COUNTRY
Chile
PRODUCTION
Amilcar Films, Someday Productions, Pejeperro Films
YEAR2025
DURATION70 min
WRITING Sebastián González Méndez, Amilcar Infante, Hernán Saavedra
CINEMATOGRAPHY Sebastián González Méndez, Amilcar Infante
MUSIC
Matias Rojas, Cristian Freund, Sebastián González Méndez
EDITION Sebastián González Méndez, Hernán Saavedra
DISTRIBUTION Miradoc (Chile)
INTERNATIONAL SALES Jambika Docs (España)
CONTACT juan@jambikadocs.com
SYNOPSIS Northern Chile witnessed the country’s most violent anti-migration protest when 4,000 people marched through the city of Iquique, culminating in the burning of tents and attacks on migrant families and children, as police stood by. Crossing the Andean highlands, the Atacama Desert, and the coastal cliffs into the urban makeshift camps, Unwelcomed portrays, through a choral journey, the Venezuelan migration crisis in Latin America alongside the cultural clash and rising radicalization in frontier communities.
Sebastián González Méndez
Holds a degree in Economics and a diploma in Executive Production for Film, he has worked in various production roles, developing feature films and documentary series. In 2024, he writes and directs the short film
Consagración. He is currently circulating his debut feature
Unwelcomed (Hot Docs Emerging Filmmaker Award, Sydney Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest) and developing his first fiction feature,
Halfway, selected for Bal Lab 2025, France.
FILMOGRAPHY
Consagración (short film, 2024)
Amilcar Infante Cornejo
Graduate of Bande À Part Film School in Spain and founder of Amilcar Films, based in Chile. He is currently circulating his documentary
Unwelcomed, which premiered at Hot Docs 2025 and won the Emerging Filmmaker Award in the International Competition. His projects in development include the miniseries
Fotos: A Dialogue Between Past and Present, focusing on the recovery of neighborhood memory, and the feature film
Nipon Takes, shot during an expedition in Japan.
FILMOGRAPHY
Soterrament (short film, 2017),
Este lugar (short film, 2016)
