Cinema of Chile
| Cinema of Chile | |
|---|---|
| No. of screens | 347 (2013)[1] |
| * Per capita | 2.0 per 100,000 (2011)[2] |
| Main distributors | Andes Films 28.0% UIP 22.0% Warner 19.0%[3] |
| Produced feature films (2011)[4] | |
| Fictional | 13 (56.4%) |
| Animated | 3 (1.2%) |
| Documentary | 10 (43.5%) |
| Number of admissions (2013)[1] | |
| Total | 21,019,442 |
| National films | 1,914,511 (9.1%) |
| Gross box office (2013)[1] | |
| Total | CLP 62 billion |
| National films | CLP 6.6 billion (10.7%) |
Chilean cinema refers to all films produced in Chile or made by Chileans. It had its origins at the start of the 20th century with the first Chilean film screening in 1902 and the first Chilean feature film appearing in 1910. The oldest surviving feature is El Husar de la Muerte (1925), and the last silent film was Patrullas de Avanzada (1931). The Chilean film industry struggled in the late 1940s and in the 1950s, despite some box-office successes such as El Diamante de Maharaja. The 1960s saw the development of the "New Chilean Cinema", with films like Three Sad Tigers (1968), Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969) and Valparaiso mi amor (1969). After the 1973 military coup, film production was low, with many filmmakers working in exile. It increased after the end of the Pinochet regime in 1989, with occasional critical and/or popular successes such as Johnny cien pesos (1993), Historias de Futbol (1997) and Gringuito (1998).
Greater box office success came in the late 1990s and early 2000s with films like El Chacotero Sentimental: la pelicula (1999), Sexo con Amor (2003), Sub Terra (2003), and Machuca (2004) all of which were surpassed by Stefan v/s Kramer (2012) and Sin filtro (2016).
In recent years, Chilean films have made increasingly regular appearances at international film festivals, with No (2012) becoming the first Chilean film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and A Fantastic Woman (2017) the first to win it.[5]
History
[edit]Origins
[edit]On 17 February 1895 entrepreneur Francisco de Paula Casajuana Granada presented the first Kinetoscope, an early motion picture exhibition device, in Santiago. Next year, on 25 August 1896, the first Cinematographe reels were shown to an astounded audience in Santiago. These were the same movies that only eight months earlier, the Lumiere Brothers had shown in Paris.[6]
In the north of Chile, the Potassium nitrate mining industry created enough wealth to allow cities like Antofagasta and Iquique some privileges rare in other parts of the country. In Iquique, photographer Luis Oddo Osorio was enthralled by this new technology and started to create his own short films. On 20 May 1897, he screened the short documentary "Una cueca en Cavancha"[7] in the Great Philharmonic Hall on Tarapaca Street. Osorio followed his first short with "El desfile en honor del Brasil",[8] "La llegada de un tren de pasajeros a la estacion de Iquique",[9] "Bomba Tarapaca No7"[10] and "Grupo de gananciosos en la partida de football".[11]
In 1897, some circuses began to screen movies, which attracted great interest at first but soon trailed off due to the lack of new material. In the same year in Santiago, two new movie venues opened which both featured Edison's Vitascope, less popular than the Cinematographe. In June that year, the Bioscop was also launched as another alternative to the cinematographe, although it eventually failed. By the end of the year, all these new places would be closed.
In 1900, the Apollo Theatre in Santiago exhibited the film "Carreras en Vina", (Racing in Vina) and some other foreign films. The exact date that the films screened and further details of this event remain unknown.
In the port city of Valparaiso, the first film ever fully produced in Chile was launched at the Teatro ODEON on 26 May 1902.[12] The film, Ejercicio General del Cuerpo de Bomberos[13] (General Practice of the Fire Department), filmed on 20 May the same year, was only three minutes long and showed the annual public show performed by the Valparaiso Fire Department in the city's Anibal Pinto square. Nothing is known of the film's director, cinematographer or production team, and only 27 seconds of footage remain today, held by the Catholic University of Valparaiso.[14]
In 1903, "Un paseo por playa ancha" (A walk through Playa Ancha) was filmed in Valparaiso by Maurice Albert Massonnier. The film is split into three parts. First, a huaso charges into the scene, causing some commotion among the people around, and dances the traditional Chilean cueca accompanied by musicians. This is followed by a scene where the characters eat a Chilean Cazuela. Finally, in the last scene, a fight breaks but is quickly controlled by a guard. Maurice Albert Massonnier was sent to Chile by the Lumiere Brothers' company, one of many sent around the world to document and produce films for them. After screening his film in Chile, Massonnier sent the film to Paris, where several copies were made. One of those copies was found in 1994 by Chilean film restorer Daniel Sandoval in an archive on Bois-d'Arcy.[15] "Un paseo por playa ancha" is now the oldest surviving Chilean movie. Massonier ended up settling in Chile and made his own production company, "Empresa Massonnier y Ca".
The silent era
[edit]Film production boomed in Chile in the silent era, with 78 films released between 1910 and 1931. The first full-length film, Manuel Rodriguez, was released in 1910. Directed by Adolfo Urzua, and starring Nicanor de la Sotta, it told the story of Manuel Rodriguez Erdoiza, who fought for Chile's independence from Spain until his death in 1818.[16]
Among the many Chilean directors who took up the art in this period - Salvatore Giambastini, Juan Perez Berrocal, Jorge "Coke" Delano, Nicanor de la Sotta, Carlos Borcosque and Alberto Santana - one name in particular stands out for film historians: Pedro Sienna, a former stage actor who went on to direct and act in some of the best films of the age.[16] It was Sienna who wrote, directed and starred in the first Chilean feature-length film that has survived to this day, El Husar de la Muerte (The Hussar of the Dead).
Premiered in Santiago on 24 November 1925, El Husar de la Muerte - like Adolfo Urzua's eponymous Manuel Rodriguez - tells the story of Manuel Rodriguez Erdoiza. The film was restored in 1962 by the University of Chile's film archive, with a musical soundtrack by well-known Chilean composer and pianist Sergio Ortega. El Husar de la Muerte was shown in the Treasures from the Archives category of the 2005 London Film Festival. Critic Carolina Robino described El Husar de la Muerte in BBC Mundo as "an extremely refined film for its era. The visual imagery has an extraordinary richness. Sienna plays masterfully with the time-shifts, with the subjective view of the characters and with their thoughts. Without words, it tells an epic story with exquisite touches of humor and provides an accurate description of Chilean colonial society."[17]
The last silent movie produced in Chile was Patrullas de Avanzada (Advanced Patrol), directed by Eric Page and released in 1931.[16]
1940s and 1960s
[edit]In 1942, the Chilean Production Development Corporation (Spanish: "Corporacion de Fomento de la Produccion" or CORFO) created the Chile Films project, which provided filmmakers with technical resources and supported the Chilean film industry. One of the films supported by the CORFO is the film animated titled 15 mil dibujos.[18] Despite this, the industry began to struggle in the late 1940s with some studios experiencing financial difficulties. Large sums of money were spent on cinematic "super-productions" to attract foreign directors, but most failed to make a profit.[16] One film which did buck the trend, however, was adventure-comedy El Diamante de Maharaja (The Maharaja Diamond), starring comedian Lucho Cordoba, which was a box-office hit.
The low-output trend continued into the 1950s, with only 13 films released in Chile over the course of the decade. Towards the end of the 1950s, however, two films appeared which gave a taste of the new wave of socially conscious cinema that would sweep Chile in the 1960s: Naum Kramarenko's Tres miradas a la calle (Three Views of the Street, 1957) and Deja que los perros ladren (Let the Dogs Bark, 1961).[16]
The "New Chilean Cinema", 1960s-1989
[edit]In the 1960s, a vibrant national film culture developed which came to be known as the "New Chilean Cinema" (Spanish: Nuevo Cine Chileno). An experimental film department was founded at the University of Chile, along with a Film Institute at the Catholic University of Chile. The industry also received support from the revitalised Chile Films project which had begun in the 1940s,[19] and saw an increasing demand for film permits in Chile as more filmmakers sought to capture the country's evolving social landscape. During this period, young directors such as Raul Ruiz, Patricio Guzman, Aldo Francia, Helvio Soto and Miguel Littin emerged, along with a new genre inspired by social and political currents on the 1960s, the documentary.[16]
The first ever "Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano" (New Latin American Film Festival) took place in Vina del Mar in 1967. Shortly afterwards some of the most important films from the New Chilean Cinema period were released: veteran Patricio Kaulen's Largo viaje (1967), Raul Ruiz's Three Sad Tigers (1968), Miguel Littin's Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969), Aldo Francia's Valparaiso mi amor (1969) and Helvio Soto's Caliche sangriento (1969).[16]
Politics was a key theme for Chilean cinema in the 1960s and beyond, as it was for similar movements in other South American countries (the Cinema Novo of Brazil and the Nueva Cinema of Argentina) and for Chilean movements in other fields of the arts, such as the Nueva Cancion Chilena (New Chilean Song). "This left-wing Chilean filmmakers' movement cannot be understood without connecting it to the emerging social and political identity of the American continent", states the Chilean cultural website Memoria Chilena.[20]
The 1973 military coup drove many filmmakers abroad, where they continued to make films reflecting on and criticising the Chilean military government under Augusto Pinochet. Memoria Chilena says: "The premises of the Nuevo Cine did not die with the massive exile of filmmakers. Instead they were reinterpreted in the cinema of exile as protest against the repression under the military regime or expressing nostalgia for the shattered revolution." Some of the best known include The Promised Land (1973), Il pleut sur Santiago (1975), Dialogues of Exiles (1975), Actas de Marusia (1975), Cantata de Chile (1976), Noch nad Chili (1977), The Battle of Chile (1979), Marilu Mallet's Journal inacheve (1982), Angelina Vasquez's Presencia lejana (1982) and Acta General de Chile (1986).[20]
Transition post-dictatorship, 1989-1999
[edit]Film production within Chile was relatively low throughout the military regime, with most filmmakers working in exile, but began to increase again when the regime ended in 1989. In 1992, the FONDART national art fund was established which would go on to support some 90% of Chilean feature-length films made since its creation. Although many films released in the late 1980s and early 1990s received both public and critical acclaim, including Johnny Cien Pesos (Hundred Peso Johnny, 1993) by Gustavo Graef-Marino; Historias de Futbol (Soccer Stories, 1997) the debut film from Andres Wood and Gringuito (1998) by Sergio Castilla, Chilean movies struggled to compete with international films for audience numbers.[16]
The next decade saw this trend begin to change. The more commercial 1999 release El Chacotero Sentimental (The Sentimental Joker), by Cristian Galaz, broke Chilean box office records.[16]
International awards since 2000
[edit]Since 2000, Chilean films were box-office successes like Jorge Olguin's Angel Negro (Black Angel, 2000) and Alejandro Rojas' Ogu y Mampato en Rapa Nui (Ogu and Mampato on Easter Island, 2002). In 2003, the comedy Sexo con Amor (Sex with Love) by Boris Quercia set a new national box office record which would remain unbroken until 2012.[16] Chilean films also began to win awards at noted international festivals. Silvio Caiozzi's Coronacion (Coronation, 2000) won prizes at the Montreal, Huelva, Cartagena and Havana film festivals; Andres Wood's La Fiebre del Loco (Abalone Fever, 2001) won at Cartagena and Lleida; and Taxi Para Tres (Taxi For Three, 2001) by Orlando Lubbert won at Cartagena, Havana, Mar del Plata, Miami and San Sebastian.[16]
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos founded the National Council of Culture and the Arts in 2003 and, since 2005, FONDART has been supplemented by additional competitive State funds which are allocated to encourage film production, distribution, literacy and heritage through the Consejo del Arte y la Industria Audiovisual (CAIA) and the Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual.
- A Cab for Three (Taxi para tres, 2002), directed by Orlando Lubbert.
Nominated for Best Ibero-American Film (Mejor Pelicula Iberoamericana) in the Ariel Awards. Nominated for Best Film (Mejor Pelicula) at the Cartagena Film Festival and won two "India Catalina" awards there, for Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay. Nominated for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film at the Goya Awards . Won Golden Kikito for Best Actor in the Latin Film section of the Festival de Gramado, and nominated for Best Film overall. Won three awards at the Havana Film Festival: Best Screenplay; Glauber Rocha Award - Special Mention; and the Grand Coral - Third Prize, all presented to Lubbert. Won Favorite Film at the MTV Movie Awards, Latin America. Won Best Screenplay at the Lima Latin American Film Festival. Awarded with a Special Mention for Best Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. Won the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival. Won the Golden Seashell in the San Sebastian International Film Festival.[21][22]
- Machuca, 2004, by Andres Wood.
Won Most Popular International Film at the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival.[23] Nominated for the Ariel Award, the Mexican Academy of Film awards, in the Best Iberoamerican Film category. In 2005, won the PFS Award at the Political Film Society Awards.[24] Won Best Cinematography - Gran Premio Coral in the Havana Film Festival, Cuba. Won Best Narrative Latin American Film in the FICCO, Mexico. Won the audience award at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Won the Golden Circle Award at the Bogota International Film Festival. Won Best Film at the Valdivia International Film Festival. Was voted Most Popular Film in the Vancouver International Film Festival.
- Tony Manero, 2008, directed by Pablo Larrain.
Won the top prize at the 2008 Torino Film Festival. Was Chile's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[25][26] In 2009, won the Golden Tulip - Best Film at the Istanbul International Film Festival. Won two of its three nominations at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema for the Best Actor and for the FEISAL Award. Won Best Actor at the Cinemanila International Film Festival Won two prizes at the Havana Film Festival, Best Actor and the Grand Coral - First Prize. Received a Special Mention in the Ibero-American Competition of the Miami Film Festival. Won a KNF Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival Won a Special Jury Award in the Free Spirit Competition at the Warsaw International Film Festival.
- The Maid[27] 2009, directed by Sebastian Silva.
Won the World Cinema: Dramatic prize at Sundance in 2009 Won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010. Won the Golden India Catalina prize for Best Actress at the Cartagena Film Festival for Catalina Saavedra. Won "Breakthrough Actress" for Saavedra at the Gotham Independent Film Awards Won Best Actress for Saavedra at the Lleida Latin-American Film Festival, along with Best Film. Won Best Narrative Film at the Sarasota Film Festival. Won the Talent Tape Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival. Received a Special Mention at the Taipei Film Festival. Won the Critics Award and the Elcine First Prize - Best Film at the Latin American Film Festival. Won the Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. Won the Colon de Oro for Best Feature film at the Huelva Latin American Film Festival. Won the FIPRESCI Prize - Best Film in the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Sebastian Silva also won the Inspiration Award, the International Film Guide Inspiration Award and the Jordan Alexander Kressler Screenwriting Award, and Catalina Saavedra received a Special Mention - Best Actress - Ibero-American Competition in the Miami International Film Festival. The film has also been nominated for awards in several other major film festivals.[28]
- The Life of Fish, 2010, directed by Matias Bize.
Selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards,[29] but didn't make the final shortlist.[30] Won the Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (Mejor Pelicula Hispanoamericana) in the Goya Awards. Won the Jury Award - Best Director at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival Nominated for Best feature Film at Oslo Films from the South Festival.
- Nostalgia for the Light, 2010, a documentary by Patricio Guzman.
Debuted as part of the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Went on to appear at the Toronto International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Miami International Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Won European Film Award for Best Documentary, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (2011) won Jury Award for Best Documentary.[31] Winner Best Documentary, 2010 Abu Dhabi Film Festival[31]
- Bonsai, 2011, directed by Cristian Jimenez, based on Alejandro Zambra's[32] book of the same name.
Premiered at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.[33][34] and was nominated for the Un Certain Regard Award. Won the FIPRESCI Prize - Best Film at the Havana Film Festival. Won the Grand Jury Prize - Knight Ibero-American Competition at the Jordan Alexander Kressler Screenwriting Award at the Miami Film Festival. Nominated for the Horizons Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
- Violeta Went to Heaven, 2012, directed by Andres Wood.
Won the World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival.[35] Nominated for the Silver Ariel - Best Latin-American Film (Mejor Pelicula Iberoamericana) at the Ariel Awards. Nominated for the Silver Condor - Best Foreign Film and Best Spanish Language Film (Mejor Pelicula Iberoamericana) at the Argentine Film Critics Association Film Awards. Nominated for the Grand Prize - Best Music at the Grande Premio do Cinema Brasileiro.[36] Won the FIPRESCI Prize - Best Film and the Mayahuel Award - Best Actress at the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Nominated for the Art Cinema Award at the Hamburg Film Festival. Won the Grand Coral - Second Prize - Best Film at the Havana Film Festival. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and received a Special Mention in the Miami Film Festival. Nominated for the Films from the South Award - Best Feature, at the Oslo Films from the South Festival Nominated as Best Iberoamerican Film at the Goya Awards. Represented Chile at 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards but did not make the final shortlist
- Young and Wild, 2012, directed by Marialy Rivas.
Won a World Cinema Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012[37] Alicia Rodriguez won the Colon de Plata award - Best Actress at the Huelva Latin American Film Festival[38] and Marially Rivas was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema - Dramatic[39] Won the Sebastiane Award and was nominated for the Horizons Award at San Sebastian International Film Festival.
- Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, 2012, directed by Sebastian Silva.
Won the Directing Award (World Cinema Dramatic) at Sundance 2013,[40] and was also nominated for the World Cinema - Dramatic award in the Grand Jury Prize. Nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards, the John Cassavetes Award, and the Independent Spirit Award in 2013.
- No, 2012, directed by Pablo Larrain.
In 2013, became the first Chilean movie to be nominated for Best Foreign Picture at the Academy Awards. Nominated for Best Iberoamerican Movie at the Ariel Awards. Won Best Fictional Film - Premio Coral at the Havana Film Festival Won the Art Cinema Directors' Fortnight Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Won Best Foreign Film at the Georgia Film Critics Association in 2014. Nominated for the Art Cinema Award at the Hamburg Film Festival. Nominated for the BFI London Film Festival awards in 2012. Won an NBR Award at the National Board of Review. Nominated for the SDFCS Award at the San Diego Film Critics Society. Won Best Foreign Feature Film - Audience Award at the 2012 Sao Paulo International Film Festival Won the Audience Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.[41]
- Gloria, 2013, directed by Sebastian Lelio.
Won the Films in Progress Award - Best Film[42] at the 2012 San Sebastian International Film Festival, before its official release. In 2013: Won the Guild of German Art House Cinemas Prize, the Ecumenical Jury Prize, and the Silver Berlin Bear (for Paulina Garcia) at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it was also nominated for the Golden Bear. Won Best Film at the Mumbai International Film Festival. Won the Silver Ariel - Best Latin-American Film at the Ariel Awards. In 2014: Nominated for the Best Spanish Language Foreign Film at the 28th Goya Awards . Nominated for Best Actress (for Paulina Garcia) and Best Film - EuroCinema Hawaii Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival. Nominated for Best Foreign Film in the Independent Spirit Awards. Won Best Foreign Language Film at the London Film Critics' Circle. Won the Top Foreign Film Award in the National Board of Review Awards 2013. Won the NBR Award at the National Board of Review, USA. Won a Cine Latino Award - Special Mention and was nominated for the Cine Latino Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Won three Platino awards - Best Film, Best Actress and Best Screenplay - and was nominated for Best Director.
- Nahuel and the Magic Book, 2020, directed by German Acuna Delgadillo
Won the Award of Excellence in Tokyo Anime Award Festival and Best Animated Feature in Chilemonos In 2020: Nominated in Annecy International Animation Film Festival Nominated in SCHLINGEL; In 2021: Nominated in NYICFF Nominated in TAAFI Nominated in Stockholm Children's Film Festival Nominated in Premios Quirino - Best Animation, Best Original Sound and Music, Best Character Designs and Best Animated Feature
- To Kill a Man (2014)
- Bear Story (2014)
- The Club (2015)
- El boton de nacar (2015)
- Rara (2016)
- Mala junta (2016)
- Neruda (2016)
- A Fantastic Woman (2017)
- The Dogs (2017)
- Too Late to Die Young (2018)
- And Suddenly the Dawn (2018)
- The Prince (2019)
- Ema (2019)
- Jailbreak Pact (2020)
- My Tender Matador (2020)
- Nobody Knows I'm Here (2020)
- Immersion (2021)
- Blanquita (2022)
- 1976 (2022)
- The Settlers (2023)
- El Conde (2023)
- Prison in the Andes (2023)
- In Her Place (2024)
Well-known directors
[edit]- Pedro Sienna
- Carlos Borcosque
- Jorge Delano
- Eugenio de Liguoro
- Jose Bohr
- Tito Davison
- Miguel Frank
- Naum Kramarenco
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Patricio Kaulen
- Pedro Chaskel
- Sergio Bravo
- Aldo Francia
- Helvio Soto
- Claudio Guzman
- Carlos Flores del Pino
- Rolando Klein
- Alvaro Covacevich
- Patricio Guzman
- Miguel Littin
- Raul Ruiz
- Valeria Sarmiento
- Pablo Perelmann
- Silvio Caiozzi
- Orlando Lubbert
- Sebastian Alarcon
- Ignacio Aguero
- Cristian Sanchez
- Gonzalo Justiniano
- Sergio Castilla
- Carmen Castillo
- Andres Wood
- Cristian Galaz
- Boris Quercia
- Alberto Fuguet
- Alexander Witt
- Carmen Luz Parot
- Alejandro Fernandez Almendras
- Jorge Olguin
- Alicia Scherson
- Sebastian Sepulveda
- Alejandro Amenabar
- Marcela Said
- Jose Luis Torres Leiva
- Cristian Jimenez
- Matias Lira
- Pablo Larrain
- Marialy Rivas
- Sebastian Lelio
- Ernesto Diaz Espinoza
- Matias Bize
- Sebastian Silva
- Patricio Valladares
- Nicolas Lopez
- Maite Alberdi
- Dominga Sotomayor Castillo
- German Acuna
- Francisca Alegria
Well-known actresses
[edit]- Rosita Serrano
- Hilda Sour
- Ana Gonzalez Olea
- Belgica Castro
- Malu Gatica
- Delfina Guzman
- Shenda Roman
- Chela Bon
- Myriam Palacios
- Gloria Munchmeyer
- Maria Elena Duvauchelle
- Claudia Di Girolamo
- Paulina Garcia
- Valentina Vargas
- Amparo Noguera
- Marcela Osorio
- Catalina Saavedra
- Tamara Acosta
- Antonia Zegers
- Leonor Varela
- Antonella Rios
- Blanca Lewin
- Paz Bascunan
- Cote de Pablo
- Paola Lattus
- Fernanda Urrejola
- Manuela Martelli
- Daniela Vega
- Lorenza Izzo
Well-known male actors
[edit]- Eugenio Retes
- Enrique Riveros
- Roberto Parada
- Antonio Prieto
- Humberto Duvauchelle
- Luis Alarcon
- Hector Duvauchelle
- Jaime Vadell
- Hector Noguera
- Nelson Villagra
- Julio Jung
- Sergio Hernandez
- Francisco Reyes
- Alejandro Trejo
- Alfredo Castro
- Alejandro Goic
- Luis Gnecco
- Alvaro Rudolphy
- Daniel Munoz
- Santiago Cabrera
- Pedro Pascal
- Cristian de la Fuente
- Marko Zaror
- Pablo Schwarz
- Nestor Cantillana
- Benjamin Vicuna
Major films
[edit]Fiction films
[edit]Before 1960
[edit]- El husar de la muerte (1925)
- Dama de la muerte (1946)
- Si mis campos hablaran (1947)
- Rio abajo (1950)
- Uno que ha sido marino (1951)
- El gran circo Chamorro (1955)
1960s
[edit]- El cuerpo y la sangre (1962)
- Regreso al silencio (1967)
- Largo viaje (1967)
- Ayudeme usted compadre (1968)
- Tres tristes tigres (1968) shared Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival
- Valparaiso mi amor (1969)
- Caliche sangriento (1969)
- El chacal de Nahueltoro (1969)
1970s
[edit]- Los testigos (1971)
- Palomita blanca (1973)
- La tierra prometida (1973)
- A la sombra del sol (1974)
- Dialogos de exiliados (1975)
- Julio comienza en julio (1979)
- El zapato chino (1979)
1980s
[edit]- Los deseos concebidos (1982)
- Ardiente paciencia (1983)
- Sussi (1988)
- Imagen latente (1988)
1990s
[edit]- Caluga o menta (1990)
- La luna en el espejo (1990) won Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival
- La frontera (1991) won Silver Bear for outstanding single achievement at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival
- Johnny cien pesos (1993)
- Amnesia (1994)
- Los naufragos (1994)
- Historias de futbol (1997)
- Gringuito (1998)
- El Chacotero Sentimental (1999)
2000s
[edit]- Angel negro (2000)
- Bastardos en el paraiso (2000)
- Tierra del Fuego (2000)
- La fiebre del loco (2001)
- Negocio redondo (2001)
- Taxi para tres (2001) won Golden Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival
- Te amo (Made in Chile) (2001)
- Ogu y Mampato en Rapa Nui (2002)
- Sangre eterna (2002)
- Sexo con amor (2002)
- B-Happy (2003)
- Coronacion (2003)
- Los debutantes (2003)
- Sabado, una pelicula en tiempo real (2003)
- Sub Terra (2003)
- Cachimba (2004)
- Machuca (2004)
- Mala leche (2004)
- Promedio rojo (2004)
- Dias de campo (2005)
- Padre nuestro (2005)
- En la cama (2005)
- Mi mejor enemigo (2005)
- Parentesis (2005)
- Play (2005)
- Se arrienda (2005)
- El rey de los huevones (2006)
- Kiltro (2006)
- La sagrada familia (2006)
- El pejesapo (2007)
- Radio Corazon (2007)
- Tony Manero (2008)
- El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia (2008)
- 31 minutos, la pelicula (2008)
- La buena vida (2008)
- La nana (2009)
- Dawson Isla 10 (2009)
- Huacho (2009)
2010s
[edit]- La vida de los peces (2010)
- Gatos viejos (2010)
- Fuck My Life (2010), Que pena tu boda (2011) and Que pena tu familia (2013)
- Post Mortem (2010)
- Violeta se fue a los cielos (2011)
- Bonsai (2011)
- The Year of the Tiger (2011)
- Joven y alocada (2012)
- No (2012) nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- La noche de enfrente (2012)
- De jueves a domingo (2012)
- Carne de perro (2012)
- Crystal Fairy (2012)
- Stefan v/s Kramer (2012) and Ciudadano Kramer (2013)
- Las cosas como son (2012)
- Magic Magic (2013)
- Gloria (2013) won Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival
- La danza de la realidad (2013)
- Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013)
- El futuro (2013)
- El verano de los peces voladores (2013)
- Cirqo (2013)
- Las analfabetas (2013)
- Las ninas Quispe (2013)
- Aurora (2014)
- Matar a un hombre (2014)
- Allende en su laberinto (2014)
- Neruda (2014)
- No soy Lorena (2014)
- The Guest (La Visita) (2014)
- Historia de un oso (2014) won Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
- El bosque de Karadima (2015)
- En la gama de los grises (2015)
- El Club (2015)
- Poesia sin fin (2016)
- El Cristo ciego (2016)
- Rara (2016) won Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival
- Mala junta (2016)
- Sin filtro (2016)
- Neruda (2016)
- Nunca vas a estar solo (2016)
- Much Ado About Nothing (2016)
- Una mujer fantastica (2017) won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Johnny 100 pesos, capitulo dos (2017)
- Cabros de mierda (2017)
- Ninas arana (2017)
- Y de pronto el amanecer (2017)
- Los perros (2017)
- No estoy loca (2018)
- Tarde para morir joven (2018) won Leopard for Best Direction at the Locarno Festival
- La salamandra (2018)
- Mi amigo Alexis (2019)
- El principe (2019)
- Arana (2019)
- Ema (2019)
- Perro bomba (2019)
- Some Beasts (2019)
- Ella es Cristina (2019)
- Blanco en blanco (2019)
2020s
[edit]- Jailbreak Pact (2020)
- My Tender Matador (2020)
- Nahuel and the Magic Book (2020)
- Nobody Knows I'm Here (2020)
- Piola (2020)
- La Veronica (2021)
- La mirada incendiada (2021)
- Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena (2021)
- Immersion (2021)
- Blanquita (2022)
- The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (2022)
- The Punishment (2022)
- Analogues (2023)
- The Movie Teller (2023)
- History and Geography (2023)
- The Settlers (2023)
- El Conde (2023)
- El vacio (2023)
- Prison in the Andes (2023)
- In Her Place (2024)
- El Fantasma (2024)
- A Yard of Jackals (2024)
- Isla Negra (2024)
- Designation of Origin (2024)
- ?Cuando te vas? (2025)
- The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025)
- The Dog Thief (2025)
- The Wave (2025)
- You Broke my Heart (2025)
- La fuente (2025)
Documentaries
[edit]- Mimbre (1957)
- Dia de organillos (1959)
- Morir un poco (1966)
- La batalla de Chile (1979)
- Acta General de Chile (1986)
- Cien ninos esperando un tren (1988)
- La flaca Alejandra (1994)
- Aqui se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde naci) (2000)
- Un hombre aparte (2001)
- Estadio Nacional (2001)
- Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena (2002)
- La cueca sola (2003)
- Salvador Allende (2004)
- Calle Santa Fe (2007)
- El diario de Agustin (2008)
- Nostalgia de la luz (2010)
- El salvavidas (2011)
- La once (2014)
- El boton de nacar (2015) won Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin International Film Festival
- Lemebel (2019)
- The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)
- The Mole Agent (2020)
- My Imaginary Country (2022)
- The Eternal Memory (2023)
- Oasis (2024)
- La ruta infinita (2025)
Cinema Festivals in Chile
[edit]Among the best known Chilean cinema festivals are:
- Festival Internacional de Animacion Chilemonos - CHILEMONOS (Chilemonos International Animation Film Festival)[43]
A relatively new festival with only five editions by 2014, it brings together most Chilean animation producers as well as many fans.
- Festival Internacional de Documentales de Antofagasta - ANTOFADOCS (Antofagasta International Documentary Festival)[44]
A documentary film festival held in the Atacama Desert in the northern Chilean city of Antofagasta. ATOFADOCS offers free workshops that are open to the community.
- Festival Internacional de Cine de la Antartica sobre Medio Ambiente y Sustentabilidad - FICAMS (Antarctica International Film Festival on Environment and Sustainability).[45]
FICAMS is a green film festival which invites filmmakers of all nationalities to enter audiovisual works that address global warming, renewable energy, the environment and sustainability issues. This festival began in 2011, and is held in Punta Arenas and Puerto Williams, two of the southernmost cities in Chile and the world.
- Festival de Cine B - CINE B (B Cinema Festival)[46]
Cine B festival is accepts all kinds of independent works, including feature films, shorts, music videos and other non-traditional formats. In general, in features films rejected by big movie theatres and distributors.[47] The festival began in 2008 and is organized by the Chilean Film School and other organizations that have joined over the years.[48]
- Festival de Cine de Mujeres - FEMCINE (Women's Film Festival)[49]
FEMCINE is the response to the lack of women in film production, as stated on the festival's website by its executive director Antonella Estevez: "less than 20% of the TV or cinema productions we see are directed by a woman".[50]
- Festival Internacional de Cine Valdivia FICV - (Valdivia International Film Festival)[51]
Valdivia International Film Festival is an international film exhibition that includes other cultural events like free concerts and book releases. The festival begun in 1993 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Universidad Austral de Chile's Cine Club.
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Vina del Mar - FICVINA (Vina del Mar International Film Festival)[52]
Although the Vina del Mar International Film Festival started in 1967, its history goes back to 1963, with the first Amateur Film Festival promoted by doctor and filmmaker Aldo Francia. In its fourth edition in 1966, the festival dropped the "amateur" from the title and became the first Chilean international film festival. Eventually the festival evolved to become what we know today.[53]
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Lebu- FICIL BIOBIO (Lebu International Film Festival)[54]
Originally known as the Festival de Cine Latinoamericano Caverna Benavides de Lebu, the festival was created to incentivize film culture in Lebu, Arauco Province which by then had few cinemas and a population that knew very little about cinema. Initially, it focused on Latin American cinema before growing into the international festival that it is today.
- Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago - FIDOCS (Santiago International Documentary Film Festival)[55]
Started in 1997, FIDOCS has become the main space for the exchange, circulation and competition of the documentary genre in Chile.
- Festival del Cine Social y Antisocial de La Pintana - FECISO (La Pintana Social and Antisocial Film Festival)[56]
In 2007, La Pintana Social and Antisocial Film Festival was created with the purpose of promoting and disseminating works that address social issues. The festival brought together a wide range of social organizations and promoted the debate of social issues. La Pintana is one of the most deprived communes of Chile.[57]
- Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine - SANFIC (Santiago International Film Festival)[58]
As its name suggests, the festival takes place in Santiago and, along with the festival held in Valdivia, has become one of the most important Chilean film festivals.
- Festival de Cine Documental de Chiloe - FEDOCHI (Chiloe Documentary Film Festival)[59]
This festival has taken place in Chiloe in southern Chile every year since 2006, and is focused on audiovisual works about heritage, identity and the rescuing of memory.[60]
See also
[edit]- Cinema of the world
- List of Chilean films
- Latin American cinema
- List of Chilean actors
- List of Chilean telenovelas
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c "Anuario de Cultura y Tiempo Libre - Informe Anual 2013" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ^ "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "'A Fantastic Woman' Scores Chile's First Foreign Language Oscar Win". 5 March 2018.
- ^ History of Cinema in Chile (EN) filmbirth.com (c) Copyright 2001-2009 Filmbirth.com All Rights Reserved, retrieved on 18 November
- ^ Una cueca en Cavancha Cinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno / Santiago, Chile , retrieved on 18 November
- ^ El desfile en honor del Brasil Cinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno / Santiago, Chile, retrieved on 18 November
- ^ La llegada de un tren de pasajeros a la estacion de Iquique Cinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno / Santiago, Chile, retrieved on 18 November
- ^ Bomba Tarapaca No7 Cinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno / Santiago, Chile, retrieved on 18 November
- ^ Grupo de gananciosos en la partida de football Cinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno / Santiago, Chile /, retrieved on 18 November
- ^ Re-vision del Cine Chileno, Alicia Vega, p.204. Link to e-book on MemoriaChilena.cl Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ^ Ejercicio general del Cuerpo de Bomberos (1902) Cinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno / Santiago, Chile /retrieved on 18 November
- ^ Ejercicio General del Cuerpo de Bomberos Cine Chile: Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ^ "Un paseo por playa ancha" online Archived 5 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine CINETECA NACIONAL DEL CENTRO CULTURAL LA MONEDA, retrieved 18 November 2014
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Historia del Cine Chileno Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, September 2005, Emol.cl (website of El Mercurio newspaper). Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ^ Obsesionado con el husar Carolina Robino, BBC Mundo, 24 October 2005. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ^ "Cineteca Universidad de Chile : Pelicula : 15.000 dibujos". Cinetecavirtual.uchile.cl. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ Antonella Estevez y las transformaciones del Cine Chileno en ARTV Radio Universidad de Chile website, 11 May 2010. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
- ^ a b Nuevo Cine Chileno Memoriachilena.cl. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ FICHA TECNICA, premios Unidad Tecnica Programa Ibermedia, 2013, retrieved 18 December 2014
- ^ Taxi Para Tres is San Sebastian surprise winner 30 September 2001 screendaily.com By Jennifer Green
- ^ "23rd Vancouver International Film Festival Breaks Records" (PDF) (Press release). Vancouver International Film Festival. 13 October 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
- ^ Political Film Society Award winners per year http://www.polfilms.com/ copyright 2014 Political Film Society. All Rights Reserved, retrieved 24 November 2014
- ^ "Latest Academy News". 10 September 2014.
- ^ "Tony Manero fue seleccionada para postular por Chile a los Oscar". ADN Radio Chile. 26 September 2008. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2008.
- ^ The Maid official Archived 20 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine SevenTwentyOne Productions, The Maid Film official website, retrieved 18 December 2014
- ^ The Maid film info (es) digitaliafilmlibrary2014 Digitalia, retrieved 18 December 2014
- ^ ""La vida de los peces" postulara a ternas de Mejor Pelicula Extranjera en los Oscar". lanacion.cl. Archived from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
- ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Continue to Oscar Race". oscars.org. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Nostalgia for the Light". Icarus Films. icarusfilms.com. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ "Interview with Bonsai director Cristian Jimenez". soundsandcolours. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Official Selection". Cannes. Archived from the original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ "Cannes film festival 2011: The full lineup". guardian.co.uk. London. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ Sundance Institute - Voleta went to heaven Archived 20 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Archives / 2012 Sundance Film Festival, retrieved 18 December 2014
- ^ Violeta went to heaven, Hollywood reporter hollywoodreporter.com by Agustin Mango 9 June 2012, retrieved 18 December 2014
- ^ "Joven y alocada" marcan historico triunfo del cine chileno en Sundance Emol.cl (website of El Mercurio newspaper), 29 January 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ^ "Infancia Clandestina" y "Joven y alocada" fueron galardonadas en Festival de Huelva Radio Cooperativa website, 24 November 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2013
- ^ Joven y alocada gana premio en San Sebastian Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine DPA, La Tercera, 28 September 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
- ^ Sundance 2013 Award Announced hollywoodreporter.com by THR Staff 26 January 2013, retrieved 20 December 2014
- ^ Cinema Chile 2012-2013 Award Movies Cinema Chile 2014 - Retrieved 20 December 2014
- ^ "Chilea's Lelio wins Films in Progress in San Sebastian". screendaily. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- ^ Chilemonos Archived 20 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine (c) 2014 Festival internacional de animacion CHILEMONOS, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ ATOFADOCS (c) 2014 Antofadocs, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ FICAMS - Antarctica International Film Festival of Environment and Sustainability FICAMS 2014, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ CINE B Film Festival Archived 28 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine (c) Cine//B 2014. Ningun derecho reservado (No right reserved), retrieved 21 November 2014
- ^ Further details on CINE B at withoutabox (c) Copyright 2000 - 2014 Withoutabox, a DBA of IMDb.com inc.retrieved 21 November 2014
- ^ CINE B - Escuela de Cine (ES) Escuela de Cine - 2014, retrieved 21 November 2014
- ^ FEMCINE (ES) femcine.cl 2014, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ ["Menos del 20% de la produccion audiovisual que vemos en cine o television esta dirigida por mujeres" Antonella Estevez Directora Ejecutiva, FEMCINE] FEMCINE - 2014, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ Valdivia International Film Festival ficvaldivia.cl 2014, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ Vina del Mar International Film Festival cinevina.cl - FICVINA 2013, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ FICVINA History (ES) Archived 19 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine cinevina.cl - FICVINA 2013, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ FICIL BIOBIO FICIL BIOBIO 2014
- ^ Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (c) 2014 FIDOCS - Festival Internacional Documentales Santiago Chile retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ La Pintana Social Cine Festival FECISO, retrieved 20 November 2014
- ^ "Poverty in the Santiago Metropolitan Region" (PDF). Ministry of Planning of Chile (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2007.
- ^ Santiago International Film Festival SANFIC 2014, retrieved 20 November 2014
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References
[edit]- (in English) Michael Chanan (under the direction of), Chilean Cinema, Londres, British Film Institute, 1976, 102 p. ISBN 0-85170-058-6
- (in English) James Cosneros, "The Figure of Memory in Chilean Cinema: Patricio Guzman and Raul Ruiz", Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2006, p. 59-75.
- (in Spanish) Eliana Jara Donoso, Cine mudo chileno, Los Heroes/Fondo de Desarrollo de la Cultura y las Artes, Ministerio de Educacion, Ceneca, Tevecorp., 1994, ISBN 956-272-024-1
- (in Spanish) Julio Lopez Navarro, Peliculas chilenas, Editorial La Noria, 1994.
- (in Spanish) Jacqueline Mouesca, Plano secuencia de la memoria de Chile: venticincoanos de cine chileno (1960-1985), Madrid, Ediciones del litoral, 1988, 207 p ISBN 84-85594-21-5
- (in French) Nicolas Azalbert, "Nouveaux espoirs chiliens", Cahiers du cinema, no 604, September 2005, p. 60; 62.
- (in French) Collectif, Le Cinema latino-americain, Ed. Iris, 1991, 162 p.
- (in French) Hans Ehrmann, "Le Cinema de l'Unite Populaire - Bilan d'une experience", Ecran no. 22, p. 14.
- (in French) Jean-Paul Fargier, "Eternel Chili", Cahiers du cinema, no. 379, January 1986, p. XII-XIII.
- (in French) Carlos Forastero, "Chili: la traversee du desert", Ecran no. 72 p. 13.
- (in French) Guy Hennebelle, Alfonso Gumucio-Dagmon, et al., Les Cinemas de l'Amerique latine, Ed. Lherminier, 1981, 544 p.
- (in French) Pierre Kast, "Situation du cinema chilien", Cinema no. 164, March 1972, p. 72.
- (in French) Francoise Le Pennec, "Cinema du Chili, en exil ou sur place", Cinema no. 290, p. 54.
- (in French) Eric Le Roy, review of book by Eliana Jara Donoso, Cine mudo chileno, revue 1895 no. 19, p. 96.
- (in French) Paulo Antonio Paranagua, Le Cinema en Amerique latine: le miroir eclate, Ed. L'Harmattan, 2000, 288 p.
- (in French) Paulo Antonio Paranagua, "Chili" (an association of friends of Chilean cinema), Positif no. 240, March 1981, p. 61.
- (in French) Paulo Antonio Paranagua, review of book by Alicia Vega, Re-vision del cine chileno, Positif ndeg 250, January 1982, p. 91.
- (in French) Paulo Antonio Paranagua, "Chili, impressions", Positif no. 372, February 1992, p. 18.
- (in French) Zuzana Mirjam Pick, "Le Cinema chilien sous le signe de l'union populaire 1970-1973", Positif no. 155, January 1974, p. 35.
- (in French) Francis Saint-Dizier, Cinemas d'Amerique latine ndeg 6: les historiens du cinema en Amerique latine, Toulouse, Presses universitaires du Mirail, 1998, 185 p.
- (in French) Francis Saint-Dizier, Cinemas d'Amerique latine ndeg 7: cinemas latino-americains des annees 90, Toulouse, Presses universitaires du Mirail, 1999, 182 p. ISBN 2-85816-447-9
- (in French) Francis Saint-Dizier, Esther Saint-Dizier, Cinemas d'Amerique latine ndeg 8: cinema et musique, Toulouse, Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2000, 182 p. ISBN 2-85816-506-8
- (in French) "Chili: les annees du 'cinema noir'", Cinema no. 461, November 1981, p. 5.
External links
[edit]General
[edit]- (in Spanish) CineChile
- (in Spanish) OndaMedia Cine Chileno Online
- Focus On Chilean Cinema Sounds and Colours
- (in Spanish) El cine chileno en sus libros. Breve panorama historico (apercu historique par David Vasquez, de l'Universite Diego Portales de Santiago)
- (in Spanish) Cinemateca virtual de Chile (site du Conseil national de la culture et des arts)
- (in French) << Le cinema chilien : un pari sur le hasard >> (article d'Alicia Vega, 13eme Festival des 3 continents, novembre 1991)
Magazines
[edit]- Mabuse
- Voraz (magazine of the school of cinema of Chile)
- La Fuga
- Fuera de Campo
- Analizame
- Racontto
- Civil Cinema
- Bifurcaciones (magazine of urban cultural studies)
Production companies
[edit]- Maria Films (film and television)
- Roos Film (film and television)
- Sobras Archived 10 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine (film and online magazine)
- Risas & Risas (film and television)
- DCM (film)
Analyses
[edit]- (in Spanish) Interview d'Alicia Scherson, director of Play (Ricardo Greene, "Conversacion con Alicia Scherson: La ciudad y las alcachofas", Bifurcaciones no. 4, Spring 2005, ISSN 0718-1132)