Machuca
A film by Andrés Wood
Santiago during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante’s liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies.
Team
- Direction: Andrés Wood
- Script: Roberto Brodsky, Mamoun Hassan, Andrés Wood
- Image: Miguel J. Littin
- Sound: Marcos Maldasky
- Editing: Fernando Pardo
- Music: José Miguel Miranda, José Miguel Tobar
Casting
- Matías Quer
- Ariel Mateluna
- Manuela Martelli
- Aline Küppenheim
Production
- Wood Producciones (Chile)
- In coproduction with Tornasol Films S.A. (Spain), Chilefilms (Chile), Mamoun Hassan (UK) et Paraìso Production
Diffusion
- FESTIVALS
- Quinzaine des réalisateurs – Festival de Cannes
- Bogota International Film Festival (Colombie)
- Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong)
- Vilnius International Film Festival (Lituanie)
- Yakarta International Film Festival (Indonesie)
- Copenhagen International Film Festival (Danemark)
- Busan International Film Festival (Corée du sud)
- Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentine)
- Cleveland International Film Festival (USA)
- BAFICI (Argentine)
- Tapei International Film Festival (Taiwan)
- Seattle International Film Festival (USA)
- Adelaide Film Festival (Australie)
- Lima International Film Festival (Pérou)
- Valdivia International Film Festival (Chili)
- Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada)
- Vina del Mar International Film Festival (Chili)
- Festival pour éveiller les regards d’Aubervilliers
- AWARDS
- Mention spéciale du Prix François Chalais – Quinzaine des réalisateurs (Cannes)
- Prix du Public – Lima International Film Festival (Pérou)
- Meilleur Film – Valdivia International Film Festival (Chili)
- Meilleur Film International – Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada)
- Meilleur Film, Meilleur Réalisateur & Prix du Public – Vina del Mar International Film Festival (Chili)
- Prix du CICAE – Festival pour éveiller les regards (Aubervilliers)
- Grand prix du jury – Bogota International Film Festival (Colombie)
- DISTRIBUTION
- France distribution: Océan Films
- International sales: Latido films
- Theaters release in France : 2005 (Visa : 111001)
Trailer
