KIDSCREEN Summit brings together around 1,600 representatives of 85 companies from 42 countries annually. “This market offers a great opportunity to display high quality children’s programs produced in Chile to the world, all under one heading, CINEMACHILE. In recent years, Chilean TV shows and films have received recognition and various important awards. We’re coming to NY to show why.”, says Constanza Arena, CINEMACHILE’s Executive Director.

CINEMACHILE’s delegation is composed of Paula Gómez, from Mi Chica; Alvaro Ceppi and Gabriel Noe (Sólo por las niñas); Juan Manuel Egaña (Aplaplac); Juan Ignacio Correa (Fábula); Patricio Escala (Punkrobot); Alejandra Egaña (Ojitos Producciones); Bernardita Ojeda (Pajaro Animation); Andrea Cordones (Santos Cordones); and Constanza Arena (CINEMACHILE’s Executive Director).

Paula Gomez from Mi Chicha, winner of an EMMY International for "Con qué Sueñas"

Producer Paula Gómez, is the creator of the award-winning documentary series CON QUE SUEÑAS. Con que sueñas won the International Emmy Award in 2011 for Best Children’s Program, the only Latin American show to have garnered this award. The documentary series, which aired in 2010 on Chilean national television, explores the innocence, fantasies and imagination of Chilean kids, ages 7 to 13, from different parts of the country, showing also what their dreams are and how the place they live in shapes their self-awareness and how they perceive the world surrounding them.

Zumbástico Fantástico

Other participants are Alvaro Ceppi and Gabriel Noé, from the company Sólo por las niñas and creators of ZUMBASTICO FANTASTICO. This show was released in November 2011, on the Cartoon Network, becoming the first Chilean animation series to have aired on the network.

31 Minutos 2.0

The production company Aplaplac represented by Juan Manuel Egaña, will participate with 31 MINUTES 2.0 and CUCHO and MATUCHO among other projects. 31 Minutes is a successful series of Chilean television which has been broadcast in Latin America by Nickelodeon, including in Mexico in Once TV and Televisa Regional, in Argentina in Channel 7, in Uruguay in Channel 5, in Colombia in Señal Colombia and Spain in Veo.

Homeless

HOMELESS is called the ingenious comedy developed by Fábula and that will be represented in this market by Juan Ignacio Correa. The project is starring extravagant vagrants in a “modern” underdeveloped capital and its audiovisual proposal consists of the union of two animation techniques: 2D with 3D.

Animonitos

Andrea Cordones and her production company, Santos Cordones has a package of various interesting programs, including the comedy series ANIMONITOS. This funny show is about a hard-working and stern sea lion called Turo, whose life changes when four irresponsible, immature and untidy exotic animals arrive to live in his apartment. They get him in trouble but they also teach him the value of friendship. Other projects from Santos Cordones are RENATA and CENTRO DE ALUMNOS.

Muelines

MUELINES is one of the projects represented by Patricio Escala and the production company Punkrobot. The show promotes a healthier lifestyle wanting to reverse the bad habits in which children live today, all this through entertaining characters and stories for kids. His other projects are SOCCER GIRLS and FLIPOS.

Tikitiklip Precolombino

Alejandra Egaña from Ojitos Productions is involved with the project TIKITIKLIP PRECOLOMBINO, a children’s animated series of 13 episodes. In each one, an archaeologist father shows to his curious daughter, Inés, the history of behind the pieces of pre-Columbian art that he is working on. The goal is to invite children through an animated journey to explore the richness of the cultures of pre-Columbian America and their art. Another project from Ojitos Producciones is OOOMMM MMMOOOO, a series that motivates children to practice yoga.

Hostal Morrison

HOSTAL MORRISON is the series presented by Bernardita Ojeda from Pájaro Animation. The show narrates the amusing adventures of a group of monsters who, although they want desperately to accommodate human beings in their hostel, they end up scaring them. Thanks to an innovative visual proposal and an appropriate language for children, this animated program has the monster Celeste as the main character, that along with her friends who run the hostel. As part of her job, Celeste tries to understand humans, hiding their inhuman behavior and trying to be as normal as them to avoid scaring them.

ABOUT CINEMACHILE

CINEMACHILE is the international promotion agency for the Chilean TV and film industry in the world’s most renowned festivals and markets. Under the leadership of TV and Film Producers guild (APCT in Spanish), CINEMACHILE represents an industry that combines new talent, reliability and safe business. It is an organization that has progressively won recognition abroad with a strong content catalogue that includes films, short films, documentaries, animation and TV series.

In the TV sector, the project seeks to consolidate quality television content produced in Chile. It counts on the leadership and expertise of Executive Director Constanza Arena, the former Head of Adquisitions for TVN, who brings to the table an impressive portfolio in content acquisitions and programming spanning various formats that film, serials, documentaries, and children’s programming. More info on www.cinemachile.cl / www.apct.cl

CONSTANZA ARENA – EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Joining her educational background in media communication and art philosophy, Constanza Arena has established herself as an international programming analist and Chilean public television content acquisitions professional. In the academic realm, she has also taught photographic history and theory of photography, has participated in international symposiums, and has been published in scientific journals with focus on cinema and philosophy. Currently, Constanza is the Executive Director of Cinemachile, an organization promoting the Chilean media industry internationally

Request a meeting with any member of the CINEMACHILE delegation please contact Diana Vargas: 917-658-7735 / press@dianavargas.com or Constanza Arena, CINEMACHILE’s Executive Director: constanza@cinemachile.cl

“Tarde para morir joven”  fue premiada en el Sundance junto con “Violeta se fue a los cielos” y “Joven y Alocada” quienes obtuvieron en la sección Cine Internacional los premios a Mejor Película y Mejor Guión, respectivamente.

El premio obtenido en Sundance por Sotomayor consiste en 10 mil dólares los cuales le permitirán seguir desarrollando el guión de este segundo proyecto.
El punto de partida de esta trama es una experiencia real vivida por la directora cuando tenía cinco años y un incendio remeció a la comunidad ecológica de Peñalolén, lugar donde ella vivía.
“Tarde para morir joven” entrelazará tres historias de mujeres que viven un incendio.

La Directora

Dominga Sotomayor egresó de Dirección Audiovisual de la Universidad Católica en 2007. Gracias a  una beca otorgada por el Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual  hizo un Magíster en Dirección en España, con todo esto la realizadora tiene un numeroso currículum: quedó seleccionada en el Cinéfondation del Festival de Cannes para escribir su primer largometraje “De Jueves a Domingo”, en 2009 participó en el Talent Campus de Berlín, y sus cortometrajes han sido premiados en SANFIC y el Festival de Cine de Valdivia.

Hoy “De Jueves a Domingo” se encuentra compitiendo en el Festival de Cine de Rotterdam, en su categoría más importante la cual incluye solo primeras o segundas películas de directores de todo el mundo.

The shortfilm “TITANS”, by Chilean director Edison Cajas, makes up the official selection of films participating this year in the International Competition of this festival, which takes place between January 27 and February 4 at the french city of Clermont-Ferrand.

The rest of the CINEMACHILE commission is made up by Ricardo Nuñez and his short film “ALMA“; as well as René Castillo, director of HUMBOLDT“, an animated film. Both movies will have their own screenings during the film market parallel to the festival. Also joining the commission is Luciano Martínez Bogdanovic, president of the Chilean Association of Short Filmmakers (ACORCH), and the CINEMACHILE representative and filmmaker, Luis Román.

CHILEAN SHORTFILMS

Essential part of the Chilean participation in Clermont-Ferrand is the official screening of over 100 minutes of shortfilms, which will be exhibited during the market. Among the films conforming this screening is “HUMBOLDT” (Dir. René Castillo y Nicolás Cortes); “EXISTENCE” (Dir. Enzo Cortesi); “VAGUES NOIRES” (Dir. Geraldine Guardia); “WHITE PETALS” (Dir. Raúl Cruz Gabe); “GUIDING SIGHTS” (Dir. Katherina Harder); y “THE MAN THAT WAS AMONG THE PEOPLE” (Dir. Manuel Loyola Bahrs) .

Also conforming the screening is the awarded short film “THE SHOWER”, by María José San Martin, winner of the DAAD Short Film Prize at the Berlinale 2011; “AMBIENTE FAMILIAR” (Dir. Carlos Leiva), Third Prize School Film Competition Clermont-Ferrand 2011).

ANNIVERSARY

The Association of Chilean Short Filmmakers (ACORCH) is one of the oldest of its kind in South America and will celebrate its 20^th Anniversary on February 2 in the context of Clermont-Ferrand. The event will be hosted by Luciano Martínez Bogdanovic, president of the organization.

“Being in Clermont-Ferrand for the anniversary of our organization is an important highlight for ACORCH during its 20^th birthday. This is also a very important event for us in terms of contacts and experiences to nurture our objective of inaugurating on december 2012 the first shortfilm market in Chile, which will offer an interesting catalog of fresh South American shortfilms”, said Martínez.

“La película dirigida por Matías Bize, y ganadora de un premio Goya en 2010 como Mejor Película Extranjera de Habla Hispana, entre otros, se estrenó en Rumania el pasado 13 de enero, bajo el nombre de “Viata Pestilor”

Junto con el reconocimiento en los Premios Goya, la cinta protagonizada por Santiago Cabrera y Blanca Lewin, obtuvo también el Colón de Oro, en los Premios del Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva, como Mejor Guión y el reconocimiento como Mejor Producción Iberoamericana en los Premios Buñuel.

Por su parte “Qué Pena Tu Boda”, una comedia romántica de Nicolás López, se estrenó el 12 de enero en Perú, esperando tener la misma recepción que tuvo “Qué Pena Tu Vida”.

Protagonizada por Ariel Levy y Andrea Velasco, logró más de cien mil espectadores en menos de dos semanas en nuestro país, espera lograr el mismo recibimiento en el país vecino.

Teniendo en cuenta el auge que ha tenido esta materia a nivel nacional, CINEMACHILE invita a todos los realizadores chilenos seguir generando contenido documental para estar dentro de los nominados en el PUMA Creative Impact Award y continuar por la senda de reconocimientos a nivel internacional que ya se han obtenido hasta ahora.

En su primera edición los documentales que fueron premiados fueron, “The Age of The Stupid”, “Birmania VJ”, “The End of the Line”, “El Misterio de Wells: La Batalla por la Corte Penal Internacionacional”, “Trouble the Water”.

La película, dirigida por Dominga Sotomayor, compite en la principal categoría donde la disputa por el galardón más importante, el Tigre, se realiza sólo entre primeras o segundas películas de directores de todo el mundo.

“De Jueves a Domingo” competirá con otras 14 cintas de todo el mundo, “It Looks Pretty from a Distance”, Polonia/EE.UU.; “Romance Joe”, Corea del Sur; “A Fish”, Corea del Sur; “Return to Burma”, Myanmar; “Sudoeste”, Brasil; “L”, Grecia,; “Tokyo Playboy Club”, Japón; “Voice of My Father”, Turquía; “O som ao redor”, Brasil; “Living”, Rusia; “Egg and Stone”, China;  “Clip”, Serbia; “In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire”, Tailandia y “Black’s Game”, Islandia.

La competición del primer largo de Sotomayor marca el estreno mundial de la cinta e implica el retorno de la directora a Rotterdam donde años atrás compitió con su cortometraje “Videojuego”.

“De Jueves a Domingo” cuenta la historia de un viaje por un fin de semana largo de dos niños junto a sus padres, que están en una mala etapa de su matrimonio.

Junto con el largometraje de Sotomayor, Chile es representado en Rotterdam por “El Arca”, una coproducción holandesa dirigida por Cristóbal León y Joaquín Cociña.

Each year the Sundance Film Festival selects 200 films for exhibition from more than 9,000 submissions. More than 50,000 people attend screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah. In addition to discovering filmmaking’s newest talent through the Festival’s program of documentary, dramatic, and short films, Festivalgoers experience live music performances, panel discussions with leading filmmakers and industry figures, cutting-edge media installations, parties celebrating the Festival community, and more.

“Chilean cinema has won its own spot among international film critics and spectators, exporting quality films to the main festivals and markets around the world, that is why it is so important to have a sole brand unitying the Chilean audiovisual production under one name. This allows to nurture and strengthen the prestige and tradition that Chilean cinema has won over the years, including progressively the same success for tv contents  developed in Chile”, said Constanza Arenas, executive director of CINEMACHILE.

CHILEAN CINEMA

“YOUNG AND WILD” is Marialy Rivas’s last film and tells the story Daniela, a petite, pretty teenager raised in the bosom of a strict and well-to-do evangelical family in Santiago, Chile. Daniela is also a 17-year-old who finds that her raging sexual drive is difficult to reconcile with the orders of her religion. With no outlet for her desire, Daniela taps into a rampant underground network of other horny teenagers through her sexually charged blog.   The film will be screened at Berlin film festival on february an will later have its chilean premiere in may. Last year, her short film “BLOCKS” (“BLOKES”) won best short film at Miami International Film Festival.

The other film in competition is “VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN”, by Andrés Wood, a promising director who has possitioned Chilean cinema on an international level with the films “MACHUCA” and “THE GOOD LIFE”, later production that won the Goya for best Hispanicamerican Film en 2009.   Like a Chilean Edith Piaf or Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra was a folksinger and pop culture icon whose songs, like “Gracias a la Vida,” expressed the soul of her nation and protested social injustice. “VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN” tells Parra’s extraordinary story, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation to Chile’s national hero, while capturing the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities, and passions.

La cinta chilena compite en la categoría Mejor Película Iberoamericana con “Un Cuento Chino”, de Argentina; “Boleto al Paraíso”, de Cuba y “Miss Bala”, de México.

La película, protagonizada por Francisca Gavilán, es el tercer trabajo de Wood que ha sido nominado en este certamen, en 2005 estuvo en competencia con “Machuca” y en 2009 ganó con “La Buena Vida”.

“Violeta Se Fue a Los Cielos”, ha recibido diferentes premios desde su lanzamiento. En noviembre pasado el Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva entregó a Andrés Wood el Colón de Plata por Mejor Dirección y entregó a Francisca Gavilán el premio a Mejor Actriz.

La cinta también ha sido reconocida a nivel nacional en los Premios Pedro Sienna, obteniendo el galardón como Mejor Largometraje de Ficción y Francisca Gavilán obtuvo el premio a Mejor Interpretación Protagónica Femenina. Junto con esto, la película ganó también en las categorías Mejor Dirección de Arte y Mejor Diseño de Vestuario.

Los ganadores de los premios Goya se darán a conocer el próximo 19 de febrero en una ceremonia a realizarse en España.

La película, estrenada en 2011 en Londres, obtuvo buena recepción en aquel país, además de un fuerte apoyo de su distribuidora en Gran Bretaña lo que ayudó a que consiguiera un cupo en el primer corte de los BAFTA.

El film de Larraín, premiada en los festivales de La Habana y Guadalajara y ambientada en los años del golpe de Estado en Chile, compite con “Abel”, de México; “As If Am Not There”, Irlanda; “The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan”, Gran Bretaña; “Calvet”, Costa Rica/Francia; “Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)”, India; “Incendies”, Canadá; “Little White Lies”, Alemania; “Pina”, Alemania; “Potiche”, Francia; “Le Guattro Volte”, Italia; “A Separation”, Irán; “La Piel Que Habito”, España;  “Tomboy”, Francia y “The Troll Hunter”, Noruega.

Los nominados finales a esta categoría se conocerán el próximo 17 de enero, mientras que los ganadores se conocerán en la gala de los premios el 12 de febrero.

Una nueva nominación obtuvo el documental “Nostalgia de la Luz”, del chileno Patricio Guzmán. En esta ocasión fue el Sindicato de Guionista de Hollywood quien reconoció al largometraje nacional para ser partícipe de esta premiación.
La cinta, que formó parte de la campaña de promoción de CinemaChile en la misión Cannes 2010, está compitiendo con el último film del alemán Wim Wenders, “Pina”, el cual es considerado como uno de los mejores documentales europeos del 2011.

Los premios que se entregan desde 1949, tienen compitiendo en la categoría Mejor Guión Documental al largometraje chileno junto con “Better This World”, escrita por Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega; “If a Tree Falls”, escrita por Marshall Curry and Matthew Hamachek; “Position Among the Starts”, con guión de Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich, Leonard Retel Helmrich; “Pina”, de Wim Wenders y “Senna”, escrita por Manish Pandey.

Los resultados se darán a conocer el próximo 19 de febrero.