{"id":10986,"date":"2022-10-14T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/?p=10986"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:43:34","slug":"29th-valdivia-international-film-festival-opens-with-premiere-of-recovered-documentary-by-valeria-sarmiento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/en\/29th-valdivia-international-film-festival-opens-with-premiere-of-recovered-documentary-by-valeria-sarmiento\/","title":{"rendered":"29th Valdivia International Film Festival opens with premiere of recovered documentary by Valeria Sarmiento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Opening ceremony was hosted by actress Mariana Loyola.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The documentary short \u201cUn sue\u00f1o como de colores\u201d kicked off this new edition. Also screened was the trailer to \u201cRealismo socialista\u201d, by Ra\u00fal Ruiz, a new recovery by producers Poetastros, under the care of Chamila Rodr\u00edguez and Galut Alarc\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The event was broadcast via FICValdivia online platforms, social media, and ATV Valdivia and VTR channel 11 streaming signals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valdivia, October 10, 2022.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> At 8pm this past Monday October 10, the Opening Ceremony of the 29<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Valdivia International Film Festival took place at the Cervantes Theater. 500 people filled the venue to set off this edition that marks the awaited return to in-person activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are very happy to see each other once again, live,\u201d said <\/span><b>Mariana Loyola<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hosting the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Details of the films in the 2022 FICValdivia Official Selection were announced during the inauguration, along with the jury members that will have the task of evaluating and awarding these motion pictures. Likewise, the Opening, Central, and Closing Features, the Filmmakers on the Spotlight, and Tributes were revealed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the activity the audience heard remarks from the Minister of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, <\/span><b>Julieta Brodsky<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Los R\u00edos Regional Governor <\/span><b>Luis Cuvertino<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Valdivia Mayor, <\/span><b>Carla Amtmann Fecci<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Universidad Austral Prorector <\/span><b>Sandra Bucarey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; the Chair of the Board at the Valdivia Cultural Center for Film Promotion (CPCV), <\/span><b>Loreto Vega<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; and FICValdivia Director, <\/span><b>Ra\u00fal Camargo.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julieta Brodsky was the first authority to take the stage. She remarked \u201cthe achievement of 29 years carrying out the odyssey that is the festival, including two years in pandemic, which must have been very complex. They were not an impediment to continue generating identity, broadening cinema audiences, and projecting Los R\u00edos Region into the world.\u201d The Minister also valued returning to the cinema after the health restrictions. \u201cComing together again around the cinematographic experience is important, as it always invites us to create community. The Valdivia International Film Festival makes us think of a decentralized Chile, inviting us to learn about other views, sensibilities, and narratives, inspiring us to build a cohesive country, from our diverse cultures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are happy to recover public spaces, to recover also our relationship to nature,\u201d Los R\u00edos Regional Governor Luis Cuvertino emphasized. \u201cThe festival has brought Valdivia recognition, a heightened image, and national and international projection.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valdivia Mayor Carla Amtmann Fecci had moving words to highlight the future home of the Valdivia Cultural Center for Film Promotion (CPCV), valuing the return to venues, and projecting into the future. \u201cWe are going to face a complex year. We are in the antechamber to the festival\u2019s 30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> anniversary, in 2023, and it is going to be a hard year. The international context is complex: times of war, of violence, where extremist discourse gains traction, where an undervaluing of what makes us human takes over public debate, and amid a very complicated economic situation.\u201d The mayor pointed out that, facing this panorama, the temptation is cutting culture budgets. \u201cThere, we must reaffirm that culture also means greater neighborhood security; culture is also creating community and recovering public spaces; culture is, above everything, to continue to connect with what makes us human: our creative capacity, our sensibility, our ability to be surprised, to dream, to permanently embrace hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cToday, we can see the festival has consolidated throughout the entire region, an instance that is strongly engaged with the territory. It is from this territory in southern Chile that this festival projects today, thanks to joint effort from several sectors. Over 29 years, we have seen it become progressively more solidified, consolidated, and confident,\u201d Universidad Austral Prorector Sandra Bucarey said, in turn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter two years of online encounters, we are happy to meet, to see each other in this place, ready to kick off the 29<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> edition of the Valdivia International Film Festival. Returning to this space, and to the collective viewing of works from yesterday, today, and tomorrow fills us with emotion,\u201d were the words by CPCV Chair Loreto Vega, who shared with the audience images of a virtual model of the organization\u2019s future home\/cinema venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FICValdivia Director Ra\u00fal Camargo closed the opening remarks recognizing that \u201cwe are very moved by this return to venues. We are reuniting.\u201d He also referred to the time between the death of African filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, in 2020, and the recent passing of Jean-Luc Godard. \u201cThere is an intervening period between these two directors that were so important, regarding taking a political stance from the avant-garde,\u201d he analyzed, adding, \u201cwe learned many things from previous festivals, and what we learned was we wanted to make this one. This year is very complex. We deserve a celebration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the instance, festival organizers presented the Career Achievement Award to <\/span><b>Colectivo Cine Mujer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, formed in 1975, in the Cinematographic Studies Center at Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico (UNAM), by a group of visionary female filmmakers that opened debate around abortion, rape, domestic work, prostitution, and sexist education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rosa Martha Fern\u00e1ndez, Guadalupe S\u00e1nchez, Maricarmen de Lara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Sonia Fritz<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> went on stage to receive the Pud\u00fa statuettes from Ra\u00fal Camargo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grateful for the accolade, Fern\u00e1ndez valued the digitalization of negatives of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collectivo Cine Mujer <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">films, done by Filmoteca UNAM and FICValdivia. \u201cThey have invested effort and resources to restore, restitute, and recover. We will now see the films we made 50 years ago with dignity, as we made them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>THE RETURN OF RAUL RUIZ AND VALERIA SARMIENTO<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ceremony continued with a surprise that moved the audience: the screening of the trailer for \u201cRealismo Socialista\u201d, an unfinished film by Ra\u00fal Ruiz that is being recovered by Poetastros, the production house behind \u201cLa telenovela errante\u201d (2017) and \u201cEl tango del viudo y su espejo deformante\u201d (2020), two posthumous motion pictures of the cherished Chilean director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The advance was presented by <\/span><b>Chamila Rodr\u00edguez<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Galut Alarc\u00f3n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, from Poetastros, who shared details about the picture, shot between 1972 and 1973. \u201cReconstructing and repatriating Ra\u00fal\u2019s Chilean works, which for one reason or another he was unable to finish, has been a beautiful journey,\u201d said the actress and producer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opening ceremony concluded with the exclusive premiere of \u201cUn sue\u00f1o como de colores\u201d, by Valeria Sarmiento, a short film, shot in 1972, that was never screened because its negatives were lost after the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, until 2021. It finally saw the light thanks to recovery and restoration by the Universidad de Chile Cinematheque.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film centers on two young women that work as strip-dancers at cabarets Mon Bijou and Tap Room. It was filmed in 16mm, amid the overwhelming effervescence of the political and social processes Chile was undergoing. It features the participation of renowned Jorge M\u00fcller behind the camera, and Pepe de la Vega, in direct sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FICValdivia\u2019s 29<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> edition is taking place in October, from Monday 10 to Sunday 16, in a hybrid format, with eight in-person venues around the city. Additionally, there are other activities, talks, and live music performances. All the information at www.ficvaldivia.cl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FICValdivia is funded and organized by Universidad Austral de Chile; produced by the Valdivia Cultural Center for Film Promotion; convened by the Great City of Valdivia, the Los R\u00edos Regional Government, and Codeproval; financed by the Audiovisual Fund, the Collaborating Festivals Program of the Audiovisual Arts and Industry Council (Call 2021-2022), and the Collaborating Cultural Organizations Program of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opening ceremony was hosted by actress Mariana Loyola.\u00a0 \u00a0 The documentary short \u201cUn sue\u00f1o como de colores\u201d kicked off this new edition. 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