L’homme caché
- Direction
- Sergio Castro
- Country
- France, Chile
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Fiction
- Original title
- L’homme caché
- Scenario
- Sergio Castro
Sergio Castro
Sergio Castro’s first feature film, Paseo (2009), was screened at several independent film festivals including the BAFICI, Cartagena de Indias, London, Próximo Futuro in Lisbon, Trieste and Valdivia. It won the Jury Prize for Best Chilean Film at the Santiago Festival in 2009 (SANFIC5). In 2010, he directed El frío misterio, Best Documentary at Inedit Chile and premiered at Inedit Barcelona, and A Day with Tortoise, a documentary about the North American group. He is currently working on his third film, El Paraíso, with the Argentinian screenwriter and director, Alejandro Fadel.
Filmography
Paseo (fiction) El frio misterioso (documentaire) Un dia con Tortoise (documentaire) La mujer de Barro (fiction en post-production)
Note of intent
My film follows my meeting with Marcela, sister of Ricardo. This marked for me the beginning of an investigation. I then questioned about loneliness and survival, on the transition to democracy of my country. Through interviews with Marcela, I am interested in portraying a young man, author of several homicides that have forever changed our History.
Synopsis
After attending the capture of his father from the hands of Pinochet’s soldiers, Ricardo, a young man of 17, decides to join the “resistance front” that work against the dictatorship. Ricardo life changes forever when participating in an operation which finishes with the death of a senator,5 which is the brain of the “military coup” in Chile. Ricardo is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was interrogated and tortured. Yet while the future was very dark for him, he managed to escape. Now in 2015 he is still the most wanted man in the country. Hidden somewhere, Ricardo yet managed to contact his relatives. This film is his story, past and present, that of “hidden man.”
Visual concept
Research and memory are the concepts of the film. The characters are itinerant, who searched the places visited by the protagonist, invisible. This path will be filmed with a camera on steady cam and wide dolly. The interviews will be worked in VoiceOver, they evoke memories of a family album, the listening of a jail recording, the reading of a letter. The archives will be independent times. There will fictional scenes to embody Ricardo.
- Objectives sought in Films in Development
TV and financing
- Shooting planned date
April 2016
- Planned shooting location
Chile
- Project's development phase
In production.
- Production
- Les Films Figures Libres
- Producer's biography
Sonia Paramo is manager of Les Films Figures Libres from 15 years ago. Her collaboration with Cinélatino led her to co-produce 3 films with Latin America. Also passionate about music, Sonia produced films in the field of opera, classical, jazz and pop music. Sonia won in September 2015 call for project-Cinélatino France Télévisions for the project of Sergio Castro The hidden man.