The CPH:DOX documentary festival, which will be held in a hybrid format between April 21 and May 2 in Copenhagen, will welcome the virtual reality project, Symbiotica, as part of its Official Selection at CPH:LAB and a series of projects such as Breaking the Brick, by Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano, directors of Chicago Boys, and the documentary Malqueridas, recent winner of the DOK Leipzig Award at the Swiss market Visions du Réel 2021.
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Symbiotica is an online interactive virtual reality system that, using augmented reality filters, allows the audience to personify different organisms as a root, a tree or a fungi, configuring this as a collective performance, inviting users to create an expansive virtual space through the connection of the different senses. The project, led by Natalia Cabrera, Juan Ferrer and Sebastián González, has already won awards, such as the Booster Award for immersive projects at Stereopsia Belgium 2019, and it is the second project carried out jointly by the Fungi Foundation, Museo del Hongo (The Mushroom Museum) and the production company Maltrato Films.
This year the project was selected to participate in CPH:LAB, the laboratory of CPH:DOX, a space dedicated to strengthening talents by working with new narratives in digital formats. This opens up new opportunities for both Symbiotica and other Chilean projects. «The festival is also an opportunity to bond with the Nordic industry» says Paula Ossandón, director of Chiledoc.
It is the first time that the sectoral brand Chiledoc attends the Danish festival, which will attend in the company of the Chilean delegation composed of nine film professionals. «We are proud to arrive with a delegation of notable filmmakers as well as the creators of Symbiotica» says Ossandón.
The Danish market, created in 2003, appears as a great territory for the documentary industry as it has the participation of some of the most important international players for the media arts. «We are very happy with the selection of our new project at the CPH:DOX festival, and to participate for the second year in this important context of the European film industry.» says Sebastián González, producer of the film and member of Maltrato Films, who already last year had a first opportunity to be part of the CPH laboratory.
Five projects will participate in this instance, including Malqueridas, who recently won the DOK Leipzig award in the Swiss market Visions du Réel 2021. The film, directed by Tana Gilbert and produced by Paola Castillo, tells of a group of women in prison who reconstruct their experience of motherhood through videos and photographs that they record with forbidden cell phones. The documentary was part of the Visions du Réel Official Selection and won the DOK Leipzig Award for VdR Industry 2021, which will allow it to participate in the DOK Leipzig festival and its market, DOK Co-Pro Market, in October this year.
Another film that joins this event is Drifting Images, a project that won the IDFA Project Award in Chile Conecta 2019, which allowed it to participate in the IDFA Academy last year. It is directed by Nicolás Tabilo and produced by Felipe Garrido and Bettina Walter, the latter, director of studies at Campus Latino, an important training program open to documentary filmmakers from Latin America and Spain who are looking for an international audience.
Breaking the brick, by directors and producers Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano, is another participant film of the delegation and gives an account of a jaded multitude that, living under the neoliberal economic model established by the Chicago Boys in Chile, rises throughout the country demanding economic and social transformations.
Also Cagliostro: Film Poet, by Orlando Torres, will be part of this mission as well, a documentary in which its director relives the script of a film never made before.
Ancestral Secret VR, directed and produced by Francisca Silva and María José Díaz, winner of the Best Digital Experiences Pitch, Sunny Side of The Doc 2020, is a film that proposes a magical journey through the Q’ero cosmovision, that redefines the relationship between humanity and Mother Earth. An immersive experience that breaks the physical boundaries of reality.
In Wenuywen, directed by Lorenzo Aillapán and Roberto Riveros and produced by Denisse Castillo, Aillapán transforms his latest literary work into four short films. To this end, he will guide four artists in an interdisciplinary creative process, from which will emerge a profound dialogue on the representation of the Mapuche world and philosophy.
CPH:DOX is recognized for hosting a diversity of formats, narratives and new media that gives it a particular character, an event that this year has 180 documentary films, interactive art and a strong market for screenings and funding for audiovisual works in development.
The virtual participation to the festival and market CPH:DOX in Copenhagen is financed by Prochile and managed by Chiledoc, the sectoral brand of the national documentary.
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