Documental – Josefina Morande

TODAY AND NOT TOMORROW

Directed by: JOSEFINA MORANDÉ
Executive Producer: Consuelo Castillo
Músic: Catalina Claro
Editor: Josefina Morandé
Script adviser: Carmen Castillo
Camera: Fernando Navarro, Josefina Morandé, Arleen Moreno, Guillermo González, Pablo Ávila.
Animation: LIV Studio
Sound Postproduction: Mario Díaz
Image Postproduction: Diáspora

TRAILER

SINOPSIS
In 1983 an exceptional group of women, who would leave a unique legacy in Chile’s history, sprung up. It was the movement called “Women for Life”.
During the military dictatorship, when few people dared go out on the streets, women who are almost forgotten today, organized rallies and art actions with thousands of other women, and courageously carried out quick and unprecedented demonstrations. Their goal was to speak up and expose what was going on in the country on behalf of those who could not do it, and thus put an end to the rule of death existing in Chile at the time.
In their pursuit of justice and freedom, these women opposed the military dictatorship and thus contributed to speed up the path to democracy. Today, these women, most of them seniors, continue to actively work towards making Chile a country of greater justice and solidarity.
Hand in hand with the oldest one of them, we will get to know this story, which asserts the role of our country’s women.

DIRECTOR´S NOTES

Memory is fundamental to peoples’ lives. Bringing it to life and keeping it alive is also the task of audiovisual artists.
There is a lot that needs to be brought to life in last 50 years of our country’s history and the years of the military dictatorship. There are hundreds of big and small deeds that despite having been forgotten are fundamental to the resistance’s fight.
Meeting 98-year-old Mónica Echeverría, an active member of this women’s movement, encouraged me to make this documentary. I have been recording her steps for a few years now, so I have travelled with her and gotten to know her well.
My aim is to create a living testimony of her experience together with the other women during those difficult years.
There is no documentary of this movement. The women have appeared briefly in different media, but they have never received attention really showing their importance for Chile.
As a woman, I am interested in finding out the way in which they managed to organize themselves and attain their political objective.
In making this movie I used today’s questions; that is, I used memory to feed today’s thinking.
I hope that this insightful and current woman, Mónica, will lead and inspire us in finding creative answers and solutions for present day Chile.
What she wants, at this late stage of her life, is to inspire those who watch her.

Josefina Morandé R-T

DIRECTOR´S BIOGRAPHY
Josefina Morandé has a degree in Cinema, mention of Documentary Film, at the Academy of Christian Humanism University of Santiago. Previously she studied Architecture and Graphic Design at the Catholic University of Valparaiso with Alberto Cruz, José Balcells, Claudio Girola and the poet Godofredo Iommi, among others. Within her long stay in Europe, her studies of Film and Digital Montage she stands out in FX ANIMATION Barcelona 3D&Film Scholl, mainly working for Fundació Fotocolectania, in Barcelona and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. On her return to Chile she studied Video Art at the Art School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Since 2001 she focuses on cinematographic activity mainly as Editor and Director of Photography. She is currently preparing the screenplay for “We Can’t Shut Up”, the 2018 Audiovisual Fund Award and concludes her first documentary work “Today and not Tomorrow.”

PRODUCTOR´S BIOGRAPHY
Consuelo Castillo is a filmmaker, cultural manager and actress. She was formed with teachers such as Luis Advis, Andrés Pérez, Alfredo Castro and Adrianne Mouchkine. She’s had roles as an actress in various theatrical pieces, films, video clips, photo soap operas and TV series.
Directs and produces more than ten radio soap operas, among which “The Epic of Salvador Allende” is highlighted.
From 1993 she focuses on the cinematographic activity performing roles as assistant to director,screenwriter, direction and executive production in both fiction and documentary. As a
parallel work, since 2013, she is Director at the Nemesio Antúnez Cultural Center where she
has clearly enhanced its activities as well as the cinematographic programming.