The Santiago Wild Latin American wildlife and environmental film festival will be present with its fourth version this May 14, 15 and 16. Empowering Latin American talents, showing our unique landscapes and ecosystems, representing the problems and challenges of today’s world through a unique tool to communicate and build a story: cinema. So in Santiago Wild it arrives again as a place for those who want to tell their stories.
A hybrid environmental cinema experience
As in its previous edition, Santiago Wild 2024 will offer a hybrid experience that combines in-person events in Santiago, Chile with a free streaming platform. From May 9 to 23, viewers from all over the country, Latin America and the world will have the opportunity to enjoy this festival, which seeks to inspire, educate, inform and amaze through the best audiovisual productions about the environment and wildlife.
Diversity of free and paid activities
Santiago Wild 2024, organized by Ladera Sur with the support of National Geographic Society, Jackson Wild and Explora, offers a variety of activities for all tastes. In addition to screenings of nominated films and showcases, the festival includes free and paid in-person activities. The free ones include film screenings on May 10 and 18. The paid activities include events such as the Launch Night on May 9 at the La Moneda Cultural Center, the Natgeo Night on May 14, and the outstanding Summit on May 15, with talks and workshops led by leaders of the national audiovisual industry. and international. Finally, on May 16, the official awards ceremony and the Latin American premiere of the documentary “The Web Of Life”, narrated by Bjork, will take place.
Audiovisual Laboratory in Patagonia: promoting Latin American talent
In parallel with the activities in Santiago, from May 7 to 14 the Audiovisual Laboratory will offer an innovative workshop for scholarship talents from Latin America. Led by industry leaders in collaboration with National Geographic, participants will learn about science communication, filmmaking, and impact. Challenged to create a short film and with a unique opportunity for learning and professional development, this parallel event of the festival will take place in the Torres del Paine Conservation Reserve, in Chilean Patagonia.
International Competition
A total of 26 films were nominated in the categories of “New Latin American Voices” and “Latin America from the Eyes of the World” within them, they are divided into the sub-categories “Feature Film”, “Short Film” and “Microdocumentary”. Each category has a distinguished national and international jury that will decide the winners. In “New Latin American Voices,” the jury includes figures such as Gael Almeida, Executive Director for Latin America of National Geographic, and Ignacio Walker, nature documentary filmmaker and Emmy-nominated cinematographer. In “Latin America through the Eyes of the World”, jurors such as Geoffrey Daniels, Executive Director of the Jackson Wild festival, and Alexander Souller, ecologist and science journalist with vast experience in documentaries on wildlife, science, travel and the environment, participate.
Santiago Wild 2024 competition nominees
New Latin American Voices Category:
Subcategory Feature Films
Name – Director – Country – Contact
Jaguar Spirit – Director Emy Kondo – Costa Rica
PATROLING – Camilo de Castro, Brad Allgood- Nicaragua
TUPUNGATO – empathy in death – Rafael Pease- Chile
Blue Brazil – Cristian Dimitrius – Brazil
Biocentrics- Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo, Ataliba Benaim- Brazil
The swallow’s nest- José Manuel De la Parra Hormazábal- Chile
Allpamanda- Tawna Collective- Ecuador
Subcategory Short Films
Yaku Raymi: the Quechua ritual to save a snow-capped mountain – Lucía Galarza Suárez – Ecuador
Frontera- Bernardita Ojeda, Cristián Freire, Francisco Arévalo- Chile
Paramos: The sowing of water- FERNANDA PINEDA, HANZ RIPPE- Colombia
Boca Chica- Ái Vuong, Samuel Díaz Fernández- Colombia
Seeing Fungi- Mateo Barrenengoa- Chile
Micro-documentary Subcategory
There can be no loneliness- Oscar Gordillo- Cuba
Bwindi: a portrait of sisterhood- Carlos Christian Rivero- Venezuela
Aura: Nyavu ya kufunga- Juan Andres Silva- Chile
Invisible Work- Yuliana Durán- Colombia
Latin America in the Eyes of the World Category:
Subcategory Feature Films
We Are Guardians- Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman, Edivan Guajajara- US
The Hummingbird Effect- Terra Mater Studios GmbH- Austria
Peninsula Valdes: The Cradle of Patagonia- Steve Spence, Juan Maria Raggio – US
Water is Life- Will Parrinello – US
Saving Paradise: Torres del Paine – Athur Gal – France
Short Film Subcategory
Name – Director – Country – Contact
The Present- Timothy Dhalleine- Chile
Kalu – Growing up wild- Matteo Clark, Roman Willi
Dream to Cure Water- Ciril Jazbec- Slovenia
We Exist in Memory – Darian Woehr- US
In the Name of Ice- Louise Thaller, Stanislas Giroux – Switzerland
