Inspired by the victims of violent crackdowns by Chilean police, filmmaker Hernán Caffiero is looking to tell their story.
“We know that in the next six months or one year, these kinds of cases, these crimes, will be made to disappear.” Chilean filmmakers and industry reps attending the European Film Market in Berlin on Sunday made an effort to do just that when they united in protest against the police brutality in their country that has left 445 people with severe eye injuries or blinded, many after being shot by police.
More than 40 people have been killed in the protests and, according to data from Chile’s National Institute of Human Rights, some 3,800 injured, including 2,122 wounded by gun fire.President Sebastián Piñera