{"id":3193,"date":"2022-05-17T18:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T22:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2022-05-23T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T22:47:42","slug":"chilean-auteur-exports-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/chilean-auteur-exports-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Auteur Exports Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Variety<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Led by a special screening slot for celebrated documentarian Patricio Guzman\u2019s \u201cMy Imaginary Country,\u201d plus Directors\u2019 Fortnights \u201c1976\u201d and a new short by 2018 Cin\u00e9fondation prizewinner Diego C\u00e9spedes in Critics\u2019 Week, Chile boats the biggest presence of any Latin American country at Cannes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur cinema is a living and pulsating entity, a cinema full of risky auteurist viewpoints that are capable of expressing our particular experiences in a universal way and at the same level playing field as bigger filmmaking territories, says CinemaChile executive director Constanza Arena, taking note of Chile\u2019s strong showing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe directors of a new wave of Chilean cinema take on powerful themes with deep socio-historical weight, but with fresh stylistically innovation, whether it\u2019s political trauma in \u20181976\u2019 by Manuela Martelli, or the LGBTQ+ theme in \u2018Las Criaturas que se Derriten Bajo el Sol\u2019 by C\u00e9spedes. With their daring, they are pushing forward a new generation of Chilean and Latin American cinema,\u201d Arena observes.<\/p>\n

Chile\u2019s Quijote Films also co-produces Directors\u2019 Fortnight title \u201cPamfir,\u201d a Ukrainian drama also from Poland\u2019s Madants and France\u2019s Les Films D\u2019Ici.<\/p>\n

While C\u00e9spedes, 27, prefers not to delve into Chile\u2019s past political trauma, Martelli, a renowned actress (\u201cMachuca,\u201d \u201cIl Futuro\u201d) whose directorial feature debut \u201c1976\u201d follows a middle-class woman who is inexorably drawn into the horrors of the Pinochet dictatorship, feels that the female gaze on this horrific period in Chile\u2019s history has been rarely explored.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the proliferation of film schools over the past 10 years in Chile, there certainly has been an upsurge of diverse viewpoints, including the feminine,\u201d she says, noting that there is a revitalized energy and freedom to dabble in new themes.<\/p>\n

Indeed, at least 10 Chilean films have already made an impact this year, from Oscar nominations for two (\u201cBestia,\u201d \u201cSpencer\u201d), a Sundance selection for Francesca Alegria\u2019s magical eco-themed \u201cThe Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future,\u201d Malaga and Rotterdam berths for Bernardo Quesney and Roberto Doveris, and Toulouse, Guadalajara and Tallinn Black Night prizes for Nicolas Postiglione\u2019s debut feature \u201cImmersion.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Postiglione, who spent the first 10 years of his life in the U.S. before moving to Chile, his stories are set in Chile but his sensibility and working style is American. \u201cI was then living in the U.S. so I\u2019d feel like an opportunist if I went down that road,\u201d he says on whether he\u2019d make a film about the period when Augusto Pinochet\u2019s brutal military regime ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.<\/p>\n

C\u00e9spedes, born five years after that dark era ended, belongs to Chile\u2019s new generation of filmmakers who are more influenced by the trends in world cinema and avail of new, inexpensive technology that has made filmmaking more accessible. His upcoming debut feature, not unlike his two shorts, are seen from a child\u2019s viewpoint. \u201cThe Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo\u201d is set in a mining camp beset by an unknown ailment.<\/p>\n

Alejandro Fernandez, best known for his Sundance-winning revenge thriller \u201cTo Kill a Man,\u201d is venturing into what he describes as metaphysical science fiction for his seventh film, \u201cThe Gray Beyond.\u201d \u201cI\u2019d been developing it since 2015 and the pandemic inspired some key changes,\u201d says Fernandez, who cites among his influences \u201cBlade Runner,\u201d \u201cAlien\u201d and Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s \u201cStalker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pandemic also had one other good outcome: more people discovered Chilean cinema,\u201d says his producer Florencia Larrea, who says that Onda Media, the streaming service offering only Chilean films, saw a boom in viewership. There\u2019s indeed a spirit of hope in the air, spurred by the pledge of President-elect Gabriel Boric, 35, to more than double the state\u2019s contribution to the arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Variety. Led by a special screening slot for celebrated documentarian Patricio Guzman\u2019s \u201cMy Imaginary Country,\u201d plus Directors\u2019 Fortnights \u201c1976\u201d and a new short by 2018 Cin\u00e9fondation prizewinner Diego C\u00e9spedes in Critics\u2019 Week, Chile boats the biggest presence of any Latin American country at Cannes. \u201cOur cinema is a living and pulsating entity, a cinema […]<\/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\/3193"}],"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=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}