{"id":10562,"date":"2025-12-01T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:21:02","slug":"14-projects-selected-for-connect-with-distribution-in-santiago-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/noticias\/14-projects-selected-for-connect-with-distribution-in-santiago-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"14 projects selected for Connect with Distribution in Santiago, Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"

These Latin American feature-length documentaries will be participating in this section of CONECTA 10. This category is aimed at projects in the editing or post-production stage, or those completed this year.<\/strong> The projects selected for the Connect with Distribution<\/strong> section are:<\/p>\n

The Fabulous Time Machine<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Eliza Capai
\nProd: Mariana Genesc\u00e1
\nStoryline: Clara (25), a young shaman in spiritual development, returns to Maraj\u00f3 Island, in Brazilian Amazon, to fulfill her spiritual duties within the pajelan\u00e7a cabocla tradition. Accompanied by a group of apprentice shamans, Clara goes through a moment of doubt and longing on the eve of her coronation as a shaman.<\/p>\n

The young shaman<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Rodrigo Antonio
\nProd: Carlos Barbosa
\nStoryline: Clara (25), a young shaman in spiritual development, returns to Maraj\u00f3 Island, in Brazilian Amazon, to fulfill her spiritual duties within the pajelan\u00e7a cabocla tradition. Accompanied by a group of apprentice shamans, Clara goes through a moment of doubt and longing on the eve of her coronation as a shaman.<\/p>\n

Where the Sun is Born<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Honduras
\nDir: Laura Berm\u00fadez y Jorge Garc\u00eda
\nProd: Servio Tulio Mateo
\nStoryline: Jorge Garc\u00eda embarks on a spiritual and sensory journey toward his Afro-Caribbean roots. A revelation drives him to seek closure and reconnect with his ancestors, finding strength in the collective memory and resilience of his people.<\/p>\n

Looking for Bari\u015f<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Argentina and Colombia
\nDir: Luna Mato Chague y Martina Cruz
\nProd: Sarah Fernandez Oks
\nStoryline: Coca, an Argentine grandmother, falls in love for the second time in her life. She firmly believes that her late husband, Cacho, has reincarnated as Bar\u0131\u015f, a famous Turkish soap opera actor. Driven by her desire, she decides to travel to Istanbul with her granddaughter to find him.<\/p>\n

Jailers<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Julia Hannud
\nProd: Sabrina Zimmermann
\nStoryline: The fear and constant surveillance at work reveal a system that even confines its female JAILERS.<\/p>\n

Smell of Diesel<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Gizele Martins y Natasha Neri
\nProd: Mariana Genesc\u00e1 e Gabriel Medeiros
\nStoryline: Smell of Diesel portrays the collective traumas caused by the militarization of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro occupied by the Armed Forces. Through voices from within the communities, the film documents the struggle for justice and reparation by victims of human rights violations, which continue to be perpetrated by the Brazilian Army.<\/p>\n

A Place of Absence<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Bolivia y United States
\nDir: Marialuisa Ernst
\nProd: Marialuisa Ernst Co-Productora Brenda Avila
\nStoryline: \u200b\u200bDecades after her uncle\u2019s disappearance during Argentina\u2019s Dirty War, a filmmaker joins the Caravan of Mother, a group of Central American women traveling the migrant trail in search of loved ones who vanished trying to cross the US-Mexico border<\/p>\n

That soul stealing device<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Paraguay
\nDir: Giuliano Franco Ochipinti
\nProd: Juanjo Pereira
\nStoryline: Starting with the long-unseen photographs Italian ethnographer Guido Boggiani captured of the Ishir-Tomaraho in late 19th-century Paraguay, this film, over a century later, turns them into a powerful tool to deconstruct the colonial gaze that still defines how Indigenous are visually portrayed. <\/p>\n

Landless Children<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: France and Chile
\nDir: Ren\u00e9 Ballesteros
\nProd: Camille Laeml\u00e9, Nicole Bonilla, Johanne Schatz
\nStoryline: Two Chileans adopted in Europe embark on a journey. Daniel was declared dead at birth; Juan dreams of a wounded woman. Both seek to understand their origins, find a mother, and reconstruct their stories. Landless Children is an invitation to a journey\u2014both mental and physical\u2014into the depths of a forgotten land.<\/p>\n

I absolutely refuse<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Mexico
\nDir: Nina Wara Carrasco G\u00f3mez
\nProd: Lourdes Manzano L\u00f3pez
\nStoryline: In 2015, my cousin Andrea was murdered by her partner in La Paz, Bolivia; this made me realize it could have happened to me. Through her story, the silence in my family was broken, and we began to speak about our experiences of violence.
\nTogether, we tried to understand how to keep resisting and how to heal our history.<\/p>\n

I Will Never be a Cop<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Carolina Moscoso
\nProd: Camila Jos\u00e9 Donoso
\nStoryline: A film essay that begins with my uncle Jorge\u2019s archive of our family of cops. The film creates a dialogue between those images and my own recordings in which I imitate him. I question the inheritance of policing, the act of filming, and a political process through editing. But in my everyday life, love distracts me, emotions take over the film.<\/p>\n

The Harpsichordist<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Luiz Eduardo Oz\u00f3rio
\nProd: Luiz Eduardo Oz\u00f3rio
\nStoryline: On the eve of turning one hundred, maestro and harpsichordist Roberto De Regina revisits his memories and reflects on his pioneering legacy of reintroducing early music in Brazil, while facing prejudice and resistance. A sensitive journey about art, time, and the courage to break barriers.<\/p>\n

The Wind Will Blow<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Delvair Montagner, Marcelo D\u00edaz
\nProd: Marcelo D\u00edaz
\nStoryline: Var\u1fd6 M\u00ebma, an anthropologist and a Marubo Indigenous woman, is no longer recognized as one of her own people. Paradoxically, she is also an outsider in the academic world. Delvair, an anthropologist who witnessed her birth in the 1970s, seeks to reconnect with Var\u1fd6 \u2014 and with the memories of an Amazon that no longer exists.<\/p>\n

The Stationary Traveler<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Fernando Lavanderos y Sebasti\u00e1n Pereira
\nProd: Francisco Herv\u00e9 y Karla Falc\u00f3n
\nStoryline: Two filmmakers propose to Cristi\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez, a Chilean cult director, to make a film. The condition is that he must bring the characters from his classic works back to life, but as zombies. He struggles to protect his artistic principles but ends up trapped in his own movie.<\/p>\n

About Conecta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conecta is an international documentary industry event aimed at Latin American producers and filmmakers with documentary projects in development, editing, post-production, or completed but not yet premiered.
\nThe meeting brings together national and international industry professionals, including representatives from funds, markets, and festivals; distributors, sales agents, exhibitors; as well as platform and television programmers, and producers.<\/p>\n

Press Contact<\/strong>
\nNatalia Raipan | periodista@ccdoc.cl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These Latin American feature-length documentaries will be participating in this section of CONECTA 10. This category is aimed at projects in the editing or post-production stage, or those completed this year. The projects selected for the Connect with Distribution section are: The Fabulous Time Machine Country: Brazil Dir: Eliza Capai Prod: Mariana Genesc\u00e1 Storyline: Clara […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10566,"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions\/10566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}