{"id":2528,"date":"2021-07-30T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:03:00","slug":"chilean-documentary-takes-new-risks-at-docmontevideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/chilean-documentary-takes-new-risks-at-docmontevideo\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean documentary takes new risks at DocMontevideo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filmmakers with no fear of mixing documentary with fiction or animation in series conceived for more traditional TV formats, as well as streaming platforms; these are the features of the five Chilean series presented at DocMontevideo\u2019s market.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Andr\u00e9s D\u2019Avenia \u2013 LatAm<\/a>
\nJULY 26th, 2021<\/p>\n

\u201cPowerful new voices betting for current issues and new ways of putting together stories are arising in Chile. Fearless of mixing documentary with fiction or animation, taking risks and working with great professionalism\u201d, that is how Chiledoc\u2019s director Paula Ossand\u00f3n Cabrera, defined her country\u2019s series participation at DocMontevideo 2021, when interviewed by LatAm cinema.<\/p>\n

Besides, these are works pushed by \u00abexperienced and younger\u00bb production companies, focusing \u201cthe attention of industry agents and other producers.\u201d And when LatAm cinema consulted about interest at DocMontevideo\u2019s market, that was precisely one of the common denominators.<\/p>\n

After receiving the national production fund from the National Television Council (CNTV) last year, Extraordinary Ancestors<\/em> is being presented abroad for the first time. Looking to \u201cpin down meetings with sales and TV series and creation documentary distributor agents\u201d, it will be taking part of the Meetings, Kamila V\u00e9liz, executive producer (Totoral Films) explains. \u201cFinding coproducers at a Latin American level to create networks and strategic alliances that can join at different stages\u201d is one of their goals too. <\/p>\n

Each episode of the series invites \u201ca common person to discover an unknown ancestor with a thrilling life story\u201d through archives, interviewing family members and experts through different sources. Among those ancestors are \u201cforgotten heroes, extravagant women, pirates, slaves, marquises, sorcerers, and executioners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finishing its development stage, it will begin pre-producing in September, with eight 45 minutes\u2019 episodes for Chilean open television and Latin American platforms. <\/p>\n

About human movements and collective identities too, the series Chilepolis focuses on \u201cthe human right to migrate\u201d. \u201cMigrating for love, fleeing from wars, migrating in search of a better future. Each episode will show three migrants living in Chile. Who are the migrants today in Chile? How much of a migrant are we all?\u201d ask the producers in its synopsis. <\/p>\n

Chilepolis<\/em> brings up \u201ca deeper reflection on the value of migrants and cultural syncretism, exploring dreams and their protagonists\u2019 intimate life\u201d. \u201cKnocking down the idea that migrants are all the same, that they come from similar contexts and that their reasons to change countries are the same\u201d, the director Sim\u00f3n Vargas states. The filmmaker adds that considering the series takes place in Chile, \u00abit’s something that is happening all over the world\u201d. \u201cWe believe migration as a subject can\u2019t be forgotten, and it is urgent\u201d, he adds.<\/p>\n

Like Extraordinary ancestors<\/em>, it will have eight episodes, but only 25 minutes in length, also thought for open television. Selected for the Pitching, the producer Magdalena Hurtado (Tres Tercios) is looking to \u201cimprove our sales strategies for fundraising, introduce the project to possible players, and meet Latin American producers for a potential second season at a Latin American level\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cPowerful new voices betting for current issues and new ways of putting together stories are arising in Chile\u201d.<\/p>\n

Another series presented at the Pitching is Asphalt Farmers<\/em>, presented for a public audience for the first time. Her director and producer, Paulina Ferreti\u2019s (Tercermundo) idea is to \u201cdeepen the proposal by incorporating the workshop\u2019s feedback. And engaging production and distribution allies for the series, broadening funding and coproduction possibilities for the project in other countries in the continent\u201d, as the series is expected to be filmed in six different countries. <\/p>\n

The series \u201cportrays the most significant urban agricultural projects at six major cities in the continent, as natural and cultural space bridges. Their protagonists, who are part of those projects, will immerse us into their everyday struggles and the roads that took them to transform their lives and their communities\u2019 lives through these experiences\u201d, its synopsys explains. That is why as a series it has an international reach that \u201cwill disseminate inspiring stories, registering different socioeconomic and cultural contexts in the Latin American region, taking urban agriculture as a core\u201d.<\/p>\n

The series\u2019 team is preparing its local open television distribution and pay-per-view TV at a continental level, with environmental, culture, and news interests and streaming and other platforms. <\/p>\n

Also concerning community values, Earth Community<\/em> has four episodes in different Latin American countries (Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Colombia), and will be present at the Meetings. In this case, it\u2019s a finalized first season with four episodes, portraying life at four eco-villages and the stories of those who gave life to each project. As Ferreti, the director Juan Tamayo considers his series \u201craises a universal issue from its protagonists\u2019 reflections and experiences, promoting ecologic awareness in viewers.\u201d <\/p>\n

This production also received funding from the CNTV in 2018 and has been part of the Chiledoc Conecta\u2019s market, DocMontevideo 2018, and R\u00edo Content Market (Rio2C). Now, presented abroad, it is looking for \u201cdistribution and screens to be broadcasted in\u201d, considering \u201cit has been conceived for social and environmental content focused TV channels, besides streaming platforms.\u201d <\/p>\n

The last Chilean documentary series project at DocMontevideo is Physics Beauty: The Invisible Science, winner of the 2016 development CORFO fund, and selected at the FOX (NatGeo) Original Productions Contest pitch in 2017, at Camp4Science (Czech Republic), and MIC-Conce.<\/p>\n

At the core of this project are physics laws, as \u00ablaws essential to understand the Universe\u201d. Usually unseen as they are invisible \u201cuntil we manage to understand them, and they become beautiful. That is precisely the series\u2019 concept approach\u201d, as told in the presentation of the project. <\/p>\n

The series\u2019 host\/actor approaches issues like thermodynamics, DNA and genetic heritage, the Big Bang, black holes, Wi-Fi, or quantum physics using \u201ceveryday ideas, so family audiences can pleasantly understand these complex issues\u201d. To accomplish that, it uses \u201clive-action and integrated animation, with high production standards and great potential for educational purposes\u201d, as well as humor, the producer Gast\u00f3n Chedufau (Las Minas Smart Media) highlights. The scriptwriters Loreto Caro and Susana Quir\u00f3z (Jailbreak Pact<\/em>) and the director Rosario Jimenez Gili are also part of the team.<\/p>\n

The project is currently at advanced development stages. It has secured 20% of its budget with TVN channel, and \u201can international SVOD platform has shown interest in entering the coproducers pool as a financial gap\u201d, anticipates Chedufau. He also added that \u201ccurrently a spin-off of this series is being broadcasted in Chile and some platforms\u201d.<\/p>\n

For Ossand\u00f3n, these five series show a generalized tendency in her country’s documentary sector: \u201cThey are focusing industry agents and other producers\u2019 attention.\u201d In some cases, their presence at markets is becoming usual \u201cnot only in Latin America but also in the rest of the world, which is undoubtedly an important indicator\u201d. <\/p>\n

And precisely, Chiledoc is simultaneously part of this year’s DocMontevideo and Bogot\u00e1 Audiovisual Market (BAM). In the sectorial brand\u2019s director\u2019s words, \u201cpresence at both markets is essential as these are the most relevant industry events at a continental level, offering Chilean projects opportunities to find coproductions and commercialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filmmakers with no fear of mixing documentary with fiction or animation in series conceived for more traditional TV formats, as well as streaming platforms; these are the features of the five Chilean series presented at DocMontevideo\u2019s market. By Andr\u00e9s D\u2019Avenia \u2013 LatAm JULY 26th, 2021 \u201cPowerful new voices betting for current issues and new ways […]<\/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\/2528"}],"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=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}