Projects

Runtime: 80'

Expected release: March, 2024

Production stage: Editing, Post-production

Budget: €280 000 (68% in place)

1st feature: Yes

Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents, Co-Producers, Gap Financing, Strategic Guidance

Synopsis:

Traversing the majestic Andean Highlands, Atacama Desert, and Coastal Cliffs, Unwelcomed unveils the harsh reality of the Venezuelan migration crisis in Latin America, alongside the cultural clash and radicalization in northern Chile. Through a choral narrative, contrasting perspectives, and an evocative exploration, the film sheds light on universal challenges posed by this social phenomenon.

Director’s profile:

Amilcar Infante, graduated from Bande À Part School in Barcelona, Director and Founder of Amilcar Films, has written and directed several music videos, short films and video content for different organizations. He is currently preparing his debut feature film ‘Unwelcomed’, while also developing the documentary ‘Nipon Takes’, the documentary series ‘Photos; A Dialogue Between Past and Present’, and co-producing ‘Julio Escamez, Beginning and End’. His directorial credits include ‘Soterrament’ (2017, short documentary), ‘Este Lugar’ (2016, short fiction), ‘Taxista Libre’ (2015, short fiction).

Producer’s profile:

Sebastián González M., graduated in Business and Economics with a Diploma in Executive Production for Film and TV, Sebastián has worked in various production roles for Tercermundo, Glaciar Films, and other national companies, developing different formats such as TV series, webseries, short films and videoclips. He is currently the executive director of Amilcar Films, working in the post production of ‘Unwelcomed’ his first feature documentary, and the distribution of two short films directed and produced by him in 2023. His credits include ‘Consagración’ (2023, short fiction), ‘No lo mires’ (2023, short fiction), ‘Nuevo Mundo; Pintura callejera en America Latina’ (2020, TV series, asst. producer).

Runtime: 70'

Expected release: November, 2024

Production stage: Post-production

Budget: $160 159 (100% in place)

1st feature: No

Looking for: Festivals and Sales agents / Distributors

Synopsis:

Two filmmakers propose to Cristián Sánchez (70), a cult Chilean filmmaker, to make a film. The condition is that he resurrect the characters of his classic works, but in the form of zombies. He fights to protect his artistic principles, but the process forces him to rediscover himself, transformed into an actor and questioned by his characters, who also begin to form part of his ordinary life.

Director’s profile:

Fernando L. has made fiction and documentary films. His debut film “Y las vacas vuelan”(2003), is considered one of the films that initiated the so-called Very New Chilean Cinema. In documentaries he directed with Gonzalo Vergara “Este año no hay cosecha”(2000), a film that became a cult after the social unrest, and with Sebastián Lelio, he co-directed the documentary series “Mi Mundo Privado”, semi-finalist of the EMI awards. With the feature films “Las Cosas como Son”(2012) and “Sin Norte”(2015), he won many awards at international film festivals, including Best Film at the Forum of Independents section of the Karlovy Vary Festival and Best Latin American Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival.

Co-Director’s profile:

Sebastián Pereira’s first project “Los Iluminados” was premiered in the official selection of FICValdivia (2015) and won Best National Feature Film at the Cine//B_8 Festival (2016). In 2021 he co-founded his production company Lawarrior Films with which he made his first film as producer, “Voy y Vuelvo”, directed by Cristián Sánchez and premiered at the “Chilean Gala” at FICValdivia(2023) and selected at BAFICI(2024). He’s currently developing his next films where he explores between documentary and fiction genre; “Nada es como antes” (Chile, 2024) selected for WIP FECICH 2023 and VdR Market 2023, “La Gran Ilusión”, (Chile-Cuba 2024) Doc:Lab Award -FIDBA 2023 and selected for WIP MAFIZ 2024, and “El Realismo Después de la Revolución” (Chile – France 2025).

Producer’s profile:

Francisco Hervé is a Chilean producer, screenwriter, and director. He has made documentary films such as “The Other One” (2020), “Beaverland” (2014), and “The Lost City” (2016), awarded at the most important festivals in the world. In fiction, he seeks to smuggle a reflection on reality into films of various genres, such as the suspense of “Immersion” (2021), the comedy of “Nakamura”, the western of “La Hija del Pacífico”, or the adventure of “Vaterland” (in development)

Runtime: 75'

Expected release: November, 2024

Production stage: Post-production

Budget: €159 848 (66% in place)

1st feature: Yes

Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents, Distributors, Buyers, Co-Producers, Gap Financing, Impact and Communications Campaign Consulting.

Synopsis:

In 1895, during the genocide of the Selk’nam people in the Chilean Patagonia, 165 indigenous were captured and brutally deported from their territory. Their children were taken by European settlers and forced to work as servants. A century later, a young Selk’nam descendant, driven by a painful family history, makes the journey back to her ancestral territory to prove that they are not extinct.

Director’s profile:

Constanza Vásquez Palau is a journalist. She has worked as a researcher for documentary series on indigenous topics, seeking to give voice to the protagonists and tell their stories in an intimate and respectful way. Previously, she developed her career in television, participating in documentary series, news and entertainment shows. “Returning Where I Have Never Been” is her debut as a documentary filmmaker.

Co-Director’s profile:

Andrés Morales Zambra is a filmmaker based in Santiago de Chile. He is a director, producer and screenwriter of short fiction and documentary films with a focus on heritage and history. Andrés also holds a degree in Architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2013) and a Master in History and Cultural Heritage Management from the Universidad de Los Andes (2022).

Producer’s profile:

Alejandra Rosas is a journalist and holds a Master’s Degree in Documentary Film from the University of Chile. She has a diploma in film distribution from EICTV, Cuba. Founder of Tonina Sur Film, she produces documentaries where her greatest strength is to recognize extraordinary stories of ordinary people. She directs DOCUMENTA SUR Lab, a training and consulting space for Chilean independent documentary companies, with international experts.

Magdalena Ponce is a journalist and Public Relations specialist, with a diploma in Distribution Channels and Marketing from Buenos Aires, Argentina. As the founder of Tonina Sur Films, she is involved in documentary and television projects. Since 2022, she produces DOCUMENTA SUR Lab and also produces the series “Ellas en la Palabra” featuring women poets on Canal 13.

Runtime: 70'

Expected release: February, 2025

Production stage: Post-production

Budget: €100 063 (79% in place)

1st feature: Yes

Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents / distributors

Synopsis:

Aliyah in Hebrew means to go up and immigrate to Israel; Yeridah, the opposite, to descend and emigrate. From family archives the director tries to understand the motivations of his paternal family to emigrate to Israel in the 1970s, as well as the disappointments that brought them back to Chile, a decade later. That rise and fall is contrasted with his own experience in Chile, Israel and Palestine.

Director’s profile:

Rafael Guendelman Hales is a chilean artist graduated in Fine Arts from Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC) and with a Master degree in Situated Practice at University College London (UCL). He has a diploma in Film Theory (PUC) and Contemporary Arab World at Universidad de Chile. He has participated in different exhibitions, such as: “Otrxs Fronterxs”, Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Chile); “Sin tierra”, in Chile at Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende and in Palestinian Territories, at Dar Al Kalima College and Khalil Sakakini CC; “Visiones Territoriales”, Centro Cultural La Moneda (Chile); “Bienal de la imagen y movimiento”, Buenos Aires; “Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid” at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He is in postproduction of his first feature documentary “Aliyá, Yeridá”, winner of the Chilean Film Fund.

Producer’s profile:

Joaquín Echeverría was born in 1989 in Santiago de Chile. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering in Construction Management from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MA in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London. He is currently based in London, UK. He has produced five short films and five feature films. It has premiered at Sundance (“Much ado about nothing”), Cannes (“Los perros”), Toronto (“And the whole sky fits in the dead cow’s eye”), Venice (“The Blind Christ” and “Austral Fever”), FIDBA (“The Ram’s nap”), Valdivia (“Ivy”) and BAFICI (“A dark light”). He is currently in postproduction with the feature documentary “Aliyá, Yeridá” from director Rafael Guendelman and the feature “You, the artist” by Flavia Contreras. He is in distribution of the short film “We will burn” by Simón Vargas. He is developing animation, documentary and fiction projects.