Emol announces the support of Ibermedia to “Ilusiones Ópticas”
Published Wednesday, July 25, 2007 by Retaguardia Films | E-mail this post
Santiago.- The first feature of the director Cristián Jiménez, “Ilusiones Ópticas” and the documentary of Germán Berger “Vida con Carlos”, that tells the family story of his father, missing during the military government, where the winners of the first annual awards of Fondo Ibermedia.
Jimenez’s film, which will begin it’s shoot in august, will receive 100 thousand dollars, with which the post-production would be completely financed. The film is co-produced by Filmes de Fundo from Portugal. This means that two Portuguese actresses will join the cast.
The story of “Ilusiones Ópticas” divides in three: A guard that falls in love of a woman that steals in the mall he is working in, a perfect employee that is removed form his work position into an almost nonexistent one, and a blind guy who has an operation to get back his sight, that doesn’t work at all. The three stories take place in the cold winter of Valdivia, having its common point in Manuela, the character played by Paola Lattus. The cast is also conformed by Valentina Vargas, Álvaro Rudolphy, Alejandro Trejo and Gegory Cohen, between others.
“Vida con Carlos”, is a family story of Carlos Berger, who disappeared after he was captured in 1973 by the militias and then executed by the so-called Caravana de la Muerte (The Caravan of the Death). Germán Berger his own son narrates the story and who has been in Chile for more than a year producing the film (actually he lives in Spain since 9 years).
The documentary won 60 thousand dollars and is co produced by Spanish and German companies.
The winning projects where announced this morning by the Minister of Culture, Paulina Urrutia, in presence of the two directors in Café Torres of the Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda.
“Ilusiones Ópticas” and “Vida con Carlos” are the two winning projects of the first call of Ibermedia of the year. For the second call of the same year the films “Tony Manero” of Pablo Larraín, and “Lección de Pintura” of Pablo Perelmab are in the waiting list as well as an Argentinean project with the participation of Aplaplac producer.
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