Interviews, publications & criticism

2026 — “Niles Atallah en Miradas: La vida de las imágenes.” Universidad UNIACC, August. Long-form video conversation with Marcelo Ferrari. 

2026 — Efecto Cineteca, episode 56, with Niles Atallah. Cineteca Nacional de Chile, August. Interview on animation and the Jornadas sobre Cine clinic. 

2026 — “Merrimundi — Niles Atallah: Interview.” Annecy Festival. Recorded Filmmaker interview; accessible through an indexed video mirror. 

2025 — “FICCALI Sessions #2 — Animación.” Oiga, vea! / Jambrina TV, 3 December. Conversation with Niles Atallah and Andrés Úzuga during the Cali film-festival programme. 

2024 — MUBI Podcast: Encuentros — Conversación: Niles Atallah + Elena Pardo. “El cine bajo sospecha”, season 6, episode 5. MUBI / La Corriente del Golfo, 22 May. Audio and video editions of the same conversation. 

2024 — Interview on Animalia Paradoxa, released 5 December. Title: “Niles Atallah dives deep into his latest film Animalia Paradoxa”. 

2024 — Cáceres, Pauli. Interview with Niles Atallah on Animalia Paradoxa. 31st FICValdivia, 16 October. 

2024 — Mosciatti, Ezio. “Niles Atallah y Animalia Paradoxa: Busca reflexionar, subvertir, transformar nuestros imaginarios.” BioBioChile TV, 3 December. Recorded interview accompanying the film’s Chilean release. 

2024 — Aparicio Ulloa, Emilia. “Niles Atallah, director de cine: ‘Hay una pobreza abrumante en los imaginarios de muchos cineastas’.” El Mostrador, 20 October. Video interview on Animalia Paradoxa, imaginative freedom and the relationship between cinema and dreams. 

2023 — ZINEBI65: “Elkarrizketa · Interview · Entrevista — Niles Atallah. VITANUOVA.” ZINEBI’s recorded Filmmaker interview, 23 November. 

2023 — SAE México. “Niles Atallah en SAE México.” Recorded masterclass, 8 June; associated with Juegos de subversión. El descontrol necesario para miradas vivas and FICUNAM’s Seminario El Público del Futuro. 

2021 — “El cine como vehículo mágico.” Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Arquitectura y Artes, 7 May. Recorded masterclass for the Línea Vinculante courses; faculty video playlist. 

2019 — El Desprecio. ESCENARIO, chapter 6: Rey. Documentary web-series episode in which theater director Ana Luz Ormazábal reflects on the film and speaks with its makers, including Niles Atallah. 

2018 — Molina, Paula. “La Historia es Nuestra: La curiosa historia del francés que quería reinar en ‘la Araucanía’.” Radio Cooperativa, 10 January. Radio conversation with Niles Atallah on Rey. 

2018 — “Rey es tan onírico como histórico, una experiencia visual y sensorial transformadora.” BioBioChile TV / Bio Bio Cultura, 10 January. Recorded conversation with Niles Atallah accompanying the film’s Chilean release. 

2017 — “Interview: Niles Atallah director of REY. Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam.” CinemaChile, 24 January. 

2017 — “Niles Atallah talks about his feature film King and historical ambiguity.” Recorded interview, 20 October. 

2017 — Cine en Los Ríos. Radio UC, 10 October. Conversation on animation with Niles Atallah, Fanny Leiva and José Miguel Barriga. 

2017 — “Tiger Talk #6: Rey.” International Film Festival Rotterdam, 31 January. Recorded conversation with Niles Atallah, hosted by Ludmila Cvikova. 

2011 — Radio Beethoven, Chile. Interview with Niles Atallah about Lucía. 9 August. Radio appearance documented by the filmmaker’s recollection. 

2011 — Radio Universidad de Chile. Interview with Niles Atallah about Lucía. Radio appearance documented by the filmmaker’s recollection; programme title and day/month not established. 

2010 — Casa de América, Madrid. “Entrevista a Niles Atallah.” Institutional video interview about the feature Lucía. 

2026 — Espinoza, Denisse. “Niles Atallah: sembrar una escena.” Mediales.art, 17 July. Profile of the Filmmaker and Fósfora. 

2026 La utopía retorcida — Radio Universidad de Chile — Exhibition interview / feature. 

2025 — Gamba, Pablo. “Conversación con Niles Atallah.” Los Experimentos, 17 September. Extended interview on Merrimundi, puppetry, analog and digital media, music, and the political and imaginative connections between his films. 

2025 — Malacchini, Stefania. “Niles Atallah: cine multidimensional.” Dossier 56, Universidad Diego Portales, October. Long-form interview on Merrimundi, the short-film form, hybrid materials and creative freedom. Photography: Celeste Rojas Mugica. 

2025 — Vera, Constanza. “Merrimundi: La película chilena de animación que critica la falsa utopía social y busca romper el cine ‘homogéneo’.” La Máquina Medio, 20 October. Interview with Niles Atallah, Producer Lucas Engel and Composer Paco Pasquette about the film’s conception, collaborative production and music. 

2024 — Bello, María José. “Niles Atallah: ‘El cine ha prolongado conceptos coloniales en sus patrones narrativos, en su estética y en sus métodos de producción’.” Cinémas d’Amérique latine 32: 122–135. Illustrated Spanish/French interview-based article on artistic formation, Diluvio, colonialism, Rey and Animalia Paradoxa. French translation: Carole Fillière. 

2024 — Jaure, Valeria. “FICVALDIVIA: Entrevista al director de Animalia Paradoxa, Niles Atallah: ‘Intento provocar un movimiento en el imaginario’.” Culturizarte, 8 November. 

2024 — Zouheir, Bilal. “Niles Atallah Interview – Director of ‘Animalia Paradoxa’.” Projektor / A Good Movie to Watch, 5 November. Extended conversation on dreams, the apocalypse, political imagination and the creative process of Animalia Paradoxa. 

2024 — Feest, Paula. “Apocalípsis, metaforfosis y el rol del arte: Niles Atallah presenta en cines ‘Animalia Paradoxa’.” La Hora, 2 December. Interview on the film’s post-apocalyptic world, metamorphosis and the role of art. 

2024 — Betancour, Felipe. “Niles Atallah, director de ‘Animalia Paradoxa’, y su estreno en el Festival de Cine de Valdivia: ‘Lo que importa es la colectividad que convoca el cine’.” The Clinic, 19 October. Interview on the film’s Chilean premiere, collective filmmaking and film-festival culture. 

2023 — Feodoroff, Nicolas. “Vitanuova: Interview with Niles Atallah.” FIDMarseille, 34th edition. Published Q&A on stop motion, the FICUNAM commission, clay, 16mm and digital processes, sound, and the film’s relationship to Dante. 

2022 — Niehaus-Del-Solar, Matthias. “El cine como vehículo mágico.” Espacio Transdisciplina 1: 22–36. DOI: 10.4206/retd.2022.n1-05. Published transcription of an interview by Matthias Niehaus Del Solar, coordinator of the Línea Vinculante, following the 7 May 2021 Universidad Austral de Chile lecture: Atallah’s path into cinema through music, painting and photography, materials and artistic processes, Diluvio, and the ecology of cinematic forms.

2021 — Rubio Ramírez, Roberto. “Niles Atallah: ‘Todo el cine es animación’.” Interview recorded in June 2019 for master’s research; published 15 May 2021 and updated 17 August 2022. 

2021 — Research interview with Bolesław Racięski, conducted online on 25 January. Documented in the references to Latin American Filmmakers and European Film Funds: Refuse. Resist. Reframe (Routledge, 2026); not a separately published audiovisual recording. 

2019 — Briese, Marianne. “Niles Atallah: ‘Entiendo la imagen como interferencia orgánica’.” Desistfilm, 27 August. Extended interview following the Cuerpo Luminoso 16mm workshop, on buried film stock, image materiality, Rey and experimentation as an artistic and ethical practice. 

2018 — “Tiger Award winner Niles Atallah on his project Rey.” CineSud Magazine, 28 May. 

2018 — García, Marta. “Niles Atallah, director de Rey.” LatAmCinema, 18 January. 

2018 — Águila, Marisol. “Entrevista a Niles Atallah: Rey es el viaje hacia el interior del espíritu o el alma de un fantasma.” El Agente Cine, 18 January. Interview conducted at Transcinema, Lima, in December 2017. 

2018 — Schulting, Guus. “Niles Atallah over Rey.” Filmkrant, 22 August. Dutch-language interview on historical ambiguity, archives, colonial representation and the material treatment of film. 

2018 — “Niles Atallah – Rey.” Interview manuscript prepared for the HOME UK booklet. Extended English-language Q&A preserved in a document dated 1 February; final publication details not established. 

2018 — “Niles Atallah y ‘Rey’: ‘De alguna manera mágica, la consciencia de Orélie Antoine se plasmó en el celuloide’.” Zoomback. Extended interview on the film’s historical research, archives and material experimentation. 

2018 — Marín, Pablo. “El Rey de la Araucanía vuelve al cine.” La Tercera / Culto, 8 January. Reported interview on Rey and its historical interpretation; republished by Patagonia Ambiental on 10 January as “El Rey de la Araucanía y Patagonia vuelve al cine.” 

2018 — Álvarez Pardo, Bastián. “Es difícil hacer películas en Chile, pero está el apoyo de una gran comunidad cinematográfica.” El Día, Magazine, 14 January, pp. 39–40. Interview with Niles Atallah about Rey, its research and independent filmmaking. 

2018 — Gárate M., Francisca. “Niles Atallah, director de ‘Rey’: ‘Me identifico mucho con Orellie Antoine’.” El Mercurio de Valparaíso, Cultura, 13 January, p. 38. Interview following the film’s presentation at Teatro Condell. 

2018 — Ochoa Mardones, Héctor. “Me parece que Orélie Antoine de Tounens era una especie de artista sin querer serlo.” El Austral de la Araucanía, Espectáculos, 13 January, p. 30. Telephone interview with Niles Atallah about Rey. 

2018 — Bahamondes Ch., Pedro. “Revisitando el Wallmapu: la nueva impronta mapuche en la escena local.” La Tercera, 27 January. Cultural report quoting Atallah on Rey, historical representation and colonial imagery. 

2017 — Screen staff. “IFFR Tiger directors: Niles Atallah, ‘Rey’.” Screen Daily, 29 January. Interview accompanying the film’s Rotterdam Tiger Competition presentation. 

2017 — Cox, Rita. “Niles Atallah.” Paula, no. 1242, 30 December; published online by La Tercera on 28 December. Profile and interview on Rey and Atallah’s artistic practice. 

2017 — Reynaldos Quinteros, Antonio. “Niles Atallah, triunfador en Rotterdam: ‘Nunca conseguí fondo alguno. La cinta fue totalmente ignorada en Chile’.” El Mostrador, 6 February. Interview following Rey’s Rotterdam award, discussing production, funding and the film’s historical and aesthetic approach. 

2017 — Vargas Rojas, Vanessa. “Niles Atallah estrena en FICValdivia su película sobre el hombre que se declaró rey de Wallmapu.” El Desconcierto, 14 October. Extended Q&A on Rey, colonial history and cinematic experimentation. 

2017 — “El francés que quiso ser rey de la Patagonia (y casi lo logra).” Diario Río Negro, 24 March; also published by Los Andes as “El francés que fue ‘rey de la Patagonia’, revive en el cine,” 25 March. AFP interview-based report from Cinélatino, with Niles Atallah and Producer Lucie Kalmar. 

2017 — Hidalgo, Diego. “Niles Atallah lleva al Rey de la Araucanía a Rotterdam.” La Tercera, 24 January. Reported interview on the origins, development and Rotterdam presentation of Rey. 

2017 — Atallah, Niles. English-language interview responses on Rey. Archival Q&A manuscript, September. Discusses historical reconstruction, film materiality, funding and national cinema; interviewer and publication not identified. 

2017 — HOME Artist Film. “Niles Atallah Interview” / “Confronting the Unknowns: Niles Atallah on Rey.” Glasgow Film Theatre, 22 December 2017; expanded version, Filmhouse, 4 January 2018. Interview on historical uncertainty, material processes and masks; the two presentations are consolidated here. 

2017 — Atallah, Niles. “Entrevista SECA, Guatemala.” Archival interview responses, November. On formative film experiences, filmmaking and cinematic influences; publication details not established. 

2017 — Cox, Rita. “El cineasta que entierra y desentierra películas.” Paula, 29 December. Extended interview on Rey; portrait by Carolina Vargas. 

2017 — Correspondencias. “Versiones, materia, historia. Entrevista a Niles Atallah.” Correspondencias: cine y pensamiento, no. 1, Primavera 2017, “Cuerpos en tránsito,” May. Interview on Rey, archives, sound and cinematic form. 

c. 2017 — “Tiger #6: Rey – Niles Atallah.” International Film Festival Rotterdam. Interview-based profile on the film’s historical research, archival methods and production. 

2017 — Marambio, Fernando. “Director mantuvo enterrada película por dos años y luego la estrenó.” Las Últimas Noticias, Tiempo Libre, 14 October, p. 47. Interview/report on Rey’s FICValdivia presentation and film-stock experiments. 

2017 — Núñez Escobar, Daniel, and Gonzalo Valdivia Utreras. “Los 20 personajes del año del cine chileno.” Zoomback, December. Year-end profile selection including Niles Atallah and Rey. 

2017 — Flores, Evelin. “Une promenade par l’univers onirique du ‘Rey’ de Niles Atallah.” Fréquences Latines, 15 April. Interview on the film’s historical research and artistic process. 

2011 — Estévez, Antonella, and Patricio López. “Entrevista a Niles Atallah, director de Lucía.” Cinechile, 10 August. In-depth interview on the feature and its creative process. Transcription: Francisca Valdebenito. 

2011 — Ramírez Carrasco, Gustavo E. “Cine expandido: Lucía y el bosque de cristal, una videoinstalación de Niles Atallah.” Cineteca Nacional de México, 20 April; interview conducted 4 April. Conversation on the feature, installation, sound and filmmaking practice. 

2011 — Jans, Emma. “Interview Coup de Cœur Niles Atallah.” Le Blog de La Película / Cinélatino, 20 March. Interview about Lucía, with audiovisual material on the feature and animated shorts. 

2010 — Vásquez, Felipe. “Director de ‘Lucía’ prepara cinta sobre ‘monarca’ de la Araucanía.” Emol, 18 October. Valdivia interview on Lucía’s origins, its central house and San Sebastián reception, and the early development of Rey. 

2010 — “Película chilena Lucía debuta hoy en el festival.” La Tercera, 20 September. Release profile with Atallah’s comments on the film’s production and San Sebastián premiere. 

2022 — Animation Obsessive. “How They Animated ‘The Wolf House’.” 3 October. Interview and craft analysis concerning León and Cociña, with discussion of their early collaboration with Atallah. 

2021 — Herrera, Francisca. “Bestia: un cortometraje que va más allá de la historia que todos conocemos.” Solomonos Magazine, 29 July. Interview with Hugo Covarrubias, including Atallah’s Image Post-Production work. 

2020 — Poblete Pardo, Nicolás. “«Preguntas frecuentes» en el GAM: El teatro de Nona Fernández y su crítico retrato de la vida en cuarentena.” Cine y Literatura, 28 July. Interview with Fernández, identifying Atallah’s audiovisual contribution to the theater production. 

2020 — Herrera, Francisca. “Diluvio.” Solomonos Magazine, 18 May. Interview with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León about their collaborative practice with Atallah; updated online in 2021. 

2018 — Bogolasky, Galia. “Entrevista a los directores de película ‘La Casa Lobo’ León & Cociña.” Culturizarte, 9 November. Interview with Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña discussing their collaboration with Atallah on Lucía and Luis, Diluvio and the development of La casa lobo. 

2018 — Poli, Vincent. “La Casa Lobo: Interview with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León.” FIDMarseille, 29th edition. Published Q&A on the feature produced by Atallah, its origins in Lucía and Luis, and its production in museums and galleries. 

2018 — Mardones Rosa, Isabel. “La Casa Lobo: Esperado estreno mundial en la Berlinale.” Goethe-Institut Chile, February. Interview with Catalina Vergara; includes Diluvio and the Atallah–León–Cociña shorts. 

2026 — Ramos, Carlos. “Merrimundi.” IndieLisboa, Silvestre programme. Signed catalogue commentary on the film’s sensory, post-apocalyptic and puppet-animation imagery. 

2025 NuMu / Colección Engel — Artist and collection record. 

2024 Otra mirada: Casa Creativa Diluvio — Cinélatino, Toulouse — Institutional focus and catalogue coverage of the collective and its films. 

2023 — Feodoroff, Nicolas. “Vitanuova.” FIDMarseille, 34th edition. Signed programme essay on the film’s animated transformations and photochemical materiality; distinct from the interview on the same festival page. 

2018 — Raup, Jordan. “Neighboring Scenes Returns on February 28 with New Latin American Cinema.” Film Society of Lincoln Center, 31 January. Programme announcement including Rey’s U.S. premiere and filmmaker Q&A. 

2011 — Cineteca Nacional de México. “Arranca el 31 Foro Internacional de la Cineteca: Una ventana al mejor cine de vanguardia.” 7 April. Institutional announcement of Lucía as opening film and the Sala 7 installation. 

2010 — Eye for Film. “San Sebastian Film Festival 2010: Zabaltegi–New Directors.” 17 September 2010. Festival-strand catalogue including Lucía. 

2026 — Racięski, Bolesław. Latin American Filmmakers and European Film Funds: Refuse. Resist. Reframe. Routledge. Dedicated section: “Rey: The Disappearing Kingdom,” pp. 131–136. ISBN 9781032672311; DOI 10.4324/9781032672342. 

2026 — Muñoz Salamanca, Carlos. “El cine en los pliegues de la historia.” laFuga 29. Review of Lattanzi’s book; discusses Rey and Atallah’s appearance in Como me da la gana II. 

2025 — Lattanzi Vizzolini, M. Laura. El cine en los pliegues de la historia. Santiago: Ediciones Metales Pesados. ISBN 978-956-6426-04-2. Study of cinematic history and temporality including a sustained analysis of Rey. 

2025 — Brower Beltramin, Jorge. Review of Escrito por cineastas. Taller de Letras 77: 282–288. DOI: 10.7764/Tl.77.282-288. Discusses the volume including Atallah’s contribution. 

2025 — Ceresa Vaccaro, Constanza, and Catalina Donoso Pinto. “Archivos del futuro: violencia e imaginación material en tres filmes chilenos.” Chasqui 54(1): 155–172. Comparative study of Rey, Puchuncaví and Las cruces. The article gives sustained attention to Rey’s buried and organically degraded film material, treating the film stock and soil as active archival agents and relating this material transformation to colonial violence, landscape, memory and Atallah’s earlier visual-art experiments.

2025 — Alarcón, María Fernanda. “Las caras del rey. Un ensayo sobre la potencia del retrato en el cine.” Imagofagia 31: 219–245. Dedicated study of Rey. 

2025 — Gattás Vargas, Maia. “Ecos coloniales en el presente: paisajes y archivos audiovisuales de la Patagonia binacional.” Revista NUPEM 17(40), e2025002, 22 January. DOI: 10.33871/nupem.2025.17.40.8306. Comparative study of six films, including Rey, examining colonial archives, memory and representations of Patagonia. 

2024 — Saldarriaga Cardona, Julián David. “Abyección y metamorfosis en la estética del terror stop-motion en «La Casa Lobo».” Brumal 12(1): 105–128. DOI: 10.5565/rev/brumal.1105. Study of the León–Cociña feature produced by Atallah. 

2023 — Blanco, Felipe. “Escrito por cineastas.” laFuga 27. Includes a substantial discussion of Atallah’s “Un vehículo de luz”. 

2023 — González Rañilao, Dylan. Lo sensorial en la creación de filmes de Niles Atallah. Licenciatura thesis, Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, 37 pp. Advisor: Marco González Martínez. Dedicated study of Atallah’s sensory and material filmmaking practices. 

2023 — Pinto, Iván, and Carolina Urrutia. “Wallmapu in Contemporary Chilean Cinema: Struggles over Indigenous Land.” Film Quarterly 77(1): 56–65. DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.56. Includes Rey. 

2023 — Racięski, Bolesław. “Lost in the Stream: An Overview of Online Distribution of Latin American Films Co-funded by European Film Funds.” Kwartalnik Filmowy 124: 96–114. DOI: 10.36744/kf.1845. Quotes Atallah on distribution and discusses Lucía and Rey. 

2022 — Ferrari, Marcelo. “¿Qué es el cine?” Espacio Transdisciplina 1. DOI: 10.4206/retd.2022.n1-06. Critical response to Atallah’s ideas on cinema and his “El cine como vehículo mágico” lecture. 

2022 — Barraza, Vania. “Historia, cine y montaje en Rey (2017) de Niles Atallah.” In Estéticas del desajuste: Cine chileno 2010–2020, edited by Iván Pinto and Carolina Urrutia Neno, 179–198. Santiago: Metales Pesados. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2kqx05r.13. 

2022 — Merchant, Paul. Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005–2015. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Chapter 1 includes analysis of Lucía (2010). 

2022 — Alarcón, Fernanda. “Fantasías coloreadas de ayer y hoy. Apuntes sobre luces, colores y texturas en dos ficciones históricas latinoamericanas contemporáneas.” In Performances afectivas: Artes y modos de lo común en América Latina, edited by Irene Depetris Chauvin and Natalia Taccetta. Comparative chapter on Rey and El abrazo de la serpiente. 

2022 — Universidad del Desarrollo, Centro de Innovación Docente. “Una manera diferente de hacer Cine” [A Different Way of Making Films]. Published pedagogical case in Experiencias docentes innovadoras 2020–2021 en contexto de SARS-CoV-2, Centro de Innovación Docente, Universidad del Desarrollo, case 18, pp. 44–45. Responsible Instructor: Niles Atallah; Collaborating Instructor: Claudia Rojas Noce. Documents first-semester 2020 teaching. ISBN 978-956-374-060-8. 

2020 — Corro Penjean, Pablo. “Formas de creencia en el cine chileno.” Revista de Humanidades 41: 201–226, especially 217–220. Examines Rey within a study of belief, material images and Chilean cinema. 

2020 — Iturriaga, Jorge, and Iván Pinto. “Hacia una imagen-evento. El ‘estallido social’ visto por seis colectivos audiovisuales (Chile, octubre 2019).” Cine Documental 22, special issue. Discusses Atallah’s rotoscope workshop within Ojo Chile and the collective’s audiovisual practice. 

2020 — Aguirre, Lina X. “‘Las casas viejas crujen, crujen’: Espacios interiores y afectividad en la animación experimental chilena reciente.” In Animación: entre relatos y técnicas, edited by Jesús Alejandro Guzmán Ramírez, 27–44. Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano / Universidad de Caldas. Includes sections on Luis and Lucía. 

2019 — Kuc, Kamila. “Aesthetic Violence in the Anarchival Turn: On the Infinite Visions of History.” Found Footage Magazine, Special Issue #5: Dirty Movies & Second Hand Poetics, March 2019. Extended analysis of Rey alongside Filipa César’s Spell Reel and Kuc’s I Think You Should Come to America, examining the “anarchival turn,” archival and found-footage practices, colonial and long-term violence, oppression, and the political potential of degraded and recontextualized images.

2019 — Urrutia Neno, Carolina, and Ana Fernández. “Perturbaciones sonoras, resonancias visuales: reflexiones sobre el sonido en tres filmes experimentales.” Cuadernos de Música, Artes Visuales y Artes Escénicas 14(1): 65–83. DOI: 10.11144/javeriana.mavae14-1.psrv. Studies Lucía, Rey and La casa lobo; first published online in December 2018. 

2019 — Munjin Paiva, Vanja Milena. “La pensatividad del cine.” In Cuadernos de crítica 01: Un nuevo mapa latinoamericano, compiled by Marcelo Alderete and Cecilia Barrionuevo, 87–90. Mar del Plata / INCAA. Discusses Rey on p. 89; essay first published in El Agente Cine in 2017. 

2019 — Nocelli, Giuliana. “La emboscada en La casa lobo.” In Cuadernos de crítica 01: Un nuevo mapa latinoamericano, compiled by Marcelo Alderete and Cecilia Barrionuevo, 83–85. Mar del Plata / INCAA. Discusses Diluvio, Lucía, Luis and La casa lobo. 

2018 — Aravena, Claudia, and Iván Pinto. Visiones laterales. Cine y video experimental en Chile (1957–2017). Santiago: Metales Pesados. Includes Lucía, the animated short co-directed by Atallah, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. 

2017 — Estévez, Antonella. Una gramática de la melancolía cinematográfica. Santiago: Ediciones Radio Universidad de Chile. Book-length research examining Lucía (2010) alongside three other Chilean features. 

2017 — Leiva, Fanny, and Enrique Núñez. “Animación: Más allá del Oso, eso no es todo amigos.” In VI Panorama del Audiovisual Chileno, edited by Johanna Whittle and Enrique Núñez, 139–145. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Discusses Diluvio and Atallah’s shorts and features. 

2016 — Dittus, Rubén. “El personaje brechtiano en el novísimo cine chileno: Análisis de los filmes Gatos Viejos, Lucía y El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia.” Perspectivas de la Comunicación 9(2): 59–70. 

c. 2016 — Baus, Martín. “La ley del desajuste: Decalaje, emancipación y reverberancias del sonido en el cine Chileno.” Campo Contra Campo. Extended essay with a dedicated section on sound, space and time in Lucía. 

2014 — Aguirre, Lina. “Animación stop-motion en Chile globalizado: correspondencias cinematográficas de lo precario.” El ojo que piensa. Revista de cine iberoamericano 10. DOI: 10.32870/elojoquepiensa.v0i10.190. Study of the experimental stop-motion work of Atallah, Cociña and León. 

2012 — Sifianos, Georges. Esthétique du cinéma d’animation. Paris: Éditions du Cerf; Condé-sur-Noireau: Corlet, collection “7e art,” no. 143. Discusses the animated work of Diluvio, including Lucía (2007). ISBN 978-2-204-09838-0. 

2012 — Campos Rabadán, Minerva. “Reconfiguración de flujos en el circuito internacional de festivales: el programa Cine en Construcción.” Secuencias 35: 84–102. Includes Lucía in an analysis of development programmes and international festival circulation. 

2010 — Jacobsen, Udo. “Niles Atallah. Representaciones liminares.” In El novísimo cine chileno, edited by Ascanio Cavallo and Gonzalo Maza. Santiago: Uqbar. Dedicated critical essay on Atallah’s work. 

2026 — al-Sharif, Basma. “Undercurrents 9 — Swan Songs.” Courtisane Festival programme essay. Discusses Merrimundi in relation to Morgenkreis and Slet 1988. 

2026 — Equipo Culto. “Obras de Niles Atallah y León & Cociña se reúnen en una exposición de video.” La Tercera, 17 August. Utopía retorcida exhibition report. 

2026 — Julio, Tatiana. “Utopía retorcida: un mundo perturbadoramente reconocible.” Mediales.art, 28 August. Discusses Merrimundi, wawawall and the material works in the Arrayán Espacio exhibition. 

2026 — El Ciudadano. “‘Aqua Vitae’: Niles Atallah inaugura exposición fotográfica en Casa Fósfora este viernes 5 de junio.” 5 June. Report on the exhibition, Taller Espora and Casa Fósfora. 

2025 — Meza, María Eugenia. “De fantasmas y monstruos nacionales.” Revista Primer Plano, 27 May. Comparative essay including Animalia Paradoxa. 

2025 — Navarro, AJ. “‘Animalia Paradoxa’, un cuento de hadas posmoderno sobre la capacidad de soñar.” La Crónica de Hoy, 3 January. Review of Animalia Paradoxa. 

2024 — Sofuoğlu, Öykü. “Animalia Paradoxa — Niles Atallah [Fantasia Fest ’24 Review].” In Review Online, 31 July. 

2024 — Depolo, Octavia. “Animalia Paradoxa: Futuros lacrimógenos.” laFuga 28. Review linking the film’s ruined spaces, performance, handmade animation and political imagination. 

2024 — Pérez, Ángel. “Animalia paradoxa, de Niles Atallah: una película anfibia.” Rialta, 13 August. 

2024 — Kush, Nick. “Fantasia Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘Animalia Paradoxa’.” MovieBabble, 3 August. 

2024 — Gray, Carmen. “Animalia Paradoxa.” The Film Verdict, 31 January. Rotterdam review of the feature. 

2024 — Chaw, Walter. “Fantasia Festival ’24: Kryptic; The Beast Within; Vulcanizadora; Animalia Paradoxa.” Film Freak Central, 30 July. Festival review article with a dedicated section on Animalia Paradoxa. 

2024 — Sawin, Chris. “Fantasia Film Festival 2024 ‘Animalia Paradoxa’ Review – Swim Against the Apocalypse.” Bounding Into Comics, 24 July. Review of the feature. 

2024 — Vargas, Sofía. “Animalia Paradoxa | Crítica: un viaje visual e incierto.” Te Invito al Cine, 5 December. Review accompanying the Chilean theatrical release. 

2024 — Wishloff, Thomas. “Fantasia 2024: Our Review of ‘Animalia Paradoxa’.” In The Seats, 22 July. 

2024 — Brannan, Alex. “Review: Animalia Paradoxa — Fantasia Festival 2024.” CineFiles Movie Reviews, 21 July. Discusses the film alongside Diluvio’s experimental cinema. 

2024 — Wassberg, Tim. “Fest Track on Sirk TV Film Review: Animalia Paradoxa.” SirkTV / The Inside Reel, 21 July. Fantasia International Film Festival review. 

2024 — Gilliland, Scott. “Animalia Paradoxa – Fantasia Fest 2024.” Upcoming On Screen, 25 July. 

2023 — Lattimer, James. “Tous les cinémas: FIDMarseille 2023.” Film Comment. Festival report including Vitanuova. 

2023 — Rizov, Vadim. “At Least 18 Filmmakers Withdraw from IDFA 2023.” Filmmaker Magazine, 15 November. Reports and quotes Atallah’s Palestine-solidarity statement and decision not to pitch at IDFA Forum. 

2021 — mysterycat23. “Invasion Narratives – Rey (2017) / Walker (1987).” Eclectic Ramblings, 7 May. Comparative essay on colonial narratives and cinematic form. 

2020 — CinemaChile. “La vanguardia como lugar de resistencia: el cine de Niles Atallah” / “The Cinema of Niles Atallah.” Career essay drawing on a 2017 interview. 

2020 — Lattanzi, Laura. “Conversatorio Colectivos Audiovisuales de la Revuelta.” laFuga 24. Includes Nayra Ilic García’s account of Atallah’s rotoscope-animation workshop and its influence within Ojo Chile. 

2019 — Bluth, Johannes. “Historischer Experimentalfilm ‘Rey’: Die Körnung des Königlichen.” taz, 3 January. German-language review of Rey’s material and historical experimentation. 

2019 — Corinth, Ernst. “‘Rey’: Der Mann, der König von Chile war.” RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND), 1 January. German-language release review. 

2019 — Aguilar, Alonso. “Aesthethic Colonization: The Cultural Battle Within Latin America’s Arthouse Cinema.” Photogénie / Cinea, 6 December. Essay comparing Rey with Zama, Jauja and other Latin American films. 

2018 — Romney, Jonathan. “Film of the Week: Rey.” Film Comment, 2 March. 

2018 — Fernández, Ana. “Rey. El reino de Orélie Antoine de Tounens.” laFuga 21. Review of historical representation, colonialism and the film’s experimental form. 

2018 — Estévez, Antonella. “La casa lobo: La perversión cuadro a cuadro.” Radio Universidad de Chile, 4 November. Film directed by León and Cociña; Atallah’s contribution was production and Image Post-Production. 

2018 — De los Ríos Escobar, Valeria. “Cine chileno contemporáneo: Cartografía provisoria para un campo en expansión.” Revista Icónica, 17 December. Essay including Lucía and Rey; also published in English as “Contemporary Chilean Cinema: A Provisional Cartography of an Expanding Field” in Senses of Cinema. The two versions are one essay. 

2018 — Morales Lastra, Enrique. “Rey: Narraciones extraordinarias.” Cine y Literatura, 4 February. 

2018 — Estévez, Antonella. “Rey: El monarca alucinado.” Diario y Radio Universidad de Chile, 8 January; also republished by Cinechile. 

2018 — Clarke, Cath. “Rey review – dreamlike drama about a man who would be king.” The Guardian, 5 January; print edition, p. 21. Online and newspaper versions of the same review. 

2018 — Rovers, Ronald. “Rey: Van koningen, de dingen die voorbijgaan.” Filmkrant, 15 August. Dutch-language review; distinct from Guus Schulting’s interview. 

2018 — Mosciatti, Ezio. “‘Rey’, o cómo llenar los ojos y oídos de cine.” BioBioChile, 5 January. Extended review of the film’s historical, visual, sonic and symbolic construction. 

2018 — Rapold, Nicolas. “Rey.” Film Comment, March–April, Currents. Review comparing the film with Lucrecia Martel’s Zama. 

2018 — Bittencourt, Ela. “From Prose of Life to Poetic Visions: Neighboring Scenes 2018.” Notebook / MUBI, 28 February. Includes Rey and its relationship to Zama and Latin American cinematic representations of colonialism. 

2018 — Álvarez Ríos, Francisco. “Tríptico: ‘Rey’ de Niles Atallah.” godart, 8 January. Three-part critical essay on the feature. 

2018 — “Rey.” Filmes do Chico; republished in Blog de Filmes, 19 June. Portuguese-language review; the saved English translation is the same article. 

2018 — Pobre Diletante. “Rey (Niles Atallah, 2017).” Pobre Diletante, 15 January. Review headed “Avant-garde para principiantes.” 

2018 — Haddad, Naief. “Em espécie de alucinação, ‘Rei’ faz exercício experimental de beleza notável.” Folha de S.Paulo, Ilustrada, 21 June. Review accompanying the Brazilian release; Portuguese original and saved English translation are one text. 

2018 — fílmicas. “Las mejores películas latinoamericanas de 2017.” 3 January. Year-end selection with a short review of Rey, ranked third. 

2018 — Concannon, Philip. “Rey.” Phil on Film, 15 January. Review of the feature. 

2018 — “Película ‘Rey’ se estrena hoy en Concepción.” El Sur, Espectáculos, 18 January, p. 23. Brief announcing the Universidad de Concepción screening. 

2018 — Mosciatti, Ezio. “Récord de estrenos chilenos: ‘Rey’, ‘Salamandra’ y ‘Sapo’ debutaron hoy en salas.” BioBioChile, 11 January. Release overview with a dedicated discussion of Rey. Posted by Emilio Contreras. 

2018 — Ochoa Mardones, Héctor. “Estrenan película sobre Orélie Antoine de Tounens, el Rey de La Araucanía.” El Austral de la Araucanía, Espectáculos, 10 January, p. 27. Report announcing the film’s Temuco release. 

2018 — El Desconcierto. “Llega a salas alabada película chilena que se sumerge en la historia del Rey de La Araucanía.” 3 January. Release report on Rey. 

2018 — Marín-Naritelli, Francisco. “Rey hay uno solo: Rey pájaro, Rey tierra, Rey agua.” Cine y Literatura, 11 January. Review of Rey. 

2018 — Poblete, Joel. “Riesgos, aciertos y experimentaciones.” Publimetro Chile, 10 January. New-release column with a critical assessment of Rey and a reference to Lucía. 

2018 — Grijalba Gomez, Jaime. “The 10 Best Chilean Films of 2017.” ScreenAnarchy, 8 January. Year-end selection ranking Rey second, with a short review. 

c. 2018 — Looker, Matt. “Rey.” Total Film. Short review of the feature. 

2018 — Hall, Lukas. “Theatrum Mundi: Colonial Farce and the Task of Indigenization in Niles Atallah’s Rey.” The Courtauldian, 31 January. Extended critical essay on the feature. 

2018 — A. S. “Rey (2017).” Filmuforia, 3 January. Review discussing the film alongside Eraserhead, Aguirre and Zama. 

2018 — Serjent, Colin. “Rey (12).” Nerve Magazine, 12 January. Review of the Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool, presentation. 

2018 — McGill, Hannah. “Rey.” Sight & Sound, February, pp. 71–72. Review of the feature. 

2018 — Oyarzún, Héctor. “Rey (1): Colonialismo sicodélico.” El Agente Cine, 18 January. Review of the feature. 

2018 — Gonzalez Itier, Sebastian. “Rey (3): El juego de las máscaras.” El Agente Cine, 30 January. Review of the feature. 

2018 — Munjin, Vanja. “Rey (2): Materialismos pretéritos.” El Agente Cine, 24 January. Release review reconsidering the film’s materiality and historical indeterminacy. 

2017 — Azalbert, Nicolas. “Rey.” Cahiers du cinéma 738, November, p. 65. Cahier critique; full review preserved in the press archive. 

2017 — Choury, Thomas. “L’Aventurier de l’archive perdue.” Critikat, 28 November. Review of Rey. 

2017 — Delgado, Mónica. “Olhar de Cinema 2017: Rey de Niles Atallah.” Desistfilm. 

2017 — Piette, Jérémy. “Rey en terrain illuminé.” Libération, 28 November. 

2017 — Aguilar, Alonso. “El reino de un lenguaje perdido.” Mediapart, 22 March. Review of Rey. 

2017 — Weissberg, Jay. “Rotterdam Film Review: ‘King’.” Variety, 6 February. 

2017 — Herrera, Claudio. “Rey, de Niles Atallah.” Cinechile, 28 October. Review of the feature. 

2017 — Delgado, Mónica. “Olhar de Cinema 2017: Sobre la retrospectiva de F. W. Murnau.” Desistfilm, 25 June. Festival essay documenting Atallah’s participation in a panel on Murnau’s influence on contemporary cinema. 

2017 — Colantonio, Guillermo. “Festival de Rotterdam: Rey (2017), de Niles Atallah” / “Crítica: Rey (2017), de Niles Atallah.” CineramaPlus, 8 February; later version dated 14 November. One review under two successive headlines. 

2017 — Castellano, Pablo. “Rey (Niles Atallah).” Cine maldito, 28 November. 

2017 — The Clinic. “Llega a Chile la cinta ‘Rey’ de Niles Atallah.” 19 December. Chilean theatrical-release report. 

c. 2017 — Deruisseau, Bruno. Review of Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie. Les Inrockuptibles. French-release review indexed by AlloCiné; publication year inferred from the French release. 

c. 2017 — Chèze, Thierry. Review of Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie. Studio Ciné Live. French-release review indexed by AlloCiné; publication year inferred from the French release. 

c. 2017 — Schaller, Nicolas. Review of Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie. L’Obs. French-release review indexed by AlloCiné; publication year inferred from the French release. 

2017 — Garay, Rodrigo. “Rey de Niles Atallah: Los renglones torcidos de la Araucanía.” F.I.L.M.E., 26 June. Review of Rey. 

2017 — Mena, César. “CRFIC-2017. Rey.” Krinegrafo, 10 December. Costa Rica festival review. 

2017 — Moseguí, Carlota. “Rotterdam 2017: Premios y críticas de la Competencia.” Otros Cines, 3 February. Competition report and review of Rey. The Rey discussion was republished as “La fantasía mitológica de Nilles Atallah conquista Rotterdam,” Otros Cines Europa, 4 February. 

2017 — Negrete, JJ. “FICUNAM | ‘Rey’: Rayones en la historia.” Butaca Ancha, 24 February. Review of Rey, with discussion of Lucía. 

2017 — Koza, Roger. “FICUNAM 2017 (02): Rey.” Con los ojos abiertos, 3 February. Review on historical representation, political dispossession and the film’s visual form. 

2017 — “Crítica de la película chilena Rey del director Niles Atallah.” Cinestel, 9 February. Review of Rey. 

2017 — Oggiano, Roberto. “Rey: The lost kingdom.” Cineuropa, 3 February. Rotterdam review; English translation from Italian. 

c. 2017 — Bardot, Nicolas. “Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie.” FilmDeCulte. French-release review. 

2017 — Rodríguez, Carlos. “Rey.” Revista Icónica, 29 June. Review of the film’s treatment of history and memory. 

c. 2017 — Silva Martínez, Marco A. “Rey de La Nueva Francia en Sudamérica.” Xpresat: Tu Revista Digital. Review of Rey. 

2017 — “Pueblo Mapuche en el Cine: Dos películas ganan premios en festival en Francia.” Radio del Mar, 28 March. Toulouse awards report including Rey and Mala junta. 

2017 — Aouad, Amanda. “Rey.” CinePipocaCult, 16 June. Review from Olhar de Cinema. 

2017 — F. L. “Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie.” Chacun Cherche Son Film, 27 November. French-release review. 

2017 — Grijalba, Jaime. “Olhar de Cinema Film Festival 2017: Rey, Soldado, Tonsler Park, All the Cities of the North, A Quiet Dream, & More.” Slant Magazine, 28 June. Festival report with a substantial review of Rey. 

2017 — Maestro, Miguel. “Rey (Niles Atallah, 2017).” Nos hacemos un cine, 8 February. Review of the feature. 

2017 — Martínez, Mariana. “Otras historias son posibles.” Miradas Múltiples, 20 June. Review of Rey. 

2017 — York, Keva. “Going Underground: Celluloid in the Digital Age.” MIFF Blog, Melbourne International Film Festival, 12 August. Comparative essay on Rey and Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time. 

c. 2017 — Watson, Grant. “Rey (MIFF).” FilmInk. Review from the Melbourne International Film Festival. 

2017 — Crítico Revius. “Rey (2017).” REVIUS, 18 October. Review of the feature. 

2017 — Garcia, Fernand. “Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie – Niles Atallah.” KinoScript, 11 December. Review of the feature. 

2017 — Russo, Juan Pablo. “Un rey para la Patagonia.” EscribiendoCine, 15 November. Review of Rey. 

2017 — Evans, James B. “Rey.” Electric Sheep, 22 March. Rotterdam review. 

2017 — Koger Roza. “La columna de Koger Roza: El hielo y el infierno.” Con los ojos abiertos, 7 November. Comparative essay discussing Rey alongside films by Bill Morrison, João Moreira Salles and Ignacio Agüero. 

2017 — Guilhem, Rafael. “La historia física de las imágenes: Rey (2017) de Niles Atallah.” Correspondencias: cine y pensamiento, no. 0, Invierno 2017, “Políticas del cine.” Review of the feature. 

2017 — Galván, Luis Fernando. “Rey.” EnFilme, 13 June. Review of the feature. 

2017 — Fireman, Chico. “Olhar de Cinema 2017.” Abraccine — Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema, 28 June. Festival essay including Rey. 

2017 — Aguilar, Alonso, and César Mena. “Filmes destacados del 2017.” Krinegrafo, 31 December. Year-end critical selections including Rey. 

c. 2017 — “Rey: La apuesta experimental de Niles Atallah tiene fecha de estreno.” Zoomback. Chilean theatrical-release announcement. 

2017 — López, María Graciela. “Estrenan película sobre Orllie-Antoine de Tounens, el desconocido ‘Rey de la Araucanía’.” BioBioChile, 25 December. Chilean-release report. 

2017 — El Mostrador Cultura+Ciudad. “Película chilena se sumerge en la historia del Rey de La Araucanía.” El Mostrador, 13 December. Release report and trailer presentation. 

2017 — El Otro Cine. “‘Rey’ (2017) de Niles Atallah, cinta chilena sobre la historia del Rey de La Araucanía llega a los cines.” 12 December. Release report and official-trailer presentation. 

2017 — “The Forgotten Kingdom of Rey – Rey (Film Review).” Close-Up Culture, 29 December. Review of the feature. 

2017 — Águila, Marisol. “Informe I FECIRA: La(s) familia(s) y sus vínculos disparejos.” El Agente Cine, 7 November. Festival report mentioning Rey in FECIRA’s programme. 

2017 — Munjin, Vanja. “Informe VII FICUNAM (1): Fragilidades expuestas. Lo histórico, lo marginal y lo poético como lugares de experimentación cinematográfica.” El Agente Cine, 13 March. Festival report with an extended discussion of Rey. 

2017 — Oyarzún, Héctor. “Informe XXIV FicValdivia (2): De historia, política, amor y cinefilia.” El Agente Cine, 24 October. Festival essay comparing the historical representation in Rey and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama. 

2017 — Gutiérrez, José Hernán. “Informe XXIV FicValdivia (3): De tierras robadas y viejos maestros.” El Agente Cine, 27 October. Festival essay discussing Rey’s colonial history and material experimentation. 

c. 2017 — Bardot, Nicolas. “Les 15 films de novembre.” FilmDeCulte. Monthly release round-up including Rey. 

2017 — Di Salvatore, Giuseppe. “Rey.” Filmexplorer, 10 November. Italian-language review, published during GIFF and FILMAR en América Latina in Geneva. 

c. 2016 — Baus, Martín. “Lucía.” Campo Contra Campo: Ficción y política en el cine chileno. Review of the feature’s domestic space, urban transformation, image fragmentation and political memory. 

2015 — Sattler Jiménez, Nancy. “Creación musical chilena.” Revista Musical Chilena 69(223). DOI: 10.4067/S0716-27902015000100018. Performance chronicle documenting Atallah’s animation contribution to Anticantata. 

2015 — “Entrevista a Vania Barraza.” Revista Planeo, 13 January. Interview with the film scholar, including sustained discussion of Lucía, gender, urban redevelopment and historical memory; not an interview with Atallah. 

2015 — “Museo Histórico Maurice Van de Maele fue locación de la nueva película de Niles Atallah.” Dirección Museológica, Universidad Austral de Chile, October. Production report on the recording of Rey’s music with Sebastián Jatz Rawicz. 

2015 — Navarrete Alvear, Daniel. “En Valdivia graban música para la película ‘Rey’ de Niles Atallah.” El Austral de Los Ríos, Espectáculos, 26 October, p. 26. Report on the soundtrack’s recording with Sebastián Jatz Rawicz. 

2013 — Pinto, Iván. Curatorial text on Diluvio, in “Visiones Laterales #3: Diluvio (Atallah, León y Cociña) + Juan Pablo Langlois.” laFuga / Cineteca Nacional de Chile. 

2013 — Herrera, Cinthia, and Nicole Trejo. “Cine, Ciudad y Memoria: Entrevista a Christian Ramírez.” 35 Milímetros, 8 May. Interview with the critic, including an extended discussion of Lucía’s domestic space and the representation of Santiago. Drawn from a 2012 Universidad de Chile research project. 

2013 — Acosta, Cesar. “Niles Atallah participa en Festival de Cannes con proyecto sobre ‘Rey de la Araucanía’.” BioBioChile, 24 May. Development report with Atallah’s comments on Rey during Cannes L’Atelier. 

2013 — Aguilera R., Carlos. “Película chilena ‘Rey’ fue seleccionada para el Atelier de Cannes 2013.” El Mercurio, Espectáculos, 5 March, p. C15. Project-development report with Atallah’s comments. 

2011 — Bernal, Fernando. “Lucía.” Cahiers du cinéma España, no. 49, October; Festival Simultáneo de Cine 4+1 dossier. 

2011 — Estévez, Antonella. “Lucía, de Niles Atallah.” Cinechile, 5 August. 

2011 — Batlle, Diego. “Guía y reseñas de un festival inusual.” Otros Cines, October. Festival 4+1 report including a short signed review of Lucía. 

2011 — Reyes León, Daniel. Essay on Lucía, Luis y el lobo. Reproduced in Fundación PROA’s Art in the Auditorium III online exhibition publication. Analysis of the Galería Animal installation, its spatial construction, stop motion and sound. 

2011 — Olivares, Juan José. “El foro de la Cineteca, ‘ventana al cine alternativo de calidad’.” La Jornada, 12 April, p. 9. Report on Lucía opening the 31st Foro and the Lucía y el bosque de cristal installation. 

c. 2011 — El País (Montevideo, Uruguay). “Otra visión de América fue premiada en Francia.” Espectáculos, c. March. Toulouse awards coverage; saved-page masthead dated 29 March. 

2011 — Filmkrant. “Chileense wederopstanding,” in “Evenementen (Focus) – 30 juni 2011.” 30 June. Programme report documenting Lucía in EYE’s Cinema Chile season. 

2010 — Blanco, Felipe. “Lucía.” laFuga 11. Review of the feature’s visual construction, domestic space and relationship to memory. 

2010 — Adams, Mark. “Lucia.” Screen Daily, 22 September 2010. Review of the feature. 

2010 — Deia. “Quince películas de 17 países participarán en la sección Zabaltegi del Zinemaldia.” 10 August 2010, pp. 50–51. Festival-selection report and film profiles. 

2010 — EFE. “Quince filmes de 17 países competirán en Zabaltegi–Nuevos Directores.” Diario de Noticias, 10 August 2010, p. 55. Festival-selection report. 

2010 — EFE. “Dos óperas primas españolas en Zabaltegi–Nuevos Directores.” Noticias de Álava, 10 August 2010, p. 54. Festival-selection report including Lucía. 

2010 — Noticias de Gipuzkoa. “Quince películas de 17 países optan al premio Nuevos Directores del Zinemaldia.” 10 August 2010, p. 50. Festival-selection coverage including Lucía. 

2010 — Guerrero, Carolina G. “Arranca el Festival de San Sebastián con seis películas iberoamericanas a concurso.” NOTICINE.com, 16 September 2010. Festival preview including Lucía.