El Pacto de Adriana

Adriana's Pact
Adriana was always the director’s favourite Aunty. A confident woman who had settled in Australia, one day in 2007 she is suddenly arrested while visiting her family in Chile and accused of having worked for dictator Pinochet’s notorious secret police, DINA. The aunt denies these accusations. Her niece sets out to investigate Adriana’s history and begins filming. By 2011, her investigations are beginning to expand more and more, but then her Aunt suddenly takes flight, just before a trial. Adriana asks her niece to interview her former colleagues who will be able to confirm her innocence. The film reveals long buried conflicts within the family which reflect the social problems of the country as a whole. The filmmaker’s research into DINA provokes tension between the generations – is Adriana refusing to talk about the past, or is something preventing her from doing so? An extremely personal debut in which Lissette Orozco manages the difficult balancing act of maintaining her role as both niece and filmmaker. By showing the film shoot, she addresses the act of filmmaking itself. And as she moves forward, layer by layer, her personal life unwittingly becomes political.
by Lissette Orozco Chile 2017 Spanish, English 96’ Colour Documentary form

Crew

Written and Directed by Lissette Orozco
Cinematography Julio Zuñiga, Daniela Ibaceta, Brian Martínez
Editing Melisa Miranda
Music Santiago Farah
Sound Design Cristian Crosgrove
Sound María Ignacia Williamson
Executive Producers Gabriela Sandoval, Carlos Núñez, Benjamin Band
Co-Producers Pablo Berthelón, Melisa Miranda, Matías Echeverría
Co-Production Carnada Films Santiago de Chile
Ursus Films Santiago de Chile
La Post Santiago de Chile
235 Bogotá, Colombia

World sales

Salmon Producciones

Lissette Orozco

Born in Santiago de Chile in 1987, she is a director and screenwriter who studied documentary at the Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación in Santiago. El Pacto de Adriana (Adriana’s Pact) is her feature film debut and has already received support during its development phase from the Tribeca Film Institute. She has worked on various film projects as assistant director, researcher, consultant and writer.

Filmography

2010 El día Ideal; short film 2014 Subsuelo; short film · Vorágine; short film 2017 El Pacto de Adriana (Adriana's Pact)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017