{"id":1399,"date":"2020-11-13T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2020-11-13T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:05:03","slug":"chilean-documentaries-making-waves-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/chilean-documentaries-making-waves-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Documentaries Making Waves in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVariety<\/a><\/p>\n

Chile\u2019s documentary film industry is making a major impact internationally with a raft of projects having recently featured at Germany\u2019s Dok Leipzig festival and another batch headed to Amsterdam\u2019s IDFA next week. While the Pinochet dictatorship proves as unavoidable as ever when compiling a list of Chilean productions, recent works promoted by Chiledoc have proved that the country has far more to offer.<\/p>\n

Below, 16 short, feature and virtual reality documentary titles from Chile making an impact abroad:<\/p>\n

\u201cAncacoy,\u201d (Mar\u00eda Paz Gonz\u00e1lez, Nicole B\u00f6ck)<\/p>\n

Based on the real case of Margarita Ancacoy, this project in development explores the circle of violence that led to her eventual death. It\u2019s a portrait of composition of what lies behind a murder. Uncovering recent history and mixing it with personal stories is a specialty of producers El Espino Films. IDFA bound.
\n\u201cArica,\u201d (Lars Edman, William Johansson Kal\u00e9n)<\/p>\n

Five countries contribute to the production about Swedish mining company Boliden, which exported toxic waste to the small town of Arica in northern Chile in the mid-\u201880s. Repercussions of the reckless disposal are still felt today, and the documentary tracks ongoing litigation demanding justice, compensation and a recognition of guilt from the company. The film participates in Frontlight IDFA.<\/p>\n

\u201cBastard: The Legacy of a Criminal,\u201d (Pepe Rovano)<\/p>\n

What if someone found out that their father was guilty of crimes against humanity? This is director Pepe Rovano\u2019s true life story, told with input from the daughters and sons of the six communist activists that were killed by his father during Pinochet\u2019s dictatorship.<\/p>\n

\u201cBreaking the Brick,\u201d (Carola Fuentes & Rafa Avellano)<\/p>\n

With support from the DOC Society and Sundance Documentary Funds, \u201cBreaking the Brick\u201d examines the social, political and economic situation in Chile since the death of dictator Pinochet, through to the social uprising of the last year. This project explores the effect economic liberalism has had on Chile\u2019s economy and on daily Chilean life. A Dok Leipzig presentation.
\n\u201cCagliostro,\u201d (Orlando Torres)<\/p>\n

Supported by the Vicente Guidobro Foundation, \u201cCagliostro\u201d adapts the book \u201cHorizon Carr\u00e9\u201d by Chilean Vicente Huidobro, who lived and worked in Paris between 1860-1930. The project leaps between the book, long forgotten, soundless film and the poet\u2019s own life story. Producer Orlando Torres Osorio pitched at Dok Leipzig.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cause,\u201d (Macarena Aguilo)<\/p>\n

Aguilo pitched at Dok Leipzig, looking for partners to finalize the project which is now more than 70% funded with support from Corfu and Chilean audiovisual protection funds. Director Macarena Aguilo, who was kidnapped at the age of three by the Chilean intelligence serving dictator Pinochet, based the project on her own fascinating history, and those of others like her who have been searching for justice for more than four decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine,\u201d (Alfredo Pourailly)
\nHaving secured funding from four different countries, a sales deal with a soon to be named agent, and more than one-third of its footage already shot in Tierra del Fuego, this is the story about the quest for a better life. Turning on an old-man and his son searching for gold, the young man designs a machine to help his father, as he\u2019s not qualified for social security and has no other income. Featured in the Chilean Pitching session at Dok Leipzig.<\/p>\n

\u201cMalqueridas,\u201d (Tana Gilbert)<\/p>\n

Pitching at IDFA this year, Errante Producciones backs Gilbert\u2019s feature debut focused on how women in prison reconstruct the experience of motherhood using videos and photographs, taken on contraband cell phones while incarcerated. \u201cMalqueridas\u201d spotlights the trauma of remote motherhood and the struggles these women face in dealing with confinement and lost time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mole Agent,\u201d (Maite Alberdi)<\/p>\n

An IDFA Best of Fest selection, \u201cThe Mole Agent\u201d is an ambitious five-country co-production which tells the story of Sergio, an 83-year-old investigator who becomes an undercover resident at a nursing home suspected of mistreating its wards. Inside, he becomes increasingly involved in the lives of several residences, jeopardizing his responsibilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cPir\u00f3polis,\u201d (Nicol\u00e1s Molina)<\/p>\n

After a Rotterdam 2019 Bright Future mention, and with CORFO development backing it up, \u201cPir\u00f3pilis\u201d recently participated at Dok Leipzig\u2019s Co-Pro Market. The project tells the story of Valparaiso\u2019s 5th Brigade firefighters, told in the context of a global pandemic and recent citizens\u2019 protest. The firefighters must find their place in new Chilean society as they are called into action after a major crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelentless Memory,\u201d (Margarita Canio)<\/p>\n

With support from the Ethnological Institute of Berlin among others, \u201cRelentless Memory\u201d narrates the investigation performed by anthropologist Robert Lehman-Nitsche involving native Latin-American ancestors, the Mapuche, who were held as prisoners by many countries which looked to conquer land that was once their territory. Another Dok Lepizig Chilean Pitching title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sky is Red,\u201d (Francina Carbonell)<\/p>\n

With all legal avenues having hit dead ends and no explanation provided, this feature documentary examines the 2010 fire at Chile\u2019s San Miguel prison which killed 81 inmates. \u201cIn 2010, the images on TV were almost Dante-esque, the manifestation of a real hell,\u201d Carbonell told Variety in Santiago at a 2018 Sanfic festival pitch. \u201cBut after that the news faded, the media stopped covering it and it disappeared from the public sphere.\u201d
\n\u201cWater Silhouettes,\u201d (Violeta Paus)<\/p>\n

A 15-minute short, Paus\u2019 Dok Leipzig competition player focuses on three Chilean women in this composition of image and sound. Each story demonstrates one part of major conflicts which have arisen resulting from the privatization of the national water supply which has led to contamination by industrial chemicals, scarcity and pollution from garbage dumping.<\/p>\n

VIRTUAL REALITY<\/p>\n

\u201cAncestral Secret VR,\u201d (Francisca Silva, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz)<\/p>\n

2020\u2019s Sunny Side of the Doc Best Digital Experiences Pitch-winner, this 15-minute virtual reality production is based on an ancient Inca prophecy which states \u201cIn the difficult times of the planet, harmony will return when the condor and the eagle fly again together,\u201d the condor representing the indigenous Q\u2019ero people and the eagle the globalized world. \u201cAncestral\u201d demonstrates the Q\u2019ero worldview, redefining the relationship between humanity and the planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cHypha,\u201d \u201cSymbiotica,\u201d (Juan Ferrer, Sebastian Gonzalez, Natalia Cabrera)<\/p>\n

Maltrato Films had a pair of VR projects involved at Dok Leipzig. \u201cHypha\u201d is a VR experience which uses the standard headset and controllers as well as a constructed installation to draw metaphorical parallels between the worlds of fungi and of humankind. \u201cSymbiotica\u201d is a multi-user experience in which users must work together to reconstruct a damaged biological organism, learning the impact that each part has on the whole in the symbiotic process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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