For the third consecutive year, the British fund The Whickers is joining Conecta to present an award to one of the eight Latin American projects selected through an open call for first feature films. This partnership between Conecta and The Whickers provides a £3,000 incentive to the winning project.
Pitch The Whickers
Thursday, December 12 | 15:00 – 18:30 hrs
Sala Mundo, Simón Bolívar #2920, Ñuñoa
Open to the public.
* Registrations opening soon.
🎬 The selected projects are:
Ayllu
Ayllu
Three generations of women seek fortune in the Quechua media scene, but an illness and a racist media system complicate their dreams.
Director: Ximena Málaga Sabogal
Producers: Diana Castro Sánchez and Ximena Málaga Sabogal
Countries: Peru and Poland
Dyaspora
Dyaspora
The return is the utopia of the diaspora for Phenite, a Haitian mother facing the challenges of being a migrant in Brazil and French Guiana.
Directors: Alix Georges and Henrique Lahude
Producer: Sofia Vontobel
Country: Brazil
El arte de perder el tiempo
The Art of Wasting Time
An injured camerawoman and her artist mentor create surreal fantasies that defy death and recover the awe of the everyday.
Director: Camila Toro Cortez
Producers: Daniel Díaz Oyarzún and Esteban Sandoval Carrasco
Country: Chile
Fosfo
Phospho
The activist Guz Guevara fights against ableism by proposing a new social order that respects the diversity of all bodies.
Directors: Humberto Busto and Guz Guevara
Producer: Abril López Carrillo
Country: Mexico
La Colonia
The Colony
1955. The Colombian Air Force bombed the village of La Colonia with napalm, an event lost in history and censored by the government of the time.
Director: Álvaro Vásquez Miranda
Producer: Cesar Rodríguez
Country: Colombia
La Sombra de Yolüja
The Shadow of Yolüja
The dreams of the Pushaina indigenous family turn into nightmares under the shadow of Yolüja, an evil spirit unleashed by the coal mine.
Directors: Hanz Rippe and Fernanda Pineda
Producers: Fernanda Pineda and Hanz Rippe
Country: Colombia
Último Viaje
Final Voyage
Two inhabitants of the Patagonian channels venture into the world of humpback whales to tell their story and that of Taña, an unfortunate whale.
Director: Mariano Riveros Espiñeira
Producer: Margarita Poseck Menz
Country: Chile
Una Señora Invisible
An Invisible Lady
An audiovisual chronicle of Curacaví that follows the ghost of an elderly woman as she discovers the surroundings that made her invisible.
Director: Valentina Mac-Pherson
Producer: Francisco Hervé
Country: Chile
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