– The documentary sectorial brand continues its growth path, adding a new destination this year: the fifth edition of Getting Real, an event also attended by the production company Glaciar Films.
– Getting Real takes place from September 27 to 29 in a hybrid format in Los Angeles, United States.
Chilean documentary keeps strengthening, and Chiledoc adds an unprecedented destination this year: the fifth edition of Getting Real, the biennial meeting of the International Documentary Association IDA of the United States. Chiledoc attends the event for the first time, represented by Paula Ossandon and Diego Pino, director and deputy director, and Diego Breit, Glaciar Films’ producer, who has a feature film and a documentary series in his portfolio.
«The United States is a country which has an important number of commercial exchanges with Chilean audiovisual industry, so it’s essential to promote our projects there and create bonds with industry agents to get to know us and build trust,» says Paula Ossandón.
Diego Pino adds: «Our participation at Getting Real represents a great challenge since we are going to establish links between the Chilean documentary sector and the great American audiovisual industry, looking for new networks with distributors, sales agents, funds, markets, festivals, TV channels and other producers from North America.»
«Flipping the Frame» is the Getting Real’s theme for this year, seeking to illustrate that they will approach the documentary’s foundational quandaries from a different angle. «Traditional power dynamics — between funder and filmmaker, documentarian and subject, distributor and exhibitor — will be subverted, as we seek visionary solutions to age-old problems of documentary creation and circulation,» its website states.
The projects
Diego Breit, director, and producer, attends as a representative of Glaciar Films, his production company house behind two Chilean projects that will be present at this edition of Getting Real.
«We are taking two projects seeking distribution windows that we consider interesting to present there. The first one is the coproduction Building Visions; the second is Alien Island, a project about aliens and Human Rights, which we believe could appeal to the North American market,» says Breit.
The feature film Alien Island, directed by Cristóbal Valenzuela and produced by Diego Breit, narrates the story of a group of people that in the mid-80s began communicating through radio with some mysterious characters with foreign accents and who claimed to live on a «Friendship Island», with a close relationship with an alien race. This is the starting point to one of the weirdest cases in recent ufological history. A path where truth and lies intersected in such a way as to generate a delirious contemporary myth with thousands of followers that only seems to be understood by exploring its main character’s mind and enigmatic past.
Building Visions, a coproduction between Chile and Austria, is directed by Diego Breit and produced by Markus Glaser, David Bohun, Wolfgang Wiederhofer, Lixi Frank, Michael Kitzberger, and Nikolaus Geyrhalter. It is a four-episode series featuring architects seeking answers to the big questions our civilization faces today. They address connectivity, climate change, rapidly growing cities, local community engagement, education, and migration. In each episode, we accompany this group of architects to places where money is tight, social grievances prevail, and climate change threatens the environment. In Building Visions these vision builders tell us about the ideas and ideals that drive them.
Chile’s participation in Getting Real is organized by Chiledoc, a sectorial brand whose mission is to promote Chilean documentaries worldwide, based on values such as the quality and diversity of the creators and their projects and the associative nature of our community. It is boosted by ProChile and the Chilean Documentary Corporation CCDoc.
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