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THE FABULOUS GOLD HARVESTING MACHINE

FILMS

Directed by Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza

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EQUIPMENT

Director: Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza Producers: Francisco Hervé, Alfredo Pourailly, Annemiek van der Hell Editors: Javiera Velozo, Alfredo Pourailly, Melisa Miranda Sound: Gustavo Agurto, Rodrigo Mendez Music: Karl Heortweard Cinematography: Alfredo Pourailly

SYNOPSIS

A fabulous family love story, filmed over seven years on the isolated island of Tierra del Fuego. One of the island's last gold prospectors and his young cowboy son, who wants to help his father find a better future by designing and building a gold-harvesting machine.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

Oscars Academy Awards - Longlist Best Feature Documentary 2024

Platinum Awards - Shortlist Values & Education 2024

Chilean Art Critics Circle - Best Documentary 2024

IDFA - Best of Fests

Hot Docs - International Competition

Guadalajara - Best Film FEISAL Award, Best Feature Documentary

Lima Film Festival - Best Feature Documentary, OIT-Cinetrab Award

SANFIC - Best Chilean Film Award

La Serena IFF - Best Chilean Film, Best Cinematography

Iquique IFF - Best Chilean Film, Best Cinematography

Chiloé IFF - Best Chilean Film

Chilean Cinema IFF - Special Jury Award, Audience Award

DOC NYC

DOC POINT

Big Sky

Tempo

Thessaloniki

One World

Cinelatino Toulouse

Full Frame

Pordenone

DOK.fest Munchen

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"A long and intimate journey developed over seven years between a father and son, which impressed the jury with its careful observation of a complex relationship, its humor, and its creative and visceral treatment of inventive contrasts between tradition and modernity, the earth and the machine. With a narrative breadth achieved over so many years of filming, this film succeeds in revealing the powerful force of filial love."

Best Documentary Award

Jury of the Guadalajara International Film Festival 2024

PRESS

POV - CANADA'S DOCUMENTARY MAGAZINE - "When Family Is Gold"

THE CLINIC - "It's one of those plays that leaves your heart a little warmer."

BIOBIO CHILE - "It addresses the love of a son who accepts his very old father as he is."

EL PAÍS - "The odyssey of building the machine took seven years"

CNN - Interview with director Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza

ALFREDOPOURAILLY DE LA PLAZA

Director - Producer -Cinematographer - Editor

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Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza is a Chilean-Spanish director, producer and photographer.

The Fabulous Gold Harvester is his directorial debut.

His work is closely linked to the southern territory of Chile, specifically the Magallanes region and the Tierra del Fuego archipelago and Cape Horn.

Through his production company 55 SUR media, he develops various audiovisual, photographic, and cultural management projects.

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