Camila José Donoso (“Naomi Campbel”) is gearing up to shoot her fourth pic, “Antitropical,” with Roberto Doveris’ Niña Niño Films producing. The hybrid docu-fiction will be shot in a documentary style over several months. It will begin in October and continue into the new year. It’s also received some additional support from Chile’s Audiovisual Production Fund.
The 18ThSantiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic), Niña Niño Films is screening docu “Me gustaría que vivieras mi juventud de nuevo” (“I’d Like You to Live My Youth Again”), Nicolás Guzmán’s third film, co-produced with Francisca Soto and renowned filmmaker Alicia Scherson (“Il Futuro”).
Donoso, as in her films before, plays with the boundaries between documentary and fiction. “It is a project that I began to develop when I was researching the world of café brothels [dubbed cafes con pierna in Chile] for my first film, almost 10 years ago,”Donoso. “There I met two immigrant women from the Caribbean who will be the main characters of this story,”She said, “Additionally: “In addition, the film will be shot in 16mm, and combine non-actors with professional actors, proposing a staging that stretches the limits of fiction.”
Donoso has written the screenplay with Alejandra Moffat, co-writer of Manuela Martelli’s lauded “1976,”This year, which world premiered at Cannes.
“Antitropical”Susy, a Dominican redhead, plays herself and will help Deisi, a Colombian immigrant to Chile, understand the sex market in Chile. She is a new arrival and struggles to survive in Santiago’s cold, inhospitable capital. “that is collapsing in the face of migration and racism, where she also serves as a psychologist for her clients, sad, lonely men who inhabit the ‘cafes con piernas’ like ghosts,”The synopsis follows.
“For Niña Niño Films it is a privilege to be able to carry out Camila’s new project,”Doveris. “We are fans of her previous films and her vision fits very well with our mission to collaborate with female directors and with members of the LGBTQ+ community,”He added.
“This story also opens up new issues for us, mainly linked to intersectionality, where identity is crossed by questions of race, gender, class and sexuality, and where none of these terms is a foregone conclusion. We like that Camila also offers a complex look at her characters and avoids any stereotypes,”Doveris noted.
In May, Niña Niño Films released medical drama “El Pa(de)ciente” (“(Im)Patient”) by Constanza Fernández, which had a notable six-week run in local theaters. Starring Héctor Noguera and Amparo Noguera, it played at the the Busan IFF in 2021 and won the Colón de Plata at the Huelva Film Festival.
The international premiere of the dramedy is being prepared by the company. “Las Demás” (“Outsider Girls”Alexandra Hyland’s candid portrait of the difficulties that Chilean women must endure in order to obtain an abortion without the law.
Donoso is also involved in the development of “Transfrontera,”This project aims to bring cinematography to the border between Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Peru. Carolina Moscoso will also be producing Donoso’s new film.“Night Vision”(2019), An autobiographical documentary titled “I Will Never Be a Police Officer”That she comments on relatives who are police officers in Chile.