Pablo Larrain Constanza Arena Marie De-La-Fuente Sebastian Lelio Dominga Sotomayor Claudia Huaiquimilla Salvador Allende USA Chile Berlin city Venice city Tallinn film art economy and Pablo Larrain Constanza Arena Marie De-La-Fuente Sebastian Lelio Dominga Sotomayor Claudia Huaiquimilla Salvador Allende USA Chile Berlin city Venice city Tallinn

Winds of Change in Chile’s Film and TV Landscape

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Anna Marie de la Fuente It’s a new dawn for Chile’s audiovisual industry. When Gabriel Boric, Chile’s youngest (at 35) and most left-leaning president since Salvador Allende, was elected in December, his pledge to more than double the state’s contribution to the arts was greeted with great fanfare.After all, Chile’s prodigious film output this past decade has been remarkable despite the scant public support it has received.“If everything we have achieved in the last 10 years was done with so little money, imagine what we can achieve with an increase in audiovisual funding!” says Constanza Arena, executive director of Chile’s film promotion org, CinemaChile.In recent years, Chile has triumphed at the Oscars, starting when Pablo Larraín’s “No” was nominated for international feature in 2012, and culminating in an Oscar win for Sebastian Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” in 2017.

Last Academy Awards season, Maite Alberdi’s documentary “The Mole Agent” was shortlisted for international feature and nominated for documentary.

Larraín, Dominga Sotomayor, Matías Rojas and Claudia Huaiquimilla premiered films in Venice, Cannes, Tallinn and Locarno, respectively, with Larraín’s “Spencer” getting notable Oscar buzz this season.

Chile’s participation at the Berlinale is led by doc “The Veteran,” by Jeronimo Rodriguez, selected for Forum. It investigates the urban legend of an American priest living in a coastal town of Chile and rumored to have been involved in the bombing of Hiroshima.

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