Tag: The Mole Agent
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Sundance Winner ‘The Eternal Memory,’ From ‘The Mole Agent’s’ Maite Alberdi, Smashes Box Office Records in Chile
“The Eternal Memory,” Chilean documentarian Maite Alberdi’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated “The Mole Agent,” is smashing box office records in Chile.Bowing Thursday Aug. 24 in 70 theaters and shooting straight to No. 1, “The Eternal Memory’s” first week 80,157 ticket sales gave the film the biggest bow of any doc feature in history in Chile…
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‘The Eternal Memory’ Trailer: Director Maite Alberdi Explores Chilean History & Trauma Through Memory & A Great Love
In 2017, we put a feature together on the burgeoning Chilean New Wave of cinema: Beyond Pablo Larraín: 6 Chilean Directors You Should Know. They included filmmakers you probably are very familiar with, including Sebastián Lelio and Sebastián Silva. But cut to six years later, if we updated it, there would be many more— many…
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Asif Kapadia, Maite Alberdi among Cph:Conference 2023 speakers
2023 conference has the theme ‘Future At Our Fingertips’.Diego Maradona director Asif Kapadia and The Mole Agent filmmaker Maite Alberdi are among the speakers for Cph:Conference, the industry talks programme of Cph:dox film festival in Copenhagen (March 15-26).Running from March 20-24, this year’s Conference programme has the theme ‘Future At Our Fingertips’, taking the changed…
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‘Amy,’ ‘Free Solo,’ ‘Mole Agent’ Filmmakers Among Speakers at Cph:dox Conference
Oscar winning filmmakers Asif Kapadia (“Amy”) and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (“Free Solo”), Oscar nominees Maite Alberdi (“The Mole Agent”) and Jessica Kingdon (“Ascension”), and Emmy nominee Jialing Zhang (“One Child Nation”) are among the lineup of speakers at Cph:conference, which runs during Cph:dox, Copenhagen’s documentary film festival.The discussion program, which runs under the banner “Future…
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‘I want to break cinema’: is Dick Johnson Is Dead the most radical film of 2020?
When film-maker Kirsten Johnson’s father developed dementia, she decided to make an unusual Netflix documentary that challenges our notions of realityWe’re living in boom times for non-fiction cinema, what may be one of the most creatively fertile periods in the history of the American documentary. Aside from the more obvious breakout hits, there’s a small…