archive from being lost. We want to preserve these images, make them publicly accessible, and use them in a grassroots documentary by people who were there—telling the story of a historic struggle against dictatorship and impunity.
Between 1998 and 2000, for 503 unforgettable days, the Chilean exile community in London protested and campaigned to support Augusto Pinochet’s extradition to Spain to face charges of crimes against humanity. His arrest in London was historic—the first time a former head of state was detained under the principle of universal jurisdiction, sending a message around the world: dictators can be held accountable.
During daily protests—El piquete de Londres was outside the High Court, at Belmarsh Prison, Parliament Square, Harley Street—ordinary spaces became sites of resistance. We took over 3,000 photographs, documenting how our community organised a high profile campaign and refused to be silent. These images have never been seen. Most remain undeveloped, undigitised, and at risk of being lost forever.
Under Pinochet’s dictatorship, more than 3,000 people were politically executed or forcibly disappeared, and tens of thousands were tortured. Families are still asking the same question today: ¿Dónde están? In their memory, we keep going.
This is a grassroots, community-led initiative. By supporting this crowdfunder, you are helping preserve a vital archive and bringing this story to the screen.
Why now? Because fascism is rising again, human rights are under attack, and the lessons of past struggles are being erased. Memory is a political act—a form of resistance.
Please donate if you can. Share if you can’t.
Stand with us in keeping this history, this memory and this fight for justice, alive.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made