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The inaugural year of Cine Chileno in San Francisco features a retrospective screening of the work of renowned Chilean producer/director Silvio Caiozzi, including his best works from 44 years of a career in film and television and the US premiere of …And Suddenly the Dawn, Chile’s submission to the foreign-language category at the 2019 Oscars. This film already won the Grand Prix of the Americas (Best Film) at the prestigious Montreal World Film Festival in 2017.
The daylong retrospective will feature 3 films, Julio comienza en julio (1979), La luna en el espejo (1990), and …Y de pronto el amanecer (2017), as well as award-winning episodes of Descorchando Chile (Cheers from Chile, 2010), a television series produced by Caiozzi.
You can purchase tickets to each individual film or you can acquire an All-Day Pass.
Tickets to pre-show cocktail reception with Silvio Caiozzi at The Castro Theatre’s mezzanine include the All-Day Pass and reserved seating to the feature film. Cocktail Reception Tickets.
FILM PROGRAM
1st. Film Screening
10:10am – doors open to ticket holders
10:30am – Descorchando Chile (Cheers from Chile)
Los Vinos del Desierto: Viña Casa Tamaya, Viñedos de Alcohuaz, Viña Cavas del Valle
11:05am – JULIO COMIENZA EN JULIO (Julio Begins in July, 1979)
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2nd. Film Screening
1:30pm – doors open to ticket holders
1:45pm – Descorchando Chile (Cheers from Chile)
Valles de Poesía: Viña Morandé
2:20pm – LA LUNA EN EL ESPEJO (The Moon in the Mirror, 1990)
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3rd. Film Screening
3:50pm – doors open to ticket holders
4:15pm – Three episodes of TV series Descorchando Chile (Cheers from Chile, 2010)
1.- VALLES DE MAR Y VINO: Viña Veramontes, Viña Garcés Silva, Viña Casanueva
2.- EL VALLE PREMIADO: Viña Caliterra, Viña Montes
3.- VALLE DE SORPRESAS: Viña Viu Manent, Viña Lapostole, Viña Los Nogales
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4th Film Screening
US PREMIERE
6:15pm – doors open to ticket holders
7:00pm – …Y DE PRONTO EL AMANECER (…And Suddenly the Dawn, 2017)
Screening followed by Q&A with Silvio Caiozzi
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Julio comienza en julio
(July begins in July)
1979
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At the turn of the 20th century, the well known landowner, Mr. Julio García del Castaño, is convinced that the end always justifies the means. He’s involved in a lawsuit with the Franciscan religious order, whose solution will stretch the limits of legality. At the same time, he orders the sexual initiation of his son and heir, Julio, in the typical fashion of the time. Julio, however, falls in love with the prostitute, Maria, and from then on has eyes only for her. This brings on the collapse of the empire forged by his family. B&W (Sepia)
AWARDS:
«Quinzaine des Realizateurs» Selection – Cannes International Film Festival, France (1979) · Best Film, Ibero-American Film Festival of Huelva, Spain (1979) · Critic Award, Ibero-American Film Festival of Huelva, Spain (1979) · Best Chilean Film , CineUC Film Festival, Chile (1979) · Official Selection, International Film Festival of Bangalore, India (1980) · Official Selection, International Film Festival of Tashkent, URSS (1980) · Best Film of the 20th Century, popular audience selection through El Mercurio newspaper and Santiago City Hall (1999).
La luna en el espejo
(The Moon in the Mirror)
1990
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In the mystical port of Valparaíso an old and sick marine, Don Arnaldo (Rafael Benavente), lives in close quarters with his son, who’s nickname is Gordo (Ernesto Beadle). From his bed the father controls his son’s every move in the small apartment through mirrors that strategically hang on his bedroom walls. His son is submissive and obedient. He longs for his freedom as much as he fears it. Guilt keeps him from admitting that deep down inside he wants his father to die. Lucrecia (Gloria Münchmeyer), slightly older than Gordo, is their widowed neighbor. Gordo and Lucrecia have feelings for each other; they flirt and fool around behind Don Arnaldo’s back. Lucrecia seduces “Gordo” and manages to get him out for a day on the Valparaíso bay. After several of these “acts of rebellion” Don Arnaldo plays his last card to regain control over his son.
AWARDS:
Nominated by Chilean Government for “Best Foreign Film”, OSCAR Awards, USA (1990) · Best Actress, International Film Festival of Venice, Italy (1990) · Best Film, International Film Festival of Trieste, Italy (1990) · Best Film, International Film Festival of La Habana, Cuba (1990) · Best Actor, International Film Festival La Habana, Cuba (1990) · Best Film Jury Special Award, International Film Festival of Valladolid, Spain (1990) · Best Film, Annual Award Show business Journalists, Chile (1990) · Best Director, Annual Award Show business Journalists, Chile (1990) · Best Director, International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (1991) · Best International Film, International Film Festival of Montevideo, Uruguay (1991) · Best Latin-American Film, International Film Festival of Montevideo, Uruguay (1991) · Best Film, International Film Festival of Cuzco, Peru (1991) · Best Film OCIC Award, International Film Festival of Amiens, France (1990) · Glauber Rocha Award, International Film Festival of Portugal (1991) · Best Film, Colibrí Award, International Film Festival of Vitoria, Brazil (1991).
...Y de pronto el amanecer
(…And Suddenly the Dawn)
2017
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Pancho Veloso (Julio Jung), an elderly writer of gossip-entertainment newspaper articles, living in the capital city of Santiago, returns to his childhood town in southernmost Chile, Chiloé, after having fled there over 40 years earlier. There he begins to write commercial, profit-making chronicles about the region commonly known as “the end of the world.” Upon facing his past he starts dropping his lifelong pretense.
AWARDS:
Grand Prix of the Americas (Best Film), The Montreal World Film Festival (2017).
Chile’s submission to the Best Foreign Language Film nomination at the 2019 Oscars.
Descorchando Chile (Cheers from Chile, 2010)
This award-winning television series, produced and directed by Silvio Caiozzi to commemorate Chile’s bicentennial celebrated in 2010. Hosted by British wine expert and television personality Olly Smith, it spotlights Chile’s exceptionally beautiful and diverse wine-producing regions, and chronicles each vineyard’s exceptional story.
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Cine Chileno in San Francisco is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
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