{"id":2350,"date":"2021-07-07T12:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2021-07-07T12:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:58:29","slug":"a-fantastic-womans-sebastian-lelio-backs-new-doc-on-chileans-blinded-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/a-fantastic-womans-sebastian-lelio-backs-new-doc-on-chileans-blinded-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Fantastic Woman\u2019s\u2019 Sebasti\u00e1n Lelio Backs New Doc on Chileans Blinded by Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Variety<\/a>
\nJULY 6, 2021<\/p>\n

Academy Award winner Sebasti\u00e1n Lelio (\u201cA Fantastic Woman\u201d) has signed on to associate produce \u201cEl Porvenir de la Mirada,\u201d a doc feature that captures the trauma of young protesters shot in the eyes by Chilean police during massive demonstrations erupting in Chile in October 2019.<\/p>\n

Lelio\u2019s boarding \u201cEl Porvenir de la Mirada\u201d marks his return to his native Chile after movies with Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams (\u201cDisobedience\u201d) and Julianne Moore (\u201cGloria Bell\u201d).<\/p>\n

Produced by Gabriela Sandoval and Carlos N\u00fa\u00f1ez at Storyboard Media (\u201cSantiago, Italia,\u201d \u201cJailbreak Pact\u201d), \u201cPorvenir\u201d is directed by Chilean doc filmmaker Cristi\u00e1n Leighton (\u201cKawase San,\u201d \u201cNowheremen\u201d). Storyboard will unveil \u201cPorvenir\u201d at the Cannes Film Market, courting international co-producers, said Sandoval.<\/p>\n

In huge civil protests mainly between October 2019 and March 2020 \u2014 for example, on Oct. 25, 2019, over 1.2 million people marched in Santiago \u2014 460 protestors received eye injuries resulting from rubber bullets and pellets used against demonstrators by security forces. Most cases were treated by the Ocular Trauma Unit (UTO) of Hospital del Salvador in central Santiago. The victims are said to mark the biggest collective case of eye injuries in international medical history.<\/p>\n

Leighton began shooting footage at the UTO in an observational style in October 2019, focusing on a clutch of often very young victims, some of whom will be blinded for life. He weaves an intimate portrait of their ocular trauma, post-trauma, treatment, the impact of injury on their lives and their hopes for Chile\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s aim, its producers said, is to create a \u201chistorical memory,\u201d a \u201ccounter-history\u201d to official versions.<\/p>\n

The protests forced Chile\u2019s government to move to change a constitution inherited from Augusto Pinochet\u2019s dictatorship.<\/p>\n

\u201cEl Porvenir de la Mirada\u201d also tries to portray the experience lived by young people who decided to lead a citizens\u2019 uprising which is unprecedented in the recent history of Chile, Leighton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBelonging to a generation which didn\u2019t agree with many aspects of the transition to democracy in the \u201890s, frontally rejecting the constitution inherited from Pinochet,\u201d he added, \u201cI think it\u2019s necessary to listen, discuss and understand with sincerity why these young people had the strength to change an econ\u00f3mico, social and cultural system which my generation finally accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Variety JULY 6, 2021 Academy Award winner Sebasti\u00e1n Lelio (\u201cA Fantastic Woman\u201d) has signed on to associate produce \u201cEl Porvenir de la Mirada,\u201d a doc feature that captures the trauma of young protesters shot in the eyes by Chilean police during massive demonstrations erupting in Chile in October 2019. Lelio\u2019s boarding \u201cEl Porvenir de […]<\/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\/2350"}],"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=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}