Justin Webster (Aldershot, 1963) is an English film director. He lives in Barcelona and specialises in documentaries. He is the author of a number of films, among them FC Barcelona Confidential (2004), Life from Others (2012) and Convict the Judge (2011), which have earned him numerous film awards. With the thriller I will be murdered (2013), filmed in documentary format, he tells the story of the death of Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg. The case became known around the world, because, after being killed, he appeared in a posthumous video that predicted his own death, accusing former President Alvaro Colom of being the person responsible. The story is quite recent (Rosenberg died in 2009) and the video was viewed by many people and had a strong social impact in Guatemala.
Webster reconstructs the crime from two angles: on the one hand, he presents Rosenberg through his surroundings to try to understand the man and thus be able to interpret the circumstances that led to his assassination; on the other, the film focuses on the investigation carried out by Carlos Castresana, the Spanish public prosecutor commissioned by the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) to clarify the mystery of his death and see to what extent the former president accused in the video could be responsible.
I will be murdered has won several awards including the International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias, Havana Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival, USA; HotDocs International Documentary Film Festival of Canada, and Festival de Barcelona. It is a film with a great deal of intrigue, showing political machinations and investigating the confused personalities of the people involved, in a quest to discover the truth and see that justice is done.
LiberPress Cinema Award 2014
Justin Webster received the 2014 LiberPress Cinema Award for his direction of the film I will be murdered, a magnificently professional documentary that explores the Rosenberg case, a surprising story with a high media profile that shook the government of a country and in which numerous international investigators, led by the able Carlos Castresana, worked with dedication, intuition, intelligence and courage to discover the truth about a murder and, finally, see that justice was done.