Connected

Southern channels

Directed by:

Pilar Higuera Valencia / Cristóbal Arenas Rebolledo

Produced by:

Juan Francisco González

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.

  • Cristóbal

    Arenas Rebolledo

    Director

    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.

  • 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.

Other projects

Southern channels

Project Chile

Anna Borges do Sacramento

Project Brazil / Spain

Returning Where I Have Never Been

Project Chile

Like a flame lit on a dark night

Project Costa Rica

The Community of the Condemned

Project Bolivia

Unwelcomed

Project Chile

The criminal record of Madame Wittmann

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Dysphoria Football Club

Project Chile

Final Voyage

Project Chile

The little forensic

Project Mexico

The Conference

Project Chile

Mapurbekistan: Memory Stream

Project Chile

Just in Love / Amor y Punto

Project Brazil

Dyaspora

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An Invisible Lady

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The lost gold of the sea

Project Chile

The little girl

Project Chile

Landless Children

Project France / Chile

Normal life

Project Argentina

Magic Map of Chile

Project Chile

Beyond the cup

Project Mexico/ Colombia/ Brazil/ Vietnam/ Ethiopia/ Indonesia

Ruth

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Stronger Together

Project Mexico

The life that will come

Project Chile / Colombia

Krespita: The Final Battle

Project Chile / Argentina / Mexico / Japan

The Plan

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Mayan women: the strenght

Project Mexico

No money, no honey

Project Chile

Punta Arenazo

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Carmela and the Walkers

Project Ecuador

Outpost Men

Project Chile / Australia

Liliana and the wolves

Project Uruguay

It could be the last winter

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Ayllu

Project Peru / Poland

Giraffe dream

Project Ecuador / Chile

The inventory

Project Mexico

The Shadow of Yolüja

Project Colombia

Se’ K’o

Project Guatemala

The Letelier File

Project Chile

Bad Light

Project Argentina

Her profession: Photographer

Project Chile

Just ‘Cuz

Project Panama

The fable of the turtle and the flower

Project Uruguay

Cracks

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The Art of War

Project Peru

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Project Dominican Republic

The colony

Project Colombia

I can still hear your red glitter heels

Project Mexico

Lost Men

Project Costa Rica / Guatemala

Boca Vieja

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