{"id":2335,"date":"2021-07-05T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2021-07-05T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T17:01:10","slug":"five-chilean-cartoons-draw-interest-ahead-of-cannes-marche-du-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/five-chilean-cartoons-draw-interest-ahead-of-cannes-marche-du-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Chilean Cartoons Draw Interest Ahead of Cannes March\u00e9 du Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Variety<\/a>
\nJULY 5, 2021<\/p>\n

In 2002, \u201cOgu and Mampato in Rapa Nui\u201d became Chile\u2019s first animated feature since the silent \u201cVida y milagros de Don Fausto\u201d in 1924. Less than two decades later, five animated Chilean features in various stages of production are pitching at the Cannes March\u00e9 du Film.<\/p>\n

That kind of growth would be surprising if it weren\u2019t mirroring a larger shift seen in the country\u2019s screen industries as a whole. There are few territories where domestic production and international co-production are more vibrant and exciting than Chile, whether in live action or animation, film or TV. In fact, two years before Sebasti\u00e1n Lelio\u2019s \u201cA Fantastic Woman\u201d won the international feature Oscar, Punkrobot\u2019s \u201cBear Story\u201d became the first-ever Chilean film to win an Academy Award as 2016\u2019s best animated short.<\/p>\n

Last year, \u201cNahuel and the Magic Book\u201d was the third consecutive Chilean film to play in competition at the Annecy Animation Festival, the world\u2019s most important animation festival and marketplace, after \u201cHomeless\u201d in 2019 and \u201cThe Wolf House\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n

For most countries with the size, history and resources of Chile, five cartoon features at the March\u00e9 du Film would be exceptional. For Chile, it\u2019s become par for the course.<\/p>\n

Below, the five animated features looking to draw interest at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Market.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderground Stories\u201d (Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A well gestated project, \u201cUnderground Stories\u201d is produced by former Berlinanle Talent Catalina Victoria Donoso and Cusicanqui from Sweden\u2019s Laika Film & Television, who pitched their trans-Atlantic co-production at last month\u2019s Annecy Animation Festival. Based on a black and white graphic novel, this 2D pencil-sketched feature follows middle-aged artist Ariel, who creates his own comic to get closer to his teenaged son Franco. The artist draws storied from his own life during Pinochet\u2019s brutal dictatorship, showing the boy how everything in his own life changed when his parents agreed to shelter several of the regime\u2019s most wanted individuals, eventually housing them for 10 years. Production is underway and a full animatic and extensive art book are already finished. Delivery is planned for 2023.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDevil\u2019s Vein\u201d (Germ\u00e1n Acu\u00f1a)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acu\u00f1a\u2019s last feature, the charming kids fantasy story \u201cNahuel and the Magic Book,\u201d was a hit at 2020\u2019s online Annecy Animation Festival before winning prizes at the Quirino Awards, Chile\u2019s Chilemonos fest and the Tokyo Anime Award Festival. At this year\u2019s Annecy, Acu\u00f1a announced his next project, \u201cDevil\u2019s Vein.\u201d Set at the height of the mining boom in the Atacama Desert of the 1920s, the feature follows Mercedes, a humble 16-year girl who decides to steal a mysterious piece of gold. She hopes to use it to negotiate for the life of her brother who has gotten himself in trouble with the mineral\u2019s true owner: the devil under the desert. Sebasti\u00e1n Ruz at Carburadores produces, and is in talks with a Peruvian company to co-produce.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUky and Lola in the Land of Fire\u201d (Fabi\u00e1n Andrade)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wild Bunch Studio CEO and executive producer Simon Barrionuevo Duran is producing this family feature, based heavily on the works of anthropologist Anne Chapman, who studied Patagonia\u2019s Selk\u2019nam people. In the film, Uky, an impetuous young Selk\u2019nam, and Lola, a Shaman apprentice, find themselves responsible for the future of their people, threatened by malevolent sheep farmers who are trying to enslave the natives and claim the land as their own. Together, the two must figure out how to channel the magic of local spirits and solve the endless dispute between the Sun and the Moon. \u201cFor me the Selk\u2019nam nation can teach us very deep and powerful lessons that can help to shape a better future,\u201d Andrade told Variety, \u201cbut also a history of injustice and many ghosts that demands answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWinnipeg, Seeds of Hope\u201d (Elio Quiroga, Be\u00f1at Beitia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presented at this year\u2019s Cartoon Movie, \u201cWinnipeg, Seeds of Hope\u201d is a three-country coproduction headed by Marianne Mayer-Beckh at El Otro Film in Chile, Antoni Marin Vila at La Ballesta and Ricardo Ramon from Dibulitoon in Spain, and Midralgar (formerly MarmitaFilms) in France. Another 2D historical drama, again adapted from a popular graphic novel, the film follows widower Victor and his daughter Julia, two of the roughly 2,400 Spanish refugees who fled to Chile during the Spanish Civil War aboard the SS Winnipeg ocean liner, chartered by Chilean writer Pablo Neruda and the Quakers in Paris.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGrandpa Miguel\u201d (Tom\u00e1s Montalva)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Targeting kids and family, \u201cGrandpa Miguel\u201d is a colorful and fun comedy that will be finished later this year. Llolleo Creativo\u2019s Cecilia Baeriswyl produces the story of Grandpa Miguel, a retired fisherman who learns he has seven days to live. Joined by his forgetful friend Cholo, Miguel sketches out his bucket list the most important of which is reconnecting with his first love, Luciana. As the two prepare to set off on the cross-country journey, Miguel\u2019s estranged son Sebasti\u00e1n shows up looking to mend their relationship before it\u2019s too late and introduces Miguel to Julieta, a granddaughter he never knew he had. With his best friend and family by his side, Miguel embarks on the odyssey of a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Variety JULY 5, 2021 In 2002, \u201cOgu and Mampato in Rapa Nui\u201d became Chile\u2019s first animated feature since the silent \u201cVida y milagros de Don Fausto\u201d in 1924. Less than two decades later, five animated Chilean features in various stages of production are pitching at the Cannes March\u00e9 du Film. That kind of growth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}