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Santiago, 2018, and roiling student protests highlight ongoing state violence and the criminalization of dissent in Diego Ayala and Aníbal Jofre’s latest feature,” The Affections” (“Los Afectos”), bowing in competition alongside nine Chilean projects at the Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic).

Having met in film school, this is the pair’s second feature following their 2013 feature-length title, “Volantín Cortao,” which was selected for Locarno’s Carte Blanche and saw a debut at the Rome Film Festival.

Produced by Valentina Roblero Arellano and Francisca Mery at Chile’s Orion Cine and co-produced by Ecuador’s Incubadora, the film follows school inspector Benajmín (Gastón Salgado) amidst the unrest as student pushback simmers and he grows weary of his daughter Karina’s (Catalina Ríos) close friend Iván (Gianluca Abarza), who encourages her bold activism. When she’s killed by authorities during a demonstration, he’s challenged to reevaluate long-held beliefs.

The project...

Erik Barmack’s Wild Sheep Content, the new L.A.-based company of the former Netflix VP, has boarded “Cromosoma 21,” an original crime mystery series created and directed by Chile’s Matías Venables Brito which adds major twists to a classic murder witness narrative.

Executive produced by Nico Martínez Bergen, Barmack and Venables, and shooting in Chile from Sept. 27, “Chromosoma 21” is set up at Film N’ Maker in Santiago de Chile.

Wild Sheep Content is co-producing “Cromosoma 21” and handling rights for international distribution.

“Cromosoma 21” will be one of the first Wild Sheep Content series to go into production.

The series has attracted high-profile Chilean actors such as Daniel Muñoz (“La Jauría”), Claudia di Girolamo and Mario Horton (“Spider”). Of other key cast, Sebastián Solorza plays Tomy, Pia Urrutia his girlfriend and Gastón Salgado his brother. Newcomer Valentina Muhr takes on the role of an a Pdi detective, Mariana, who’s assigned to the case.

JESÚS Breaking Glass Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Fernando Guzzoni Written by: Fernando Guzzoni Cast: Nicolás Durán, Alejandro Goic, Gastón Salgado, Sebastían Ayala, Esteban González Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/14/17 Opens: September 1, 2017 with September 19, 2017 DVD/VOD In the superb episodic TV drama “Homeland,” a 16-year-old girl involved […]

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★★★★☆ "Treat people the way they should be treated." Worthy sentiment is turned ambiguous in Jorge Riquelme Serrano's unsettling class conflict drama. As a member of the jet-setting bourgeoisie and somebody who comes across as a total snob, Paulina (Paulina Urrutia) thinks everybody should know their place. For Paula (Paula Zúñiga), Paulina's lover, it means aspiration and equality. For their unexpected guest, Gastón (Gastón Salgado), the comment is reversed engineered class-based angst with a psychopathic edge: take from those who use the working class and discard them once you're done.

Adolescent hijinks turn tragic on multiple fronts in Fernando Guzzoni‘s Jesús despite my not being sure there was going to be a solid point to the film until mid-way through. Everything previous merely sat as a slice of life for the titular character, a normal everyday Chilean punk named Jesús (Nicolás Durán) with too much autonomy and not enough direction. He’s practically raising himself after the death of his mother, Dad (Alejandro Goic‘s Héctor) constantly out of town working. So the eighteen-year old roams the streets dancing with a Korean Pop band for kicks, breaking into parks at night to drink and do whippits, or cruising for girls at parties to earn a blowjob. He means well most times, but his malleability when drunk inevitably spells trouble.

And it’s a good thing trouble comes — not for him, but the audience. Before then the only real action occurs off-screen,...