• Chile lands at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX, where Oasis, the latest film from the MAFI collective, will be screened. Additionally, the project Unwelcomed (Si vas para Chile), Amilcar Films’ debut film, will participate in the CPH:WIP Pitch.
• Also attending the CPH:DOX market will be the company Errante Producciones, which is developing the projects Burning Daddy (Papito Corazón) and Breaking Words (Rompiendo Palabras). The first is directed by Tana Gilbert, who had an excellent 2023 with Malqueridas, and the second is Eloisa Silva’s debut feature film, which addresses the issue of trans adolescence.
From March 13 to 24, CPH:DOX will take place in Denmark, where Chile expects to shine with the films and projects of its delegation. The delegation includes Paola Castillo, producer of Errante; Amilcar Infante and Sebastian Gonzalez, director and producer at Amilcar Films; Diego Pino Anguita, deputy director of Chiledoc, the sectorial brand that promotes Chilean documentaries worldwide and coordinates the activities of Chileans present at CPH:DOX. Tamara Uribe, co-director of the film Oasis, will also attend the festival and market.
This festival and market are among the most renowned in Europe, characterized by its search for avant-garde works, with sections focused on new languages and special concern for themes such as diversity, inclusion, gender, politics, and the environment. «This is the second opportunity we will attend this market in person, and we are very pleased with how the Chilean presence has solidified in just one year. CPH:DOX is an indispensable industry space for documentaries worldwide, particularly in Europe, and it was still pending in our internationalization work, which was strange because the type of cinema and themes it promotes are directly connected to what happens with national production,» says Diego Pino, deputy director of Chiledoc.
«The presence of Chilean documentaries at events like CPH:DOX demonstrates the growing interest in the Nordic countries and worldwide in our country’s creative industry. Chile has already had a consistent presence in the last editions of this festival, premiering several documentaries that were able to reach the rest of Europe and, in particular, the Nordic countries from Copenhagen, diversifying markets where co-productions and financing for the national creative industries sector can be secured,» corroborates Catalin Butnariu, commercial representative at ProChile in Sweden and the Nordic countries.
«The projects brought to CPH:DOX by the production companies Errante and Amilcar Films were part of the industry meeting Conecta 2023. We hope that the connections initiated there can be resumed in this market. As Chiledoc, our task is to support them in all necessary connections with these and other agents in the global film industry, to propel them in the best possible way towards their internationalization,» adds Diego Pino.
Danish premiere
Oasis, the latest feature film from MAFI -Film Map of a Country– is a collectively constructed documentary portraying how Chile chooses to write a New Constitution after an unprecedented social uprising. A colorful assembly will be in charge of writing down the dreams of dignity and social justice of an entire nation. What could go wrong?
Oasis recently premiered in the Forum section of the Berlinale and is now making its Danish debut at CPH:DOX. The film is directed by Tamara Uribe and Felipe Morgado and produced by Alba Gaviraghi and Diego Pino Anguita.
MAFI is a filmmaking collective dedicated to the collaborative, observational, and territorial creation and teaching of documentary cinema since 2012. Previously, they premiered Propaganda and God, which also addresses themes such as politics, society, current affairs, the environment, and human rights, at Visions Du Reél.
OASIS | Urgent Matters Screenings
– March 18 | 17:00 hrs | Dagmar
– March 22 | 16:00 hrs | Charlottenborg
– March 24 | 17:00 hrs | Empire Bio
Unwelcomed (Si vas para Chile)
Amilcar Films will participate in the CPH:WIP industry section, presenting its project Unwelcomed. The film is currently in the first cut stage and seeking co-production, alternatives for post-production, and sales agents to begin working on premiere and distribution strategies.
Directed by Amilcar Infante and Sebastián González, and produced by Sebastián González and Esteban Sandoval, Unwelcomed addresses the migration crisis. It focuses on one of the most noteworthy demonstrations in Chile in 2021, marked by a violent anti-immigrant march in the north of the country, where tents and family belongings were burned. These images traveled the world, but not the stories of those affected. This choral documentary is the living testimony of those who continue to enter despite the adversities and of those local inhabitants who live amid an escalating social conflict, the harshness of the Atacama Desert, and the Andean highlands.
«It is a milestone for our project to have been selected for CPH:WIP alongside five other documentaries from around the world. It is an important platform for exposure to international industry agents, where we hope to establish alliances, secure financing, and explore distribution opportunities,» says Sebastián González, producer at Amilcar Films.
UNWELCOMED| Pitch CPH:WIP
March 18 | 15:00 to 17:00 hrs | Staerekassen
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Chilean Projects
The projects Burning Daddy (Papito Corazón) and Breaking Words (Rompiendo Palabras), from Paola Castillo‘s production house Errante, are coming to the CPH:DOX market.
The first, Burning Daddy (Papito Corazón), is directed by Tana Gilbert and produced by Paola Castillo and Dirk Manthey. The same team had an excellent 2023 with the world premiere of their previous film, Malqueridas, at the International Critics’ Week in Venice, having the honor of being the first Chilean documentary selected in this instance and where it also won three awards: the IWONDERFULL Grand Prize Settimana Internazionale della Critica, the award for best film in the competition; the Mario Serandei – Hotel Saturnia Award for Best Technical Contribution, granted by a committee of film critics, members of the National Union of Italian Film Critics; and the special mention «Under The Umbrella of the Premio Pedicini for under-40 filmmakers», for Javiera Velozo and Tana Gilbert.
In Burning Daddy (Papito Corazón), a family embarks on the reconstruction of its history and that of their father. With memories fragmented by the violence the family group for years, photographs withheld for a decade and court and court files, the film tries to approach Pablo in an imaginary way, weaving together imaginary approach to Pablo, weaving the complex web of Chilean paternity of the Chilean post-dictatorship and neoliberal fatherhood. Burning Daddy creates a new deformed family album and challenges the fragmentation of a wounded memory.
On the other hand, Paola Castillo produces Breaking Words (Rompiendo Palabras), the debut film by director Eloísa Silva Valderrama. This project was selected in 2023 to participate in the «Pitch The Whickers» event held at the industry meeting Conecta. There, it met representatives from the audiovisual sector in Europe and North America, with whom they hope to resume conversations in this market.
As for Breaking Words (Rompiendo Palabras), the filmmaker tackles a tremendously sensitive and timely topic: transgender adolescence. The documentary follows four transgender adolescents who, for a year, take part in artistic workshops, leaving traces in what they create of their family pain, self-esteem issues, and uncertainties about the future. With letters written to their parents, watercolor self-portraits, and utopian worlds created with cut-outs, they reveal a deep intimacy on their way to self-love. In a concluding animation workshop in which their childhood photos are used, they will have the chance to reconcile with their identity.
About Chiledoc
Its objective is to promote and generate global collaboration networks for the audiovisual production of Chilean documentaries that favor exports. It is a public-private partnership between ProChile, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Chilean Documentary Corporation CCDoc.
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