Connected

Southern channels

Directed by:

Pilar Higuera Valencia

Produced by:

Juan Francisco González / Cristóbal Arenas Rebolledo

Production Company

DOCLA

Contact:

  • Year

    2026

  • Format

    Advanced production

  • Length

    75 min

  • Country

    Chile

Synopsis

A group of children create a system to communicate with the islands in Chile’s southern south. As they play, they’re transmitting their voices and their soundscapes, while imagining the possibility of tuning in to Antarctica. Together, they will achieve their goal if they can get everyone on the channel to stay on the same frequency.

  • Pilar

    Higuera Valencia

    Director

    Journalist and audiovisual communicator. In charge of research for the feature film “La reinvención agraria” (2019). In 2020 co-directed her first short film “Aukinko, the echo of all of us». Since 2023 she’s been directing “Canales australes”, an original creation of AUSTRA Collective.

  • Juan Francisco

    González

    Producer

    Director for the short films MARIA K (2020) and FANTASMAGORÍA (2022), selected in Doclisboa and more than 60 festivals around the world with multiple awards. Producer for CUADERNO DE AGUA (2022), ESTALLIDO (2023) and co-producer of the feature film RAÍZ (2024) premiered at the Berlinale.

  • Cristóbal

    Arenas Rebolledo

    Producer

    Technical producer, Direct sound-engineer and sound designer for the transmedia project “Voces de Infancias Australes”, seasons 1, 2 and 3, and for the upcoming film, Canales australes.

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