Private Project

K-ndle

Brian Montalvo, Diarra Conde, Evens Clercema, Rosa Vargas and
Yoxelin Rivas have something in common. All are Afros, migrants and artists based in Santiago de Chile. Through a choral story, they express the tear that meant leaving their countries, how they feel in Chile, racism and xenophobia, their desires and desires and what it means to represent African art and cultural heritage in this country. While they dialogue and meet, they question their own lives, making decisions that will lead them to find themselves deeply with themselves.

  • Pablo Mardones
    Director
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  • Isabel Araya
    Writer
  • Pablo Mardones
    Writer
  • Lissien Salazar
    Writer
  • Isabel Araya
    Producer
  • Lisien Salazar
    Producer
  • Brian Montalvo
    Key Cast
    "Brian"
  • Diarra Conde
    Key Cast
    "Diarra"
  • Evens Clercema
    Key Cast
    "Evens"
  • Rosa Vargas
    Key Cast
    "Rosa"
  • Yoxelin Rivas
    Key Cast
    "Yoxelin"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    K-ndela
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Feature
  • Genres:
    Antropology, Ethnicity, Migration, Music, Genre
  • Runtime:
    60 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 31, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Chile
  • Country of Filming:
    Chile
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Miradas Regionales, - Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral
    Santiago
    Chile
    April 5, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Avant Premiere - Escuela de Música de la Academia de Humanismo Cristiano
    Santiago
    Chile
    June 14, 2018
    Avant Premiere
  • Aniversario del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (INTE) de la UNAP
    Chile
    June 19, 2018
    Avant Premiere Iquique
Distribution Information
  • Cintamani Films
    Country: Chile
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Pablo Mardones

EDUCATION AND FORMATION
Director of Photography (DF) at the Center for Vocational Training (CFP) of the Trade Union of the Cinematrographic Industry of Argentina (SICA) (2011-2012).
Trained in Film and Ethnographic Video and Camera and Documentary Lighting in the Documentary Movement (2005) and in Editing and Assembly, Documentary Film, Script and Assistant and Camera Monitor in the Vocational Training Center (CFP) of the Trade Union of the Industry of Cinematrográfica Argentina (SICA) (2006 - 2009).
In 2012 he held a seminar specializing in recording with DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras.
Social Anthropologist of the University of Chile, Master in International Migration Policy of the University of Buenos Aires and Doctor of Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires.
In 2007 he completed the Diploma course "Migrations and Intercultural Praxis: Building dialogues between cultures of the Intercultural Training Program (PEI)" of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (2007).
Dictates the Seminar "The Thinking Chamber", which was held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires between 2012 and 2014, at the Faculty of Anthropology of the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla in 2015 and in the Aula Magna of the National University of Tierra del Fuego in 2016.
WORK
He is the founder of ALPACA (Latin America: Projects Associated with Cinema and Anthropology www.alpacaproducciones.com.ar /) Producciones, an audiovisual firm that he represents as an audiovisual producer. Through it, he has directed a series of
documentaries dedicated to culture, identity, indigenous worldview and afrodescendence, focusing on international migration processes, social memory and processes of race construction. ALPACA producciones is registered with the Federal Audiovisual Communication Services Authority (AFCSA). CUIL: 20-
94,296,646 / 7. He is also a professional photographer:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/133648159@N03/
He is an associate member of the Ethnographic Audiovisual Archive (AEA) of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Chile. He has developed training and extension activities for the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), which include training documentary workshops and audiovisual professional training.
He teaches the Seminar "Audiovisual Strategies in Social Philosophy" of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA and the Seminar "The Camera that thinks" (realized in diverse universities of Latin America) where it trains to social investigators in technicians and audio-visual tools.

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Director Statement

The medium-length documentary narrates the life of a group of African and Afro-descendant migrants settled in Santiago de Chile. They are all dance and music teachers and dancers from their countries of origin: Cuba, Guinea, Haiti, Peru and Venezuela. Located in Chile, a country that has historically obscured its Afro roots, they suggest the body and its expression as channels to deconstruct
stereotypes about Afro. Our observation, in addition to the press and TV review carried out, shows the incidence in Chile of approaches to the new migratory flows in the country, which, when not focused on criminalization, focus on the victimization of Afro-Colombian migrants: of precarization of employment and housing or difficulties in documentation and access to rights. Stressing the myths and stereotypes of these discourses, we work with these musicians and dancers with the purpose of identifying the contributions and symbolic, cultural and artistic contributions of these people and the recognition processes to the black migrant population in Chile. These qualified and reputed migrants are
protagonists of the Afro-musical and dance identity of their places of origin and, through their migratory experiences, transnationalize this black symbolic cultural legacy to Chile. In this dynamic, these people build territorialities, social capital and production of new cultural practices, which help to deconstruct xenophobic-racist and exotic social imaginaries regarding black migration in this metropolis.