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.

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Southern channels

Project Chile

Unwelcomed

Project Chile

El Pantera

Project Colombia

Magic Map of Chile

Project Chile

Normal life

Project Argentina

Punta Arenazo

Project Chile

Ayllu

Project Peru / Poland

It could be the last winter

Project Chile

Uncomfortable Body

Project Uruguay

The lost gold of the sea

Project Chile

Beyond the cup

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

The little forensic

Project Mexico

An Invisible Lady

Project Chile

Portlight

Project Argentina

Scarlet Girls

Project Dominican Republic

Dysphoria Football Club

Project Chile

Inclusive Beach

Project Chile

Mom Lulú

Project Mexico / USA

Mayan women: the strenght

Project Mexico

Bad Light

Project Argentina

The Shadow of Yolüja

Project Colombia

Krespita: The Final Battle

Project Chile / Argentina / Mexico / Japan

I am my Grandma’s Granddaughter

Project Dominican Republic

Outpost Men

Project Chile / Australia

Lost Men

Project Costa Rica / Guatemala

The Winds’ Thirst

Project Colombia / Canada

Miss Architect

Project Argentina

MAMA

Project Ecuador

Liliana and the wolves

Project Uruguay

Returning Where I Have Never Been

Project Chile

No money, no honey

Project Chile

Like a flame lit on a dark night

Project Costa Rica

Giraffe dream

Project Ecuador / Chile

Landless Children

Project France / Chile

The Conference

Project Chile

Just in Love / Amor y Punto

Project Brazil

Cracks

Project Peru

PHOSPHO

Project Mexico

Anna Borges do Sacramento

Project Brazil / Spain

Ino Moxo The Healer’s Dream

Project Peru / Colombia

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Project Chile

Boca Vieja

Project Mexico

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Project Mexico

Se’ K’o

Project Guatemala

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Project Mexico

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Project Peru

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Just ‘Cuz

Project Panama

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