MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to Sundance world-premiering love story The Eternal Memory, director Maite Alberdi’s follow-up to Oscar nominated doc The Mole Agent.
The movie, which screened within the Sundance Movie Pageant World Documentary Competitors part, may have its worldwide premiere on the Berlinale subsequent month within the Panorama Part and the corporate is planning a theatrical launch and strong awards marketing campaign later this yr.
The Everlasting Reminiscence was produced by Maite Alberdi, Juan De Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín and Rocío Jadue. Govt producers are Marcela Santibañez, Daniela Sandoval, Nicholas Hooper, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Chandra Jessee and Rebecca Lichtenfeld.
Within the movie, Augusto and Paulina have been collectively and in love for 25 years. Eight years in the past, he was recognized with Alzheimer’s illness, and his spouse has since change into his caretaker. As considered one of Chile’s most distinguished cultural commentators and tv presenters, Augusto isn’t any stranger to constructing an archive of reminiscence, having been accountable for that herculean activity following the Pinochet dictatorship and its systematic erasure of collective consciousness. Now he turns that work to his personal life, attempting to carry on to his identification with the assistance of his beloved spouse. Daily, the couple face this problem head-on, adapting to the disruptions introduced on by the taxing illness whereas counting on the tender affection and humorousness shared between them that continues to be intact.
“I am so happy that The Eternal Memory has found its home at MTV Documentary Films, which in recent years, has believed in the artistic innovation of documentaries and has released documentaries that I greatly admire,” mentioned Alberdi. “Working with Sheila Nevins is an honor, and I admire what she has built in the documentary industry.”
“The gift of love that lasts is revealed in The Eternal Memory. One cannot be cynical in Maite’s verité film – a remarkable achievement that allows us to observe what remains as memory fades. We reconsider the value of a long life lived and consider in our own lives the eternal reach of comfort and caring to an otherwise merciless end,” mentioned Nevins, Govt Producer, MTV Documentary Movies.
Nina Diaz and Liza Burnett Fefferman, Co-Head, MTV Documentary Movies, known as the doc “an extraordinary and sublime love story, we simply couldn’t take our eyes off the screen. The Eternal Memory left us so deeply moved and devoted to Augusto and Pauli – we can’t stop thinking, talking and marveling about the beautiful work Maite has done and how elated we are to bring this film out into the world.”
The movie is a Micromundo and Fabula manufacturing. Submarine and United Expertise Company Unbiased Movie Group brokered the cope with MTV Documentary Movies on behalf of the filmmakers.
UTA additionally represents director/producer Alberdi, the primary Chilean lady to be nominated on the Academy Awards, and an necessary voice in Latin American documentary. She premiered her final movie The Mole Agent at Sundance 2020. It was the primary Chilean documentary to be nominated for an Oscar.
In 2011, Alberdi launched her first function movie, The Lifeguard. Via Micromundo, her manufacturing firm, she directed her second movie Tea Time, which gained greater than 12 worldwide awards, and was nominated for the 2016 Goya for Greatest Ibero-American Movie. In 2016, she launched the brief movie I’m not from right here nominated for the European Movies Award and in addition premiered her third function The Grown-Ups that received 10 worldwide awards.
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