Forum of Independents - Competition 2005 / Machuca / Chile, Spain 2004
Chile 1973. Two children, aged 11: Gonzalo Infante from a well-to-do family and Pedro Machuca, a peasant’s son, meet in a posh Catholic school, run by an idealistic Catholic priest, Father MacEnroe, whose aim is to teach respect and tolerance at a time when the country’s political and social climate is degenerating.
Chile 1973. Two children, aged 11: timid Gonzalo Infante comes from a well-to-do family living in a fashionable part of town; Pedro Machuca, a peasant’s son, gets by in a shantytown. These two children, who have nothing in common, will meet at school thanks to the initiative of an idealistic Catholic priest, Father MacEnroe. His aim is to integrate children from underprivileged sectors of the population into the superior Catholic school he heads in Santiago. His aim is to teach respect and tolerance at a time when the country’s political and social climate is degenerating.
120 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Andrés Wood
/ Screenplay Roberto Brosky, Mamoun Hassan, Andrés Wood
/ Dir. of Photography Miguel J. Littin
/ Music José Miguel Miranda
/ Editor Fernando Pardo
/ Producer Gerardo Herrero
/ Production Paraiso Production koprodukce/co-production Wood Producciones
/ Cast Ariel Mateluna, Matias Quer, Manuela Martelli
/ Contact Latido Films, Paraiso Production
www: www.machucacine.cl
Andrés Wood (b. 1965, Santiago) majored in economics in Chile. In 1990, he studied film at NYU. In 1992, he made his first short, Idilio, then Reunión de la familia in 1994. His first feature, Historias de fútbal, was released in Chile in 1997. La fiebre del loco, his second feature, made in 2000, was selected for the 2001 Venice Film Festival.
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