Tunnel Productions presents: Special Circumstances, a film by Marianne Teleki

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News

"Uncovering the Truth" — Hector Salgado and Paulina, the daughter of a Chilean Naval officer during the Pinochet regime, interviewed by Dick Gordon on American Public Media radio show The Story.
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Paulina knows her father was a Naval officer serving Augusto Pinochet when he seized power in Chile, but she never asked him what his role was. After he died, she started looking for answers. Her search led her to Hector Salgado - he was imprisoned at the same base where Paulina's father was stationed. Dick speaks with Paulina and Hector about coming to terms with a military coup nearly 40 years after it happens.
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"Uncovering the Truth" aired on The Story on Thursday, January 27, 2011 — Listen to it here, courtesy of The Story (external site)

IDA Pare Lorentz Award, International Documentary Association - Finalist
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LPB-VOCES-Circunstancias Especiales/Special Circumstances considered a finalist for the award: IDA Pare Lorentz Award, International Documentary Association.
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International Documentary Association (external site)

Museo de la Memoria y los DD-HH - Screening
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Museo de la Memoria y los DD-HH screened Circunstancias Especiales, Saturday, November 27, 2010, 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Ciclo De Cine - Exilio Auditorio, Santiago, Chile

25th Annual Imagen Awards - Nominated for Best Documentary/Television
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25th Annual Imagen Awards (external site)
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31st Banff World Television Festival (BANFF) - Nominated for World Television Award
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We are pleased to announce that SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES – CIRCUNSTANCIAS ESPECIALES, as part of the VOCES-PBS series, has been nominated to the 31st Banff World Television Festival (BANFF).
Chosen from 900 entries from more than 43 countries, the Banff World Television Awards, also known as the "Rockies", is one of the world’s most prestigious events celebrating outstanding work by international TV creators responsible for the continuing evolution and originality in the industry. This year’s Banff World Television Award recognise creativity and innovation from the world’s best television programming.
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31st Banff World Television Festival (BANFF) (external site)

Press

Circunstancias Especiales Wins Best Documentary Award at Festival Cine Digital Viña del Mar, Chile
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Festival Cine Digital Viña del Mar (external site)

Festival de Guadalajara
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Festival de Guadalajara

Chile's criminals confronted on film by someone who remembers, Abigail Curtis, San Francisco Chronicle, October 2007
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San Francisco Chronicle, October 2007 (external site)

Encounters with the Torturer, Nick Miroff, Mother Jones Magazine, May 2006
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Mother Jones, May 2006 (external site)
Mother Jones, Spanish (external site)

Will Pinochet's Henchmen be Brought to Justice? Mother Jones Magazine, December 2006
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Mother Jones, December 2006 (external site)

Pinochet dies, interview with Chilean exile Hector Salgado, Mother Jones Magazine audio
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Mother Jones, audio (external site)

Documental Circunstancias Especiales se estrena en Chile, Fernando A. Torres, Analisis a Fondo, October 2007
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Analisis a Fondo, October 2007 (external site)

Awards & Festivals

Awards

WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY Festival de Documentales Pintacanes, Chile (June 2008)

WINNER: AUDIENCE AWARD Latin American Film Festival, Holland (May 2008)

WINNER: BEST EDITING Festival Cine Ceará Fortaleza, Brazil (April 2008)

WINNER: SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Festival Cinema Africano, Asia, America Latina Milano, Italia (April 2008)

WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY Festival Internacional de Cine Digital, Viña del Mar, Chile (January 2008)

WINNER: SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Festival Internacional de Documentales (FIDOCS) Santiago, Chile (November 2007)

WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY Festival de Cine Social y Derechos Humanos CINE OTRO, Valparaiso, Chile (January 2008)

WINNER: BEST LOCAL DIRECTOR San Francisco Latino Film Festival, USA (November 2007)

WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY Berkeley Film and Video Festival, USA (October 2007)

Festivals

Festival de Films sur les Droits de la Personne de Montréal/Human Rights, Canada (March 2009)

Festival de Cine Latinoamericano y del Caribe, Finland (October 2008)

XXV Festival de Cine de Bogota, Colombia (October 2008)

Providence Latin American Film Festival, USA (September 2008)

International Documentary Film Festival of México City, México (September 2008)

Festival Documental Encuentros del Otro Cine, Ecuador (May 2008)

V Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid, España (May 2008)

Portland Women’s Film Festival, Oregon, USA (May 2008)

Cine Las Americas Festival Internacional de Cine Austin, Texas, USA (April 2008)

It’s All True, Festival Internacional de Documentales, Brazil (April 2008)

Festival Internacional de Cine Guadalajara, México (March 2008)

Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena, Colombia (February 2008)

La Habana Festival Internacional de Cine, Cuba (December 2007)

Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar, Chile (October 2007)

Los Angeles Latino Film Festival, USA (October 2007)

Boston Latino Film Festival, USA (October 2007)

United Nations Film Festival Stanford, California, USA (October 2007)

Quotes

"Marianne Teleki is a sensitive and talented filmmaker who has been able to record in Salgado's personal tragedy, the troubles of a country under a brutal dictatorship…."
-Isabel Allende, Author

"Héctor Salgado is one of 35,000 Chileans who were incarcerated and tortured by Pinochet’s dictatorship. After many years of exile in the US he decides to return to Chile with a camera to show the world the face of his perpetrators. A dozen cowardly military officers appear before us incapable of explaining or take responsibility for their acts. This documentary, sincere and direct, gives audiences around the world a lesson in political memory. I ask myself what would have happened if each one of us 35,000 political prisoners would have done the same as Héctor. Surely we would have a much better democracy than the one we have today."
-Patricio Guzmán, Documentary Filmmaker - BATTLE OF CHILE, CASE OF PINOCHET

"Special Circumstances is a moving first-hand account of one victim’s reencounter with his torturers. It converts a national tragedy into a compelling personal history. Juxtaposing past and present, it brings home the personal costs of political conflict in ways that history lessons rarely do."
-Gwen Kirkpatrick, Professor, Georgetown University