Maite Alberdi, the director who made Oscar history as the first Chilean woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, chats with The Hollywood Reporter about making her documentary 'The Eternal Memory.'
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00:00I have just received a question like when are you going to make a film and it's like I make films
00:06Like it's like when are you going to make your real film like your fiction film. It's like your career
00:12It's going to start. I already made five films and I will continue making
00:19Reality it's so powerful and it's so full of stories and experiences that I really don't need to write something because
00:28Everything it's already written in reality. It was like a very important year
00:33All the nominees were international films and it was a big change because you didn't see that
00:3910 years ago in the oscars and I was very proud of how the academy
00:45opened to diversity and to show that all that stories that seems to be
00:51From so far finally are so
00:54Close and we are speaking about topics that are connected to everybody. There is a lot of work to be done
01:02Especially for example in documentaries that I felt that it's always a category that it's a part
01:09the editors of documentaries spent one year 300 hours and
01:13It's a big talent, but it's always like a genre that it's
01:18Out in a way so I feel like there is a talent there
01:22in the documentary
01:24field I thought
01:26When I was shooting that I was making a film about alzheimer and about how you lose memory
01:33but
01:34After five years and in the editing I realized that I was making a film about what do you do you always remember?
01:41I met
01:42Augusto in his last five years and I felt that I really met him because I felt that his identity
01:50Was there because there are some things that he always remembered. He always remembered the friend that he lost during dictatorship
01:58He always remembered his love to paulina. So there are feelings that are permanent and that gave me so many layers
02:07Of life for me was a big metaphor of what was happening in chile
02:11The last year that was the anniversary of the coup and what is augusto saying it's like you can erase information
02:18But the pain of a country it's always going to be there and his pain
02:23Is there even if he didn't remember the dates even if he didn't remember the information
02:28That the pain is there so I learned with the eternal memory that the emotions love and pain
02:36Are permanent i'm making a movie, but it's easier to make a movie
02:41You control everything you write the script the actors do what do you ask to them? The problems can be resolved by money
02:48It's everything so controlled based in a chilean novel called las homicidas
02:55From alia trabuco and it's an adaptation of the book