Short films

Lucía — animated short

2007

Stop-motion short, 3 minutes 50 seconds; frame-by-frame digital photographs. Part 1 of Lucía, Luis y el lobo.  

Co-Written and Co-Directed by Niles Atallah, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. Cinematography, Editing, Art Direction, Animation, Sound Design, Image Post-Production and Colorist credits shared by all three. Production: Diluvio. Voice: Paula Florencia Navarrete. Art Direction Assistance: Natalia Geisse. 

Awards and distinctions

2010 Court-Bouillon, France — Grand Prix and Audience Award.

2010 Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria — ASIFA Austria Award and Audience Award, International Competition Animation Avantgarde. 

2010 Disposable Film Festival, San Francisco, United States — Grand Jury Prize. 

2009 Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia — Grand Prix Wooden Wolf Prize. 

2009 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival — Special Jury Prize.

2009 Fantoche, Baden, Switzerland — First Prize / Best International Film. 

2009 FIBABC, Madrid, Spain — Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film. 

2009 16th FICValdivia, Chile — Special Jury Mention. 

2008 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany — Literaturwerkstatt Berlin Prize. 

2008 Fair Play Film and Video Award Festival, Lugano, Switzerland — Second Place Award. 

Festivals and screenings

2008 Discovering Latin America, London, United Kingdom — Festival selection. 

2008 Fair Play Film and Video Award Festival, Lugano, Switzerland — Competition / second prize. 

2008 Interfilm, Berlin, Germany — International short-film festival. 

2008 Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, Cuba — Festival selection. 

2008 Product Festival of Contemporary Art, Varna, Bulgaria — Art / moving-image festival. 

2008 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany — Poetry-film competition / award. 

2009 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival — Lab Competition.

2009 16th FICValdivia, Chile — Short-film selection / jury mention. 

2009 Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia — Animation festival / award. 

2009 Fantoche, Baden, Switzerland — International Competition. 

2009 FIBABC, Madrid, Spain — Short-film competition / award. 

2009 European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany — Festival selection. 

2009 Breda International Film Festival, Breda, Netherlands — Festival selection. 

2010 ANIMAC, Lleida, Spain — Muestra Internacional de Cine de Animación de Cataluña. 

2010 Cannes Short Film Corner, France — Short Film Corner — market presentation. 

2010 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Festival screening. 

2010 Court-Bouillon, France — Festival selection; awards recorded above.

2010 Disposable Film Festival, San Francisco, United States — Festival selection; Grand Jury Prize. 

2010 Offscreen / Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium — Festival presentation. 

2010 Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland — Festival selection. 

2010 Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria — Animation Avantgarde competition; awards recorded above. 

2012 Premiers Plans, Angers, France — 7 en Région; joint presentation, Lucía + Luis. 

2013 Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago — Visiones Laterales #3: Diluvio, presented by laFuga. 

2017 Transcinema, Lima, Peru — Niles Atallah retrospective. 

2018 FICValdivia, Chile — Muestra Especial 25° Aniversario; Lucía and Luis. 

2020 Play FICValdivia, Chile — Online Niles Atallah focus. 

2022 Corriente, Arequipa, Peru — Continentes fílmicos: Fantasmagorías precipitadas. 

2024 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Otra mirada: Casa Creativa Diluvio. 

2024 Centro Arte Alameda, Santiago, Chile — Diluvio short-film retrospective, December. 

2025 CINETORO, Roldanillo, Colombia — ¿Lo que suena vive?; screening at INTEP. 

Exhibitions

c. 2007–2008 Sewn / Sewn + In/Out China — East Asia Contemporary, Shanghai, China. 

2007 Kunsthalle Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany. 

2007 Romance — Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile. 

2008 Illustrative 08, Zürich, Switzerland. 

2008 After the Light — Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany.

2008 arteBA, Feria Internacional de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

2008 Estéticas del Desastre — Magatzems Wall Vídeo, Valencia, Spain. 

2009 7ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 

2009 Illustrative 09, Berlin, Germany.

2009 Beijing 798 Art Biennale, Beijing, China. 

2009 Inverosímil — Galería Vértice, Lima, Peru.

2009 Comunidad Ficticia — Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.

2009 Lucía, Luis y el lobo — Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile. 

2010 Grand Slam: Dopplergruppen — Büro Adalbert, Berlin, Germany.

2010 CHACO Contemporary Art Fair, Santiago, Chile.

2010 Upstream Cinema — Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2010 Lucía & Luis — Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil.

2011 Art in the Auditorium III — Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon — Lucía and Luis, with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. 

2011 Art in the Auditorium III — Ballroom Marfa / Crowley Theater, Marfa, Texas, United States — Lucía and Luis, with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. 

2011 Art in the Auditorium III — İstanbul Modern Sinema, Istanbul, Turkey — Lucía and Luis, with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. 

2011 Art in the Auditorium III — Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

2011 Art in the Auditorium — Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2011 Art in the Auditorium — City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.

2011 Art in the Auditorium — Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway.

2011 Art in the Auditorium — GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy.

2011 Art in the Auditorium — Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.

2011 Draw and Do Not Waste Time — Salon Akademii, Warsaw, Poland.

2020 Encierro, monstruos y fantasía — Museo Moderno en Casa, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Online presentation of Lucía and Luis, with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. 

Support

c. 2007 FONDART / Fondo de las Artes, Chile — Support for the Lucía, Luis y el lobo animated-film project.

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Lucía, Luis y el lobo — production photographs