Viva Chile Mierda will screen at Brighton’s CINECITY Film Festival on Wednesday November 26th at 6:00pm in the Sallis Benney Theatre in downtown Brighton.
Weds Nov 26 @6pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
58-67 Grand Parade
Brighton, East Sussex BN2 0JY
Download the complete programme here:
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Over the next week ¡Viva Chile mierda! will screen at various venues in Madrid and Barcelona as part of the El Ojo Cojo International Film Festival. I am particularly excited that the film will be playing in a cinema near my aunt Gaby and that she and my cousins will be able to watch the film on the big screen. If you find yourself in Spain this week, do go and check out my film at one of the venues below:
4/10/2014 @ 22:11
La Zagala de Lavapiés
Calle Amparo, 77, 28012 Madrid
+34 622 09 21 64
http://www.lazagaladelavapies.es
4/10/2014 @ 20:15
Sala Metaforas
Calle Papagayo, 8, 28025 Madrid
+34 617 62 29 09
http://www.salametaforas.com
4/10/2014 @ 20:30
Cafe Kino
Calle Olivar 17, 28012 Madrid
+34 91 173 6273
http://www.cafekino.es
8/10/2014 @ 22:38
Boliche Cinemes
Avinguda Diagonal, 508, 08006 Barcelona
+34 932 18 17 88
http://bolichecinemes.cat/
I am pleased to announce that my film has been selected for this year’s CINECITY Film Festival in Brighton, where I live. The festival takes place in the city’s historic Duke of York’s Picture House as well as other venues around downtown Brighton.
I have only just received the acceptance email and so I don’t have much more info as of yet. More to follow. Watch this space.
The festival schedule has now been finalised for Glasgow’s Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. There’s a slew of very interesting looking films programmed for the festival this year and I am please to be included in this line up. My film screens at 3:45pm on Friday the 10th. If you are in Glasgow that weekend do check out this festival and see if you can make to my screening. Hopefully I will see you there!
Full festival schedule here.
Viva Chile Mierda has also been highlighted on the festival’s website and given a “Programmer’s Pick”
It’s not everyday that one can say that their mother (in her late 70s) was able to find something on the internet that I, her tech-savvy son, had missed but apparently there was a review of my film on the chilean film website (blog?) Revius. It is very positive (which is why I am telling you about it) but it is always interesting to see how viewers respond to my film and this review reflects on the film’s positioning of ‘Papudo’ Valenzuela as a ‘hero’ then as ‘villain’ in an interesting way. The reviewer also mistakenly assumes that my father was in favour of the military coup because of his use of the term ‘military government’ rather than ‘dictatorship.’ To be honest I never knew (and I don’t believe my father knew either) that this way of referring to the Pinochet regime was so significant but now that I think about it, of course it is! Anyway, go ahead and read the full review via the link below. It’s in Spanish of course. Google translate at your own risk…
http://revius.net/2014/06/28/fidocs-2014-viva-chile-mierda-2013/
I have just learned that my film has been selected to this year’s El Ojo Cojo International Film Festival. Viva Chile Mierda will compete against 4 others for the €1,000 prize for Best Documentary Feature. But really what I am most happy about is that my Aunt Gaby and her children will be able to see the film screened in a cinema near them. The festival takes place in Barcelona and Madrid from October 3-12. Go if you can and spread the word.
The programme for Geneva’s 2014 Latin American film series, Cinémémoire has been finalised. Screening in Geneva’s Cinelux theatre, this year’s programme focuses on Chile and I am very excited to be included in this list of seminal films and to be programmed alongside films like La Spirale by Armand Mattelart, Chile Obstinate Memory by Patricio Guzman (one of my favorite films!) and Machuca by Andrés Wood. (Fun fact: my cousins Ian and Paul went to the school that was the subject of the film Machuca and they knew the boys that the film is about.) The films will screen at the Cinélux cinema on Boulevard de Sant-George. My film will screen on September 18th and October 5th. I will be there in person for the September 18th screening. I hope to see some of you there!
You can download the complete programme here:
I have just received the pleasing news that my film has been selected for Glasgow’s Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival!
The festival takes place October 9 – 12 so mark your calendar Glasgow people. I expect all of the Glaswegians I know to go to this (you know who you are) and to tell your friends. I think I’ll be going so I’ll know if your not there. Also, let’s drink. 🙂
More details soon…
All good things must come to an end. FIDOCS has officially concluded and although I did not walk away with one of the trophies, I did walk away with some great memories. I am immensely proud to have been selected for the National Competition and I congratulate all the worthy winners. The reception to my film at both screenings was everything I could have hoped for with many people coming up to me afterwards to thank me for making the film and discussing with me their own stories of that difficult time. There was not a dry eye in the house after each screening. What more could I ask for really? I wish to whole-heartedly thank the festival programmers for including me and for being such a warm hosts to me while I was in Santiago. I hope to be able to maintain these relationships in the years to come. I saw some truly inspiring films this last week and made what I hope to be some lasting friendships. I even got to spend time with one of my heroes, Patricio Guzman. #winning!
¡VIVA CHILE MIERDA! 