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Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Derek and Giorgia, a young couple of biologists, settle in Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, to develop their thesis. Loaded with traps and a camcorder, they investigate ways to stop the beaver plague that is destroying the forest. By observing the scientists in total isolation, exposed to cold and hunger, this film explores the link between nature and mankind.
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
During the period of Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990), a group of photographers portrayed the harsh conditions Chilean society. In the streets, along the protests marches, these photographers developed and created a metaphoric political language. To take pictures was an expression of freedom and an attempt to survive. In addition to collecting fragments of life during those years, their work was used as evidence to support victims' testimony of...
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Mauricio is a lifeguard at a popular beach in Chile. Unlike most lifeguards, Mauricio tries to steer clear from getting in the water and instead applies preventive measures to keep people from drowning. Problems arise when beach-goers don't listen to him and Mauricio decides he doesn't want to risk his life for them.
4) Genoveva
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is a story that links family memories with prejudices behind contemporary images of indigenous people. A picture of an elderly Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point for this documentary essay. Through the analysis of that image, interviews with family members and a journey through southern Chile, prejudices against indigenous people are examined. This film demonstrates how an image influences reality and explores the importance of recognizing...
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a circus featuring Cross-Dressing performers that has toured through Chile for forty years. His advanced age and health lead to concerns for the future of the show. Timoteo considers the possibility of retiring while still wishing to protect his circus.
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Hardy sells knickknacks on buses in Santiago. In 2005 a government plan worries him: Chile will soon be a "world class" country, so jobs like his no longer be tolerated. Hardy gathers two thousand colleagues and together they struggle to survive modernity.
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a mountain estate a group of Chileans make a radical decision: to leave behind their comfortable existence to isolate themselves in the country and practice an intense Christian lifestyle. When one of the group's members dies under strange circumstances, a harsh judicial process threatens their future as a collective. This is a story about faith, social prejudice, and the fine line between normalcy and insanity.
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Following the 1973 military coup in Santiago de Chile, a group of priests and laypeople working in the Vicariate of Solidarity began the dangerous task of trying to protect the persecuted and locate those who had been detained. Having realized that there was a concerted policy to eliminate dissidents, and in order to conceal their activities and those in charge, they adopted the tactics of a sophisticated intelligence team.
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This film follows a social experiment that moves marginalized families into a middle class neighborhood in Valparaiso, Chile. Iselsa and Cathy decide to take part in a project designed by leaders in social architecture which allow them to buy their own home and integrate them into a middle class neighborhood. Over 7 years they encounter scarce resources, neighbors that reject them, problems with construction and disastrous rain storms.
