CONECTA 11 presents a new selection of Latin American documentary feature films that will be part of this edition, focused on projects that are in the editing, post-production phase or that have completed their production during this year.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfac The selected projects are:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34 ARCHAEOLOGY OF TORTURE
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Countries: BRAZIL – URUGUAY – FRANCE
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: CARLA GALLO
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: RAFAELLA COSTA, MICAELA SOL\u00c9, CARLA GALLO & FLORE DE FONTAINIEU
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: As they excavate the premises of DOI-Codi, the main apparatus of repression during Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship, a group of archaeologists unearths some of the darkest chapters in the country\u2019s history. Interwoven with the excavations, archival materials and silenced stories evoke the political memory of the era and the dreams of a nation.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34 LIKE A FLAME BURNING IN THE DARK NIGHT
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Countries: COSTA RICA – ECUADOR
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: CAROLINA ARIAS ORTIZ
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: MICHELE FERRIS DOBLES
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: As public healthcare comes under threat, I return to Hospital Without Walls, the utopia my grandfather pioneered in Costa Rica\u2019s mountains. Through archives and the voices of women and rural communities, I explore the contradictions of a doctor, poet and patriarch, and an enduring dream: healthcare as a right for all.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34 THE CRIMINAL RECORD OF MADAME WITTMANN
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Country: CHILE
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: NICOL\u00c1S VIDELA
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: KEVIN MAGNE TAPIA, NICOL\u00c1S VIDELA & EVELYN WITTMANN
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: The return to Chile of the legendary transsexual vedette Evelyn Wittmann (73) will see her face her criminal record, while searching a lost documentary from 1969.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34 MIGRATORY STARS
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Countries: MEXICO – COLOMBIA
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: GIAN CASSINI
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: DAMIAN CANO Y BRENDA HINOJOSA CAMPOS
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: Bety and Vero are two migrants cast as non-professional actors in a film about the violence that drug cartels inflict upon migrants crossing through Mexico. This experience acts as a catalyst, prompting them to confront their pasts and embarking them on a journey where embracing their own identity becomes their greatest strength.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34 LEGACY
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Country: BRAZIL
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: ANA ARANHA
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: MARIANA GENESC\u00c1
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: A family rebuilds itself after the patriarch is murdered for exposing the harms of pesticide use. His firstborn lives torn between both sides of his legacy: the fear of following his fate and the desire to build a better world for her daughter, with health issues from contamination.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34 THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF A FILM WE NEVER SAW
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Country: PERU
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: CHRISTINE MLADIC JANNEY Y CLAUDIA CH\u00c1VEZ L\u00c9VANO
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: CLAUDIA CH\u00c1VEZ L\u00c9VANO Y CHRISTINE MLADIC JANNEY
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: Nora de Izcue, Peru\u2019s first female filmmaker, is searching for the original reels of Runan Caycu (1973), a documentary censored by the dictatorship. The film connected her with Latin American activist filmmakers, with whom she founded EICTV in Cuba. Today, her search takes on new urgency amid renewed threats of censorship in Peruvian cinema.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34 DEMOLITIONS
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Country: URUGUAY
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: MARIANA VI\u00d1OLES
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: CAROLINA CAMPO LUPO
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: After the news of the demolition of the house where she tried to build her own family, the director intends to revisit her story, marked by a violent childhood.
\nDigging into the family\u2019s photo album and videos she began filming at a very young age, she realizes that her life mirrors that of her mother.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34 MOTHER
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Country: PANAMA
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: ALEJANDRA GARC\u00cdA PE\u00d1A
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: SAID ISAAC
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: Forty years after her mother left Mexico to build a family in Panama, a filmmaker travels back with her, hoping to make the silence between them smaller and find the courage to reveal the part of herself she has always feared her mother might not accept.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd34I WILL DIE A CHILEAN
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Country: CHILE
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Dir: RAFAEL VALDEAVELLANO
\n\u25b6\ufe0f Prod: CAROLA FUENTES & SASJA OPDAM
\n\u25b6 \ufe0f Storyline: Fifty years after the car bomb that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier a mile from the White House, his four sons reconstruct his last three months of life: the summer of 1976, when, from exile, he mobilized the world against Pinochet, unaware that the dictatorship had already given the order to kill him.<\/p>\n
\u2139\ufe0f About CONECTA
\nCONECTA is an international meeting place for the documentary industry, addressed to filmmakers and producers from Latin America who have documentary projects in the development, editing, post-production or completed stages and who do not yet have a committed premiere.<\/p>\n
CONECTA is an event that brings together leading representatives of the audiovisual sector, both national and international, including professionals from funds, markets and festivals, distributors, sales agents, exhibitors, producers, programmers of television platforms and channels, among others.
\n\ud83d\udd17 Press and Communications: Pilar Subiabre | periodista@ccdoc.cl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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