"Chilewood and Criteria for a Neoliberal Cinema"

What is it about?

This essay examines the films of Chilewood, a collaboration between Chilean director Nicolás López and U.S. director Eli Roth and which is based in Santiago, Chile. Chilewood’s films are genre films and are distinct from the auteur cinema currently emerging from Chile. Within the Chilewood endeavour, Chile serves as the base of production for genre cinema (romantic comedies, comedies, disaster films, thrillers, horror) for both domestic audiences and international audiences. While Chilewood’s films provide an instance to examine different forms of production, financing and content that enable the films to be exported, these same facets can be assessed for their neoliberal aspects.

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Why is it important?

This article examines an understudied facet of recent Chilean cinema, and Chilewood's films are available in multiple countries.