In his feature debut, which has just proved the biggest winner at Sanfic Industria’s 2022 Work in Progress strand, Chilean writer-director Alberto Hayden explores what has been almost an obsession …
. It ponders these questions in a story of two people. She is Josefina and he is Jorge . She has contacted him because four years ago, she lost her son who bears his exact same name, Jorge Ferrer Buriard. The coincidence is all the more unusual because the surname Buriard is uncommon in Chile and there is an uncanny physical resemblance.
A graduate in film direction from the Chilean Film School, Hayden has made several short films and a documentary, “Pangea,” which had its world premiere at the Guadalajara Film Festival. “Una Luz Negra” is produced by Joaquin Echevarria of Brisa Films and Benja Pinto.about the shoot, why he shifted points of view and what he’s working on next:The title rises from the paradoxical idea of something that shines despite its darkness, of something that emits a presence despite its absence.
Tells us why you chose to switch points of view midway, first through Jorge’s experience and later Josefina’s. The first part focuses on Jorge’s attempts to dig into whether they were related somehow as he searches online and through the young man’s social media accounts. It then shifts thematically and tonally, becoming more of a genre film as Josefina feels her son’s presence in the house. The intrigue of possible lost family ties, begins to be more about mourning and the relationship with death. There are unexplained sounds but no ghostly appearances. It remains grounded in reality.
We got some support from Chile’s audiovisual fund for micro-budget projects so we still need post-production and distribution support as well as a sales agent.It’s a sci-fi film titled “Glaciers” – with no special effects – about an elderly couple who decide to thaw their seven-year-old son who they had cyber frozen 40 years ago. It’s a reflection on the human desire to maintain life at all costs.
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