spoke to director Christopher Murray about the film, which is co-produced by Mexico’s Pimienta Films and Germany’s The Match Factory Productions, with The Match Factory handling world sales.
The director spent three years visiting Chiloé and living among its villagers and indigenous communities, a process whose “openness” and “respect” he said were integral to the writing of the script. “You start to travel throughout these relationships, where people start to talk about the problems a neighbor had with sorcerers. And then you get tangled in this world,” Murray said. “I think now, after a three-year research process, we built a relationship, we built a connection. That’s important to nurture the script, the story, but also, to know how to treat the story, to be respectful of the island world.
The film is being pitched on the eve of a historic referendum in Chile, where this month voters will turn out to decide on the drafting of a new constitution. The current version was introduced under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and among other contentious points fails to recognize the sovereignty of Chile’s indigenous communities, said Murray.
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