A year after the conflict
This project arises from a breaking point in the lives of the inhabitants of the Chiloé archipelago and Los Lagos region in Chile. The crisis generated by the subsequent appearance of toxins in the seas of the archipelago provoked the prohibition of extracting shellfish. In response, the salmon industry poured more than 39,942.5 tonnes of dead salmon both at landfills and at sea. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back in an area with an extremely fragile environmental balance. From there on, the chilotes would call it “the death of the sea”.
Due to the indignation of the community and the government’s attempt to minimize the conflict, a mobilization began cutting off accesses and main roads to Isla Grande. This generated tensions between the labor unions that participated in the mobilization and the Government, which has tried to tone down conflicts in territories distant to the capital on several occasions.
“Soberanía” is a documentary feature that narrates from an emotional perspective the experience of a community that faces the pain of wondering: is it possible for the sea to die? This journey allows us to generate questions about how decisions are made in our country and to realize it is important that both the communities and the State must be able to go beyond just reacting to catastrophes.
What we want.
We have an 80 minute version of the documentary and the editing phase will end in June, to start the process of image and sound post production. Our goal is to finish this film by July of this year and make a tour on the places where we filmed, exhibiting the documentary to the communities that were part of this event. At the same time, we want to screen this film in cities with important aquaculture activity as Puerto Montt, Talcahuano, Constitución and Valparaiso during 2017.
An event of this type goes down on the history of a community and we hope to contribute in the construction of a perspective that allows us to face future challenges, gathering and passing experience on to different generations and territories but to achieve this, we need help.
We are responsible for making public that this is a job that requires a lot of support and fundraising allows us to do it in the best way possible. The fact of making a documentary without any financing creates the enormous risk of not being able to finish the project nor have the possibility to distribute it, since generally the team is who assumes the greater amount of costs in artistic projects.
We are Cesar Fuenzalida, María Jesús Torres and Carlos Montes de Oca, a group of filmmakers graduated from the University of Chile who have worked on different projects linked to documentary films and artistic creations. We work cooperatively from the need to tell powerful stories. Our cinematographic work makes sense when we understand the motivation of our protagonists to inform what they are living and to reflect from collective experiences.
Here you can watch our trailer:
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaa6yNThElI&t=11s
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