"In a strong slate of international documentaries, Comparsa stood out by balancing an urgent call for women's justice in Guatemala with a portrait of the unwavering power of sisterhood, community and the arts in overwhelming circumstances. Directors Doug Anderson and Vickie Curtis slowly and artfully reveal the suffocating forces women in Ciudad Peronia are up against while taking care not to re-victimize their subjects and focus instead on the exhilarating creativity sisters Lesli and Lupe are still able to summon to inspire joy and change around them."
