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Chile’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Bestia’ Director Hugo Covarrubias Preps Debut Feature ‘Baptism’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Covarrubias is teaming with the producer of Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León's standout titles "The Bones" and "The Wolf House."
Sticking with the medium that earned him an Oscar nod for the 2022 short “Bestia,” Covarrubias’ project is an animated, regressive psychological drama that unspools across three decades, following the daily, social and political lives of a middle-class family in Santiago. The film’s intergenerational narrative is visited through the perspective of Héctor, who, after learning that the VHS tape of his belated baptism has been lost, begins to revisit blurry memories of his childhood and youth, filling in the blanks of his family’s history during the years of Chile’s military dictatorship. As a project, the stop-motion feature received the Fondo de Fortalecimiento, a public grant from Chile’s Ministry of Culture, the Arts and Heritage.
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