In collaboration with Hot Docs 2022, Chiledoc announced that the Toronto-based festival will showcase seven Chilean documentaries as part of its Made In Chile strand.
Screening from April 29, the selections highlight the burgeoning global impact of Chile’s spirited documentary film initiative, encompassing diverse and bold perspectives from new voices nationwide.
As North America’s largest documentary film festival, conference and market, Hot Docs strives to forge essential relationships that lead to production opportunities for documentary filmmakers with a keen eye on the global market.
“We are excited to celebrate and spotlight this new movement of documentary filmmakers from Chile,” shares Shane Smith, director of programming for Hot Docs. “Their bold and daring approach to reexamining their country’s multifaceted history while crafting powerful and distinctively Chilean stories is making the documentary industry, and the world, take notice.”
Made in Chile bows, indeed, just days after “My Imaginary Country,” from Patricio Guzmán,...
Screening from April 29, the selections highlight the burgeoning global impact of Chile’s spirited documentary film initiative, encompassing diverse and bold perspectives from new voices nationwide.
As North America’s largest documentary film festival, conference and market, Hot Docs strives to forge essential relationships that lead to production opportunities for documentary filmmakers with a keen eye on the global market.
“We are excited to celebrate and spotlight this new movement of documentary filmmakers from Chile,” shares Shane Smith, director of programming for Hot Docs. “Their bold and daring approach to reexamining their country’s multifaceted history while crafting powerful and distinctively Chilean stories is making the documentary industry, and the world, take notice.”
Made in Chile bows, indeed, just days after “My Imaginary Country,” from Patricio Guzmán,...
- 4/29/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Nighttime is the Right Time: two unlikely companions navigate a liminal Istanbul in Evirgen’s one-night odyssey
Sometime in the early naughts, a certain type of cinema came to a high tide – a highly stylized, vibrant and kinetic brand of filmmaking that was notably associated with Wong Kar-Wai. Drawing on similar premises and the same moody aesthetic of lush colours and grungy settings, filmmaker Umut Evirgen tries his hand at a story about the romantic weariness of modern life. Set over the course of just one night, Meeting Point takes us on a motorcycle ride through a bustling yet seemingly apathetic Istanbul, when two outcasts accidentally bond over their feelings of alienation as they wait outside the same venue.…...
Sometime in the early naughts, a certain type of cinema came to a high tide – a highly stylized, vibrant and kinetic brand of filmmaking that was notably associated with Wong Kar-Wai. Drawing on similar premises and the same moody aesthetic of lush colours and grungy settings, filmmaker Umut Evirgen tries his hand at a story about the romantic weariness of modern life. Set over the course of just one night, Meeting Point takes us on a motorcycle ride through a bustling yet seemingly apathetic Istanbul, when two outcasts accidentally bond over their feelings of alienation as they wait outside the same venue.…...
- 10/18/2021
- by Dora Leu
- IONCINEMA.com
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