Shady River
Tatiana Mazú González
Arg. 2020. 82′
According to the myth still in force in the coal towns of Patagonia, if a woman enters a mine, the earth becomes jealous.
Then, there’s collapse and death. Shady River starts from a dark personal experience to transform in a film about the silence of women who live in men’s villages. How to film where our presence is prohibited? How to record the resonances of what doesn’t sound?
As the fog and smoke from the power plant cover the town, the voices of the women of Shady River force their way between the white of the ice and the hum of the drilling machines, until blowing up the structure of silence.
Direction, script and photography: Tatiana Mazú González
Production: Florencia Azorín
Editing: Sebastián Zanzottera
Sound design: Julian Galay
Assistant director: Manuel Embalse
Graphic design: Sofia Mazú González
Image postproduction: Daniela Medina Silva
Sound postproduction: Hernán Higa and Alan Fridman
Producer company: Antes Muerto Cine
Supported by the Young Biennal of Art of Buenos Aires 2019.
Festivals
FID (Marseille International Film Festival) – International Competition – France – 2020
Georges de Beauregard Prize
CIFF (Camden International Film Festival) – United States – 2020
Mar del Plata International Film Festival – Altered States Competition – Argentina – 2020
Cámara Lúcida – Opening film – Ecuador – 2020
Antofacine (Antofagasta International Festival) – New Languages Competition – Chile – 2020
Best film
FICIQQ (Iquique International Film Festival) – Extreme Cinema Competition – Chile – 2020
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FIDOCS (Santiago International Documentary Festival) – International Competition – Chile – 2020
DocLisboa – Present Archives – Portugal – 2020
AricaDOC – International Competition – Chile – 2020
Transcinema International Independent Film Festival – International Competition – Peru – 2020
FICE (Ensenada International Independent Film Festival) – National Competition – Argentina – 2020
Best film
FICBA (International Colombian Film Festival in Buenos Aires) – National Competition – Argentina – 2020
Best film
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival – Bosnia and Herzegovina – 2020
East Film Festival – International Competition – Argentina – 2020
East Film Festival – International Competition – Colombia – 2020
MiradasDOC – International Feature Film Competition – Spanish State – 2021
Best film
FICUNAM (UNAM International Film Festival) – Atlas – Mexico – 2021
Frontera Sur (International Non-Fiction Film Festival) – Aquí y en todos lados – Chile – 2021
FICIC (Cosquín International Film Festival International) – Feature Film Competition – Argentina – 2021
Best film
La mujer y el cine – Panorama – Argentina – 2021
Pachamama . Cinema de Fronteira – International Competition – Brazil – 2021
Best Direction Award
Vanda Duarte Women and Dissidence Film Festival. Anthology Film Archives of New York – United States – 2021
Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona – Spanish State – 2021
Doc Montevideo. Documentary week – Uruguay – 2021
Proyecto Ballena T/Tierra . Centro Cultural Kirchner – Argentina – 2021
DocBsAs – The politics of the authors. Focus Tatiana Mazú González – Argentina. 2021
Open City Documentary Festival. The Art of NonFiction – International Competition – United Kingdom – 2021
Emerging Filmmaker Award
SEFF (Santiago del Estero Film Festival) – International Documentary Competition – Argentina – 2021
Best film . RDI award
GRABA (Mendoza Audiovisual Festival) – National Feature Film Competition – Argentina – 2021
Cine Raíces (Independent Film Festival of Chivilcoy) – National Documentary Competition – Argentina – 2021
Special Mention of the Jury
Cinecipó (Serra do Cipó Social-Environmental Film Festival) – Brazil – 2021
PerSo (Perugia Social Film Festival) – International Competition – Italy – 2021
Atemporal (Itinerant Latin American Film Festival) – Latin American Film Veins – Peru – 2021
RABIA Latin American Film Festival – Argentina – 2021
Daimon II International streaming film festival – Mexico – 2021
Kino Palais / Casa Nacional del Bicentenario . Peripheral stories: new Argentine documentaries – Argentina – 2021
Sudamericanas . miradas desde el sur del mundo – Registro como dispositivo – Argentina – 2021
MIDBO (Bogotá International Documentary Festival) – Monitor and control – Colombia – 2021
24 hours of national cinema. Mar del Plata International Film Festival – Argentina – 2021
A screen open to Latin America – Colón Cinema – MiradasDoc – Spanish State – 2022
Panorama du cinéma colombien in Paris – Parallel Section Latin American Struggles – France – 2022
26th Film Week in Salta – Open files – Argentina – 2022
Foco Tatiana Mazú – Women in Focus – Chilean Film Students Network – Chile- 2022
Tenemos que ver – International Feature Film Competition – Uruguay – 2022
ASUFICC (Asunción International Contemporary Film Festival) – Focus Antes Muerto Cine film collective – Paraguay – 2022
Union of Feminist Graduates – Chile – 2022
UACH Faculty of Arts – Chile – 2022
FICIC (Cosquín International Independent Film Festival)- screening of winning film 2021 – Argentina – 2022
Biennial of the Moving Image – Norberto Griffa Award – Argentina – 2022
Premiere in theaters in Argentina – Sala Leopoldo Lugones – 2022
Premiere in theaters in Argentina – Gaumont Cinema – 2022
Premiere in theaters in Argentina – Cineclub Municipal Hugo del Carril – 2022
Premiere in theaters in Argentina – Pablo Ducrós Hicken Film Museum – 2022
Cinema by Women – Special 8M – Helios El Palomar Cinema – Argentina – 2023
Cinéma de Femmes d’Amerique du Sud – France – 2023
Feminist March – Aricadoc – Chile – 2023
Young Art Biennial of Buenos Aires – Argentina – 2023
Release in theaters in Colombia – Cinemateca de Bogotá – 2023
Release in theaters in Colombia – Cinemateca de Medellín – 2023
Release in theaters in Colombia – Cinemateca de Cali – 2023
