Director Gabriel Montiel
Producer Luis Cifuentes Saravia
Chile
Synopsis
Adelaida, the last bearer of an ancestral culture nearly erased, lives in isolation in the mountains until Julie, a French anthropologist, arrives to assess the impact of a mining project. What begins as a guarded encounter slowly becomes an intimate journey where both women confront grief, uncover shared memory, and embrace the spiritual resistance of a land struggling to remain alive.
Contact luis@luchofilms.cl
Director´s Biofilmography
Audiovisual filmmaker from Puerto Montt, belonging to the Pehuenche Indigenous people of southern Chile. He studied Audiovisual Communication at Duoc UC (Concepción). He is the director and screenwriter of fiction and documentary short films focused on southern territories and Indigenous memory. His notable works include La Costa and Kintullanka (2015), both produced in the Biobío Region, and Bivalva (2023), filmed in the Los Lagos Region. He has participated in film training and development programs such as CortosLab, MapuLab, Surmic, and BioBioCine Formación, among others. He currently works as an instructor leading audiovisual workshops in communities across southern Chile, fostering creative processes and territorial identity.
Links to previous works
Total budget 608422
Funds secured 294917
Objectives to be achieved
Our participation in the Co-Production Market at the Málaga Film Festival aims primarily to strengthen the international visibility of Témpanos and to consolidate strategic partnerships that will allow us to complete its financing and co-production plan. The project, currently in an advanced stage of development, seeks to collaborate with partners in France, Argentina, and Canada—countries with cultural affinities and direct narrative links to the film, as well as existing co-production agreements with Chile. We are particularly interested in connecting with independent production companies, international funds, sales agents, and project development labs that work with auteur cinema, Indigenous perspectives, and intercultural narratives.
Co-production´s interesting countries
We aim to co-produce with France, Argentina, and Canada.
France is a natural partner due to the French co-protagonist and an existing co-production agreement with Chile.
Argentina shares the Patagonian territory and Selk’nam cultural heritage represented in the film.
Canada has strong support programs for Indigenous-focused cinema, and we already have interest from Le Foyer Films.
PRODUCER’S BIOFILMOGRAPHY
Chilean producer and founder of Lucho Films, based in Valparaíso and Santiago. He has developed his career in executive production, direction, and cultural management, with complementary training at the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Universidad de Chile, and the EICTV (Cuba). He has produced feature films showcased and awarded at festivals such as Miami, Valdivia, Havana, Toronto, Rotterdam, and SANFIC, including In the Grayscale (2014), Sin Norte (2015), La Holandesa (2017), Ausencia (2017), De la noche a la mañana (2019), and No estoy en el mar (2024). He is currently producing Epilogue for an Autumn (Chile–Canada coproduction) and developing Témpanos, the debut feature by Gabriel Montiel, promoting projects that explore memory, territory, and identity with an international scope.
