Chile comes to Sheffield in one of its best moments for Chilean documentaries, that is why we are proud to announce the Chilean Spotlight that will be held at Sheffield DocFest platform with the highlights of Chilean documentary cinema in recent years. We invite you to enjoy these films and learn about the project ‘Here the silence is heard’, by Grieta Cine, selected in the MeetMarket, directed and produced by great emerging talents. We also arrive with a delegation of six prominent producers and filmmakers in search of new alliances and international financing. The presence of our delegation is possible thanks to the financing of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.
Maria Jose | Producer, Director
Journalist, Producer and VR Director interested in different dimensions of humanity and nature to reinterpretate it by art and storytelling techniques.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Vivan las antipodas, Victor Kossakovsky
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? Metropolitana de Santiago
Flor Rubina | Producer
Experienced Producer and founder of CCDoc, NGO that works in the promotion and development of documentary films.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? La batalla de Chile
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? Political Thriller
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? Nostalgia from the Light
Gabriela Pena | Director and Producer
Chilean-Spanish filmmaker (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). Co-founder at Grieta Cine, director of her documentary feature debut ‘Zoila’ (2021) and ‘Here, the silence is heard’ (development) – Funded by Open City Festival, UK.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Photographic Memory, Ross McElwee
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? Autobiographical films
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? The Other Day, Ignacio Agüero
Michel Toledo | Director and Producer
Michel Toledo is a chilean director and producer. He is the founder and creative director of Totem Productions, a company dedicated to create audiovisual projects for film, television and digital media.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Close Up
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? The Battle of Chile
Paola Castillo | Director / Producer
Director and Producer of award-winning documentaries such as "Beyond my grandfather Allende, Best Documentary at Cannes Film Festival 2015; "Haydee and the flying fish" and "Cielo". Chief Executive of Chiledoc.
Samuel Restucci | Animator
Samuel Restucci, make the short film "Reanimation", the music video "Tiempo de Solea". "The happy versión of eden" is his second animated short-film. Now is on “Neutron Star” a virtual reality project.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Balseros
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? La batalla de Chile
Picho García | Executive Producer, Director
Chilean filmmaker. Produces short films and in 2020 co-founded Grieta Cine (‘Zoila’). 2018 at Locarno Valdivia Industry Academy, continues training his career (IFFR PRO, EFM Visitors Program), and developing new projects
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? Latin American premieres
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? Los Reyes - Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff
Florencia Dupont | Producer
Founding partner of Santiago Independiente, producer and distribution company based in Chile. Member of CEIS 8 film collective.Producer of the film in progress "Under the Sky Shelter" and the project "The Ghosts of Mary"
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Los Rubios de Albertina Carri, Robar a Rodin de Cristobal Valenzuela.
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? Homenaje a la obra de Phillip Henry Gosse – Dir. Pablo Martín Weber
The Chilean Delegation is coordinated by Chile Doc, financed and supported by CHILE
