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Sanfic Industria’s 2024 Work in Progress Offers Arresting Emerging Talents, Affecting Portraits of Latin America’s Challenges (EXCLUSIVE)
One of South America’s premier pix in post showcases, Santiago’s WIP offers a snapshot of Latin American social issue cinema.
Bio doc “The Last Witness” portrays the extraordinary Luis Poirot, appointed as a young shutterbug official photographer of Salvador Allende’s 1970 presidential campaign; he is still snapping photos of portraits, events – such as a famed Los Bunkers concert during the 2019 Estallido – near 55 years later. Produced and distributed by Cine UDD and written by Carrasco and Valentina Reyes, “The Clearing” is set in modern-day Santiago and tells the story of a young medical student who enters a virtual reality world to reunite with the love of his life, who recently passed away. From Peru’s Invisible Producciones, taking the initial POV of Nicolás, a Peruvian part of a European student elite – living in Paris in 2007, up for a scholarship to study in London – before he is forced to re-meet his mother in Lima, who abandoned him for political activism.
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