Carolina Astudillo Muñoz

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Carolina Astudillo Muñoz (Santiago de Chile) is a documentary filmmaker, researcher and teacher. Degree in Social Communication from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Postgraduate Diploma in Film Studies from the Universidad Católica de Chile and MA in Creative Documentary from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has developed and focused her work on historical research, documentary creation and writing, and women and historical memory have been her pivotal theme. Her documentaries De monstruos y faldas (Of Monsters and Skirts – 2008), Lo indecible (The Unspeakable – 2012), El deseo de la Civilización: Notas para El gran vuelo (The desire of Civilization: Notes for The Great Flight – 2014) and Un paseo por New York Harbor (A cruise through New York Harbor – 2019) have been awarded and exhibited in festivals such as Mar del Plata, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Festival de Málaga Cine Español and Biarritz Amérique Latine. Her first feature film, The Great Flight (2014) has been screened in various festivals, exhibitions and universities. She was awarded the Biznaga de Plata for Best Documentary at the Festival de Málaga (2015); Feroz Puerta Oscura Award for Best Documentary from the Asociación de Informadores Cinematográficos de España (AICE); award for Best Half-length Documentary in Alcances; Best documentary in Som Cinema. For this work the director won the Best Filmmaker Award granted by Asociación de Mujeres Cineastas y de Medios (CIMA) and the award to Best Editing in Sole Luna Doc Film Festival. Her second feature film, Ainhoa, that’s not me (2018) won for the second time the Biznaga de Plata for Best Documentary at Festival de Málaga, the Grand Jury Prize at Escales Documentaires (2018); Best Sound Award and Special Jury Award at DocumentaMadrid (2018) She has been invited to show her work at Université Paris-Sorbonne, Université de Franche-Comté, Université de Bourgogne, Aix-Marseille Université, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Universidad de Salamanca (CEISAL), Universidad del País Vasco (TyF), and Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. She has participated in academic activities and has taught courses, master classes and seminars (on Documentary Film Theory and Found Footage) in different universities and Cinema Schools such as the Universidad de Santiago (Chile), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia), Universidad Chileno-Británica de Cultura (Chile), Schools of Cinema ECIB, La Casa del Cine and LENS (España) among others. She combines her filmmaking work with the creation of videos for the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) and for the Associació per la Cultura i la Memòria de Catalunya (ACME). Since 2016 she has been a member of the Spanish Academy of Arts and Film Sciences (AACCE).

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Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage) Trailer (2024)

23 March 2024

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard".

Song to a Lady in the Shadow Trailer (2022)

02 May 2022

After fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into exile in France while his family waits for his return in a Catalan village.

Un paseo por New York Harbor Trailer (2019)

15 March 2019

The apparent quietness of a sunny Sunday kindles the walkers of New York. Do they not hear the chants for peace, the shouts against war or the agitation in the streets caused by the civil rights movements? A letter addressed to a brother, the words of poet Langston Hughes and the jazz rhythm reminds us that 1967 was a hectic year.

Of Monsters and Skirts Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

Libertad, Enriqueta, Maricarmen and Albert evoke the years when their mothers and his aunt stayed in Les Corts jail, times of innocence, hopelessness and distress.

And yet they were there Trailer (2021)

31 December 2021

Dominique, Suzanne, and Annette: three women who participated in the adventure of the Medvedkine groups (Besançon, Sochaux, 1967-1974).

The Civilization Desire: Notes of the Great Flight Trailer (2014)

24 October 2014

War as a preposterous and absolutely masculine fiction -as well as the educational and occupational exclusion of women in a society that educates them to serve and be mothers- is repudiated by Virginia Woof in Three Guineas.

Naturaleza muerta Trailer (2020)

14 November 2020

Freud described the sinister (unheimlich) as a contradictory experience where the strange is presented to us as known and the known becomes strange.

Ainhoa: That's Not Me Trailer (2018)

17 April 2018

A family that films, records and photographs daily life. Ainhoa, the youngest daughter, decides to start writing what she doesn’t want to tell anyone during her adolescence.

The Great Flight Trailer (2015)

30 October 2015

In the early years of the Franco dictatorship, Clara Pueyo Jornet, an active militant in the Communist Party, escapes from Les Corts prison in Barcelona by the front door.

I Wanna Be Your Mum Trailer (2023)

27 June 2023

An acid humor essay that questions everyday aspects of life that make us need to achieve motherhood, with a critical view on contemporary maternity.

The Unspeakable Trailer (2012)

14 October 2012

In November 1974, the Principal of a small school in Santiago was kidnapped and taken to a detention centre by State agents, who accused her of belonging to the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).

That Fleeting Essence Left by Events Trailer (2022)

03 May 2022