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Special Circumstances
(73 minutes) Chile/USA
Director/Producer: Marianne Teleki
Description:
Special Circumstances follows Chilean exile Héctor Salgado as he returns to Chile from the USA to seek and confront the men who imprisoned him and tortured and killed his friends after the coup of 1973. Through his journey, audiences will come to understand the legal, political and social obstacles standing in the way of a nation's attempt, thirty years later, to overcome its brutal history. Throughout five years of determined digging, Héctor finds old friends and family members, victims' families, survivors and others who express divided and passionate opinions about Chile's past.The resulting film not only tells a dramatic story of Héctor's encounters with former military personnel, but also gives audiences a rare look at contemporary Chile and the nation's efforts to reconcile its troubling history.
Biography:
Marianne Teleki was raised in the Bay Area, Mexico and Brazil. Marianne worked as a field producer for Television Nacional de Chile. Special Circumstances, Marianne's directorial debut, received funding from Latino Public Broadcasting in 2004 and 2005. Her project has also received funding from the Pacific Pioneer Fund and Fleishhacker Foundation among others and is being produced in association with the Katahdin Foundation. She has also worked as a production assistant with Carlos Bolado, Mike Pryfogle and Stephen Most on The Klamath River and Finn Taylor on Cherish. Marianne is a member of Bay Area Women in Film and Television (BAWIFT), Film Arts (FAF) and the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC).
Contact information:
Marianne Teleki
Tunnel Productions
2127 Derby St.
Berkeley, CA 94705
E-mail: quepasion@yahoo.com
Web site: www.specialcircumstancesthemovie.com |
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