Synopsis

During the first days after the 1973 coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and transferred to Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then political prisoners began an incessant effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they meet and spontaneously organize into what they call the group of the «Dawsonianas».
United in the desperate enterprise, using all their national and international contacts, they face personally the highest military commanders, including Pinochet, putting their lives and that of their families at risk. Their denunciations finally begin to have an echo, thus beginning the international political pressure that ends in the opening of detention centers to the Red Cross and the foreign press.
The journalist Angélica Beas, ex-wife of Carlos Jorquera, Salvador Allende’s press secretary also taken to Dawson Island, decides 45 years later to go in search of these testimonies and reunite the “Dawsonianas”.
The record includes the testimonies of Moy de Tohá, Isabel Morel, Irma de Almeyda, Lily Corbalán, María Elisa Cruz, Angélica Silva, Kenny Hirmas, Adriana Rondón, Lilla Ojalvo, María Mercedes Costa, Moira Lavanderos.

Team

• Roberto

  Riveros

  Director

  Documentalist. Director of Photography, screenwriter and journalist, with studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Institute of Communication and Image (ICEI), University of Chile. His work includes feature documentaries, television series and short films, awarded at national and international film festivals and shown on television channels such as TVN and 13C. He has worked for the Univisión-Televisa network, Chilevisión and on numerous projects that have won competitions sponsored by CORFO, CNCA and CNTV.

Technical Info

Year of production: 2023
Format: Full HD
Duration: 63 min.
Country/es: Chile
Director: Roberto Riveros
Producer: Maria Angélica Beas, Sergio Campos, Roberto Riveros
Production house: Cintámani Films
Website: www.cinandocom/cintamanifilms
Social networks: www.facebook.com/cintamanifilms
Distributor or sales agent: Soledad Cáceres, Cintámani Films

Awards and Official Selections

The Monthly Film Festival, Glasgow, UK, Jan 01, 2023 – Nominated Best Trailer
Latino & Native American Film Festival, New Haven, CT, USA, 1 Apr. 13.2023 Finalist Best Documentary
Viña del Mar International Film Festival, Oct 2023, Nominated for Best Documentary Soundtrack
Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions by Lift-Off Global Network, Iver, UK, Feb. 06. 2023
Kalakari film fest, Dewas, India, Mar 18, 2023
Denver Monthly Film Awards, Denver, CO, USA, May 31, 2023
AEI Film Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, Jul 17, 2023
Ischia Global Film Festival, Ischia, Italy, Jul 9, 2023
Chania Film Festival and Chania Film Festival Edu, Chania, Greece, Oct. 18 2023
Anti War Independent film Festival, Virumaa, Estonia, Aug 18, 2023
Cinemaking International Film Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 27, 2023
Honorable Mention – Mental Health, Austral International Film Festival, Córdoba, Argentina, January 2024
Jury Prize, Sessions, Lift Off Global Network, London, United Kingdom, December 2023
Nomination Best Documentary Project – A Royal Chance Film Festival, February 2024