Chilean delegation to bring five projects to Sunny Side of the Doc 2021

16 junio, 2021

By Modern Times Review
JUNE 14, 2021

From 21 to 24 June, 2021, Sunny Side of the Doc returns to La Rochelle under the theme of storytellingmatters. Across these 4 days, 42 projects from 18 countries are part of the 2021 official selection and industry activities.

Of those 18 countries, Chile continues its strong documentary showing of late with a diverse selection of projects that will be shown across Sunny Side of the docs official selections and its industry marketplace. Held mostly online, this industry marketplace hosts a virtual environment for Chile and all country delegations to present themselves to an international collection of decision makers.

On 21 June (17:00 CET) there will be a chance to meet the Chilean delegation. It will be made up of Chilean producers Carola Fuentes (La Ventana Cine), Gonzalo Argandoña (Cábala Producciones), Ignacia Merino (Tres Tercios), Miguel Soffia (We Are South), and Loreto Contreras (Errante Producciones), as well as ChileDoc Chief Executive Paola Castillo and Director Paula Ossandon.

Then, on 24 June, Chile’s submission to the Sunny Side of the Doc Wildlife & Conservation Pitch, Extreme of the Americas, takes place.

Read all about the projects representing Chile below, and fine out more information on 2021 Sunny Side of the Doc – HERE

Official Selection

Wildlife & Conservation Pitch

Extreme of the Americas (dir. Miguel Soffia, Kelsey Eliasson; prod. Karine Genest, Miguel Soffia) – Chile, Canada
Climate change is very much a fact of life along the extreme edges of the Americas. In northern Canada, and Chilean Patagonia, residents no longer speak of ‘if’ and ‘when; climate change will alter their lands. They simply deal with it as part of an everyday reality. Extremes of the Americas looks at climate change from a local perspective. Both from the humans and the animals that live at the very tips of North and South America. This innovative series records the ideas and thoughts of a changing world through the words and actions of the people living at the heart of the climate crisis.

Chilean Delegation

Chilépolis (dir. Simón Vargas; prod. Magdalena Hurtado, Ignacia Merino) – Chile
Chilepolis is a documentary television program about one of the most relevant and contingent issues in the world and in Chile: migration. In each episode, the stories of three migrants from different countries who have arrived in Chile will be known. From diverse origins, ways of thinking and being, our goal is to collaborate for a more inclusive society, under the term: migrating is a human right. We trust in the wealth generated in the mixture of ideas and ways of acting from different parts of the world. In this way we create a new Chilepolis.

Relentless Memory (dir. Paula Rodríguez Sickert; prod .Paola Castillo) – Chile
The discovery of some forgotten files in a museum in Berlin motivates a trip that reveals one of the darkest and most silenced episodes in the history of Chile and Argentina. Margarita, a young Mapuche academic, discovers the testimonies of indigenous people who were deported and stripped of their lands during the military campaigns of the 19th century. Moved by the discovery, she embarks on a journey to walk the deportation paths that her ancestors made one hundred years ago.

Breaking the Brick (dir/prod. Carola Fuentes, Rafael Valdeavellano) – Chile
In the most neoliberal country in the world, millions of Chileans rise up in a popular revolt to challenge the theories of Milton Friedman imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship. Mariana (50) is one of the model’s victims. Ramiro (70) is one of the beneficiaries. In an unforgettable year for humanity, both will undergo an unexpected transformation, while the country chooses to overhaul the model by the creation of a new Constitution.

The Guardians of the Andes (dir. Fernando Garabedian; prod. Fernando Acuña, Gonzalo Argandoña, Alex Eduardo Córdova) – Chile, Perú
At the height of the Inca Empire, children were sacrificed on the highest peaks of America to be guardians of abundance: they were the Capac Cocha. The mummy of the Child of Cerro El Plomo, unearthed in 1954, was the first discovery of such offerings preserved at high altitude. Through state-of-the-art examinations and a journey through Chile and Peru, we will discover the secrets of the Capac Cocha ceremony.