Andrés Gallegos
Director of Photography
andresgallegos.y@eldoradofilms.net
Born in Chile, Andrés Gallegos discovered his passion for films at an early stage of his life. In 2008 he graduated with a degree in audio-visual communications at Uniacc, in Santiago de Chile. He has shot more than fifteen short films and six feature films to date as a DP. Andrés was awarded Best Cinematography at Fesancor (Santiago Short Film) Festival for Axion, when he was just twenty-two years old. Motivated by his passion for cinematography, Andrés moved to California to earn his MFA in Cinema at San Francisco State University, where he graduated and received the Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievement. His work has screened at Cannes, Raindance, Mill Valley, Valdivia and more.
Like any art form, cinema is constantly looking for mutations; mutations to create new representations of the human condition. I think that the cinematic experience is a theatrical illusion that uses narrative or non-narrative structures as a technic for interpersonal persuasion. I strongly believe that one of the key goals of cinema is to expand the conciseness of society. The democratization of film production has changed the rules of the game, allowing the rising of new cinematic visions. Exciting!
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Based on a true story and contextualized in Chile, 1989, this film narrates the story Diego, an 11 years old shoe shiner. The film portrays his struggle to survive and the loss of his innocence.
Driven to reconstitute his past, an aging man searches for his most precious memory.
Guy Hircefeld, a veteran that served in the Israeli military at the start of its occupation of Palestine in the 1980s, now fights against Israeli occupation, ethnic cleansing, and environmental warfare. His only weapon is a camera.
