Synopsis

Through a journey in Latin America, diverse sociopolitical visions are revealed from the critical vision of its inhabitants, generating essential questions about life and different ways of perceiving reality.

Team

• Amanda

  Puga

  Director

  Film and audiovisual producer and director with experience in various Chilean and foreign productions. She has worked as a production assistant and location agent on projects such as «The Wheel» Discovery Channel, «Amazing Race», documentaries for Netflix, «Cursed Poems» by Villano Films, among others.

  She is also executive producer and director at Praxia Producciones, where she generates her own film and TV projects, «MY NORTH IS THE SOUTH» as director, the short films LA GAMBETA (Cinelatino Toulouse) and DESHABITADA (Rotterdam) as executive producer, in addition to directing various video clips, corporate videos and photography projects.

  She was Director of the Association of Independent Producers of Chile in 2017 and today is President of the Gremio Audiovisual de Los Lagos (Audiovisual Guild).

• Catalina

  Alarcón

  Producer

  Director, screenwriter and documentary film producer. Director of the cultural organization VOLVER A CASA, which intervenes in the prison system, generating film and virtual reality workshops since 2016.

  She is the director and screenwriter of the virtual reality experience Volver a casa VR (Corfo Development Fund, IDFA FORUM Doclab 2019, Meet Market Sheffield Alternate Realities 2020, Sunny Side of the Doc Pixii Market 2020) and the feature film of the same name (Corfo Development Fund , SANFIC LAB 2018, PUERTO FICCI Lab). She is the director of LA GAMBETA, a fiction short film to premiere at FICValdivia 2020, winner of the film production fund of the Audiovisual Fund in Chile.

  She is the general producer and director at MAFI.tv of the feature film «DIOS» (Visions du reel) and the feature film in production «OASIS». Executive producer of «MY NORTH IS THE SOUTH» (68th Mannheim Heidelberg Film Fest) and of the feature film in development «LA MUERTE VIO VOLVER»(Sanfic Lab 2019).

Technical Info

Year: 2018
Format: FULL HD
Lenght: 99 min
Country: Chile
Director: Amanda Puga Salman
Producer: Catalina Alarcón
Production Company: Praxia Producciones
Web Page: www.minorteeselsur.com
Social Media: @proyectominorteeselsur www.facebook.com/minorteselsur
Distribution/Sales Agent: Feel Sales España

Awards and Official Selections

67th Mannheim Heidelberg Film Festival 2018
10th Seattle Latino Film Festival
3rd Festival de Cine de Guayaquil
Femcine 2019
Festival de cine de Rengo 2019.
35th Festival Latinoamericao de Trieste