ABSTRACT

During the last decade, Chilean cinema has emerged, thanks to the articulation of both local and global trends, based on the accumulation of symbolic, cultural, and social capital by Chilean filmmakers moving in transnational settings, such as international film festivals. The shifts in the international circulation and exhibition of Chilean films, and the persistent movements of Chilean filmmakers in these transnational contexts, have entailed new forms of doing and thinking about national cinema, impacting film practices and expanding professional networks beyond national borders. This chapter draws on an anthropological perspective on film circulation, and discusses how, as with other peripheral film industries, filmmakers’ mobilities in the international film festival network have played a major role in this recent upsurge of Chilean cinema.