{"id":9820,"date":"2025-11-05T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/?p=9820"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:33:14","slug":"eight-latin-american-projects-to-be-presented-at-pitch-the-whickers-in-santiago-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chileconecta.cl\/en\/noticias\/eight-latin-american-projects-to-be-presented-at-pitch-the-whickers-in-santiago-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Latin American Projects to Be Presented at Pitch The Whickers in Santiago, Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aimed at Latin American projects in development by filmmakers working on their first feature-length documentary<\/strong>, Pitch The Whickers returns to Conecta for the fourth consecutive year and will award \u00a33,000 to the winning project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pitch is an open event that will take place in December 2025 in Santiago, Chile. We congratulate the eight selected projects:<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5Ako<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountries: Mexico, Brazil
\nDir: Juan Pablo Monsalvo \/ Michelle Corona Pierce
\nProd: Max Lavalle M\u00fcggenburg
\nAko Kamanawa, from the Noke Koi Amazonian tribe, leaves the jungle hoping to share his sacred medicine. But instead, he is used to transport Ayahuasca and spends a year imprisoned in Mexico. On conditional release, he faces a system that criminalizes his culture and finds a family while searching for his place between two worlds.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5Exotic<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountries: Uruguay, Chile
\nDir: Mariana Casti\u00f1eiras
\nProd: Nicol\u00e1s Sequeira \/ Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz Merino
\nAn exotic deer species multiplies uncontrollably across Uruguay. A park ranger devises a plan to stop them without killing, while a Brazilian businesswoman who feels a spiritual connection with the animals vows to protect them, and a farming couple begin hunting to preserve their livelihood. Who decides who lives and who dies?<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5Undetectable<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Marina Vergueiro
\nProd: Felipe Tomazelli \/ Ricardo Martensen
\nBased on a dialogue between Marina and her 9-year-old self, the film intertwines childhood memories with the present, 15 years after her HIV diagnosis. Using VHS archives, it traces the epidemic\u2019s timeline and shows that stigma persists. Together with six cis and trans women, they turn pain into art and find in feminist sisterhood a path to healing.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5The Opposite Direction<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Argentina
\nDir: Julia Castro
\nProd: Fernando Dominguez
\nThe snow-covered, overgrown ruins of Dr. Ronald Richter mark the beginning of the search for a clean, inexhaustible energy source. This is a forgotten story about the future.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5The Island in Silence<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Mexico
\nDir: Mario Trujillo
\nProd: Carlos G Garc\u00eda
\nAbraham, Karla, and Jos\u00e9, three young journalists, evoke the hope that came to Cuba in 2015 with widespread internet access: a spark that amplified their voices but also revealed the shadows that drove them to leave their country. Between memory and exile, their journey reveals the human cost of finding a voice on an island of silence, and the resilience of those who, even from afar, continue to tell the stories born in a park with a fragile Wi-Fi signal.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5Miami Betrayer<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountries: Argentina, United States
\nDir: Sol Purri\u00f1os
\nProd: Mariano Pozzi
\nMiami Betrayer follows Tatiana, a dancer at Miami’s most iconic strip club. Through the lens of her best friend, the documentary explores empowerment, vulnerability, and the relationship between reality and performance. The story reflects on long-distance friendship, social taboos, and personal contradictions.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5The Last Guat\u00f3<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Brazil
\nDir: Thamys Trindade
\nProd: Sofia Vontobel
\nThe Last Guat\u00f3 is a poetic documentary set in Brazil\u2019s Pantanal, where a river both separates and connects Seu Vicente, the last fluent speaker of his language, and Francisca, a young teacher. Together, they fight to revive their voice before it disappears.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5Pel\u00edcula Sin Fin, 1995<\/a><\/strong>
\nCountry: Chile
\nDir: Elisa Leiva Anderson
\nProd: Elisa Leiva Anderson
\nAfter the death of my grandmother, the human rights lawyer Fabiola Letelier, I found a box of Hi-8 tapes in her closet. The footage from an unfinished film about her life, made in 1995, uncovers how history is both recorded and invented, existing between the archive and the imagination.<\/p>\n

In the coming weeks, we will announce the projects selected for Conectados, Conecta con la Distribuci\u00f3n, Taller Conecta con las Series, and Conecta con tus Ra\u00edces.<\/strong><\/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":"

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