Animalia Paradoxa
Fiction feature, 83 minutes
Niles Atallah: Writer, Director, Co-Editor, Image Post-Production Artist and Co-Colorist with Diego Seye. Producer: Catalina Vergara. Production: Globo Rojo Films and Diluvio (Chile). Co-Editor: Mayra Morán. Cinematographer: Matías Illanes. Production Designer: Natalia Geisse. Original Music: Sebastián Jatz Rawicz. Principal Cast: Andrea Gómez.
Awards
2024 FicViña — Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar, Chile — Best National Feature Film.
2024 FicViña, Chile — Héctor Ríos Award for Best Cinematography — Matías Illanes.
Selected festivals and screenings
2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands — Harbour; world premiere.
2024 FICValdivia, Valdivia, Chile — Chilean premiere.
2024 DOK Leipzig, Germany — International Competition Animated Film.
2024 EnergaCAMERIMAGE, Toruń, Poland — Artistic Experiments: Explorers of Form and Image.
2024 Fantasia International Film Festival, Montréal, Canada — North American premiere.
2024 International Film Festival of India, Goa, India — Experimental programme; Asian premiere.
Funding and support
By 2021 Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual, Chile — Production support. Developed initially as a short-film project before completion as the 2024 feature.
Distribution and releases
Chilean theatrical release: 2024 Distributed internationally by Compañía de Cine (Argentina).
Rey / King
Fiction feature, 90 minutes
Niles Atallah: Writer and Director. Producers: Lucie Kalmar, Catalina Vergara and Niles Atallah. Production: Mômerade (France), Diluvio (Chile), Circe Films (Netherlands), unafilm (Germany), and Doha Film Institute (Qatar), with EYE Filmmuseum, Kine-Imágenes and Sonamos as Co-Producers. Editor: Benjamin Mirguet. Principal Cast: Rodrigo Lisboa and Claudio Riveros.
Awards
2017 IFFR, Rotterdam, Netherlands — Hivos Tiger Competition — Special Jury Award, Hivos Tiger Competition.
2017 FICUNAM, Mexico City, Mexico — Audience Award.
2017 Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, France — French Critics’ Discovery Award / Prix Découverte de la Critique Française.
2017 Pacific Meridian / Vladivostok International Film Festival, Russia — FIPRESCI Prize.
2017 Olhar de Cinema, Curitiba, Brazil — Honorable Mention.
2017 FicWallmapu, Chile — Best Fiction.
c. 2017 Ojoloco, Grenoble, France — Audience Award.
2018 BioBioCine, Concepción, Chile — Best Fiction Feature.
2018 Festival Audiovisual Latinoamericano, Argentina — Special Mention.
Selected festivals and screenings
2017 IFFR, Rotterdam, Netherlands — Hivos Tiger Competition; world premiere.
2017 FICValdivia, Valdivia, Chile — International Competition; Chilean premiere.
2017 FICUNAM, Mexico City — International Competition; Audience Award.
2017 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Fiction Competition.
2017 32nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina — Festival selection.
2017 Torino Film Festival, Italy — Festa Mobile / TorinoFilmLab programme.
2017 Olhar de Cinema, Curitiba, Brazil — Festival screening; Honorable Mention.
2018 Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián, Spain — Zabaltegi–Tabakalera + PLUS 2018; screening on 22 December.
Distribution and releases
Theatrical circulation in Chile, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil; subsequent digital and home-video distribution.
Distributors — Damned Films (France, 2017); DCI (Chile, 2018); HOME Artist Film (United Kingdom, 2018).
2017 Mômerade, France — International sales representation for Rey.
2018 Chile — Theatrical release on 11 January.
2018 United Kingdom — Theatrical release on 5 January, distributed by HOME Artist Film.
2018 Brazil — Theatrical presentation at IMS Paulista, São Paulo, opening 22 June.
2018 EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands — Previously Unreleased programme and Dutch distribution; theatrical release on 23 August.
2018 HOME Artist Film, United Kingdom — Home-video release; available on DVD from June 2018.
c. 2018 United Kingdom — BFI Player — Rental catalogue entry.
2020 MUBI, Mexico — Historical platform programming, including the August 2020 line-up.
Funding and support
2015 Doha Film Fund / Doha Film Institute, Qatar — Post-production support.
2015 TorinoFilmLab Distribution Fund, Italy — Distribution Fund support.
2014 CNC, Aide aux cinémas du monde, France — Production support for Rey.
2013 NRW Film Fund, Germany — Production support for Rey, through the German co-production.
2013 Hubert Bals Fund Plus, Netherlands — Production/co-production support. Distinct from the 2010 development grant.
2012 TorinoFilmLab, Italy — Production Award for Rey, awarded through Framework. The development programme is detailed under Residencies, artistic research and laboratories.
2011 TorinoFilmLab — Framework Award for Rey at the conclusion of Script & Pitch.
2011 CORFO, Chile — Development grant for Rey.
2010 Amiens International Film Festival, France — Amiens Script Development Fund award.
2010 Hubert Bals Fund, Netherlands — Script and Project Development grant for Rey.
2010 Australab, FICValdivia, Chile — Project prize for Rey: selection to the Amiens Script Fund competition.
Lucía
Debut fiction feature, 80 minutes
Niles Atallah: Writer, Director and Cinematographer. Producers: Francisco Albornoz and Niles Atallah, Diluvio. Co-Producers: José Luis Torres Leiva and Gabriela Sobarzo, Lupita Films (Chile). Editors: José Luis Torres Leiva and Andrea Chignoli. World premiere: San Sebastián International Film Festival, Zabaltegi–New Directors. Co-Producer: Francisco Albornoz. Sound Design: Roberto Espinoza. Principal Cast: Gabriela Aguilera, Gregory Cohen, Esperanza Silva and Eduardo Barril.
Awards
2011 Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse / Cinélatino, France — FIPRESCI International Critics Prize.
2011 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — French Critics’ Discovery Prize.
2011 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Special Jury Coup de Cœur Prize.
2011 DIFF, Festival Internacional de Cine Digital, Viña del Mar, Chile — Honorary Mention.
2010 Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, Chile — Best Director, National Feature Film Competition.
2010 Festival de Cine B 3, Santiago, Chile — Best Visual Work.
Selected festivals and screenings
2010 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Spain — Zabaltegi–New Directors; world premiere.
2010 FICValdivia, Valdivia, Chile — National Feature Film Competition.
2010 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, Cuba — Ópera Prima / debut feature competition.
2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands — Bright Future.
2011 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Feature Film Competition; three awards.
2011 Istanbul International Film Festival / İKSV, Turkey — Mined Zone.
2011 EYE Film Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands — Cinema Chile / Muestra de Cine Chileno, June.
Distribution and releases
Chilean theatrical release: 4 August 2011, including Cine UC.
2011 RAMONDAParis, Paris, France — International sales / world rights representation. Contact: Pascale Ramonda.
By 2012 Cineteca Nacional de México — Mexican exhibition, DVD and online distribution rights, as reported to the Hubert Bals Fund.
By 2012 Filmin (Spain); Bazuca and VTR (Chile) — Online / video-on-demand distribution rights, as reported to the Hubert Bals Fund.
2023 IFFR Unleashed — Historical streaming-catalogue inclusion documented in a study completed in August 2023; the study notes territorial unavailability in Chile. Current availability is not asserted.
Funding and development
2010 Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Chile — Post-production grant.
2010 Cine en Construcción 17, Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Work-in-progress industry selection.
2009 Global Film Initiative, San Francisco, United States — Post-production grant.
2009 Cine en Construcción 16, San Sebastián, Spain — Work-in-progress industry selection.
2008 Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam, Netherlands — Digital-production support.