In the Heart of Chile
Documentary Short/47m/USA/Chile/Spanish and English/2007

Director: Stacy Barton

Cast: Darinka Guevara, Marjorie Agosin, Malu Urrila, Eugenia Prado, Hugo Cardenas, Jordi Lloret

Synopsis:  This documentary focuses on memory and free-expression in the post-dictatorial turned democratic society of Santiago, Chile, and the important and changing role of women, activism, and creativity within that transitory structure. Santiago, as the center of the militarized state during the dictatorship, was once littered with torture sites large and small. Today, these sites have been replaced with art, memorial, and the endless search for the disappeared. This documentary explores how memory manifests itself into forms of expression, and how the formerly oppressed underground are affecting that manifestation, In The Heart of Chile.

Director’s Bio: As the new Director of Education and Filmmaker Services at Chicago Filmmakers, Barton is most interested in 16mm experimental and documentary film literacy in the urban community.  She is driven by work that challenges the status quo with regards to form, politics, culture, representation, gender, and media literacy. After producing the Emmy Award winning teen magazine show titled Gumbo TV in Milwaukee, WI during its 3rd season for Strive Media Institute, Stacy spent 3 years teaching at Syracuse University where she received an MFA in filmmaking in 2007 with a strong interest in documentary and human rights.  Her latest work in the medium chronicles art, memory, activism, and the changing role of women in Santiago, Chile.

Stacy Barton
Stacy@StacyBarton.net