2010
Debut fiction feature, 80 minutes
Lucía
In Santiago in December 2006, seamstress Lucía lives with her unemployed and physically declining father, Luis. Their daily life shows how personal memory and the history of Chile’s dictatorship remain intertwined with the present.
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, FranceSaved copy — 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.
Festivals and screenings
2010 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Spain — Zabaltegi–New Directors; world premiere.
2010 Festival de Cine B 3, Santiago, Chile — Feature Film Competition.
2010 Festival de Cine de Antofagasta, Chile — Feature Film Competition.
2010 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, Cuba — Ópera Prima / debut feature competition.
2010 FICValdivia, Valdivia, Chile — National Feature Film Competition.
2010 Filmfest Hamburg, Germany — Vitrina.
2010 International Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia — Feature Film Competition.
2010 Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, Spain — Festival selection; 19 November, Cines Golem, with Niles Atallah present.
20 April 2011 31st Foro Internacional de Cine, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City — Opening film; separate from the commissioned installation.
2011 Cine Club, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile — University screening cycle.
2011 Cine Latino: Nuovi Film dall’America Latina, Bergamo, Italy — Festival selection.
March 2011 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Feature Film Competition; three awards.
March 2011 DIFF, Viña del Mar, Chile — Feature Film Competition; Honorary Mention.
2011 DIVA, Festival Internacional de Cine Diversidad, Valparaíso, Chile — Festival selection.
2011 Festival de Cine 4+1, Fundación MAPFRE — Multi-city presentation: Madrid, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.
2011 Festival de Cine B 4, Santiago, Chile — Presentation of winning films from Cine B 3.
2011 Festival de Cine Independiente de Iquique, Chile — Festival selection.
2011 16th Festivalíssimo, Montreal, Canada — Festival de Films Ibéro-Latinoaméricains.
2011 FILMAR en América Latina, Geneva, Switzerland — Festival selection.
2011 First Run Film Series, Brussels, Belgium — Screening series.
2011 Fünf Seen Film Festival, Germany — New International Film; Starnberg, Seefeld, Herrsching and Wörthsee.
2011 Gwangju International Film Festival, South Korea — Humanity Vision.
2011 II Mostra del Cinema IberoAmericano, Rome, Italy — Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
2011 Indie Festival, São Paulo, Brazil — Cine del Mundo.
2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands — Bright Future.
2011 Istanbul International Film Festival / İKSV, Turkey — Mined Zone.
2011 Katowice Ars, Poland — Panorama.
2011 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States — New Latin American Cinema.
June 2011 EYE Film Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands — Cinema Chile / Muestra de Cine Chileno; included in the 2–15 June programme.
January 2012 36th Festival Cine UC, Santiago, Chile — “Mejores películas chilenas 2011” programme.
February–March 2012 MUCA, Muestra de Cine Actual, Guatemala City, Guatemala — Festival screening.
March 2012 2nd FEMCINE, Festival de Cine de Mujeres, Santiago, Chile — “Ellas por Ellos” programme.
March 2012 30th Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay — Festival screening.
April 2012 2nd Atlántida Film Fest, Spain — Official Competition.
2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Spain — En Construcción: Diez años con el cine latinoamericano.
2012 Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia — University screening.
2013 BioBioCine, Concepción, Chile — Fiction Competition.
2016 12th Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey, Mexico — Chile Guest Country; 28 August, Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima.
2017 Transcinema, Lima, Peru — Niles Atallah retrospective.
2020 Play FICValdivia, Chile — Online Niles Atallah focus.
2024 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Otra mirada: Casa Creativa Diluvio; retrospective / focus.
2024 Centro Arte Alameda, Santiago, Chile — December Diluvio retrospective.
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.
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