María Paz González

María Paz González

Birth : , Temuco, Chile

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María Paz González

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Lina from Lima
Lyricist
It’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.
Lina from Lima
Screenplay
It’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.
Lina from Lima
Director
It’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.
Night Shot
Writer
Recording the everyday was always a way of relating to the world. One night the rape occurred and everything changed, although the recording continued. By revisiting these images a dialogue between light and darkness emerges, while strangeness remains before the world.
The Union
Thanks
The Amateur Soccer Referee Federation has a new board of directors, who face the challenge of renewing their image after a 90-year history. But these leaders receive a broke organization and headquarters that are in precarious conditions. They have also aged, but have nothing to lose and will work together to reinvent themselves.
Stealing Rodin
Producer
One morning in June 2005, the guards of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, noticed that a millionaire Auguste Rodin sculpture had been stolen. 24 hours after the event a shy art student returns the piece arguing that he had stolen it as part of an artistic project. A documentary that explores the dilemmas of the artist and contemporary art.
Resurrecting Hassan
Executive Producer
Traces the lives of the Hartings, a blind Montreal family of three who make their living singing in the city's subway stations. The Hartings lost their only sighted child Hassan in a tragic drowning accident, and have since turned to the teachings of Russian mystic Grigori Grabovoi, hoping to resurrect their son. Resurrecting Hassan is an exploration of this family's legacy of grief, tragedy and abuse; the film will follow them on their path to redemption.
Genoveva
Thanks
A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture, conversations with family members, a trip to southern Chile cities, and an actress who re-enacts the photo, we see the existing prejudice against indigenous people.
Tea Time
Thanks
More than sixty years after leaving high school, former classmates Alicia, Gema, Angelica, Ximena and Maria Teresa are still devoted to their regular catch-ups in which they exchange gossip and reminiscences over elaborately presented afternoon teas. Impeccably turned out, the ladies’ free-wheeling tea-time chats run the gamut from mortality and marital infidelity to soccer and twerking.
Propaganda
Associate Producer
PROPAGANDA is a follow up to the 2013 presidential campaign, in the midst of major social unrest in recent years. A single-car caravan crossing the desert, a protest flag covers the entire Alameda a candidate copuchea surveys on a dressing room. PROPAGANDA proposes a visual journey through the most extraordinary places of election, inviting reflection on the complex relationship between politicians and citizens, through the eyes of several filmmakers in the country.
Profes
Writer
An inside look of Chilean education from six teachers' point of view.
Daughter
Self
A journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts
Daughter
Producer
A journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts
Daughter
Writer
A journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts
Daughter
Director
A journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts
Las cosas como son
Thanks
Jerónimo is an antisocial local man who rents rooms in his home to expats so he can snoop around their belongings. One day Sanna arrives, a girl who will change Jerónimo’s life. They start getting closer until Jerónimo discovers that Sanna is hiding something in his house.
Mauchos
Writer
At the dawn of February 27, 2010, an 8.8 earthquake and tsunami devastated the central zone of Chile. That day, the history of Constitución -a small coast and forestall city- changed forever. Its tragedy turned the city into the centre of international news and its people, the Mauchos, into the protagonists of a difficult process of reconstruction. This is the story of how the Mauchos started to reform their lives and returned to the sea.
The Power of Speech
Director of Photography
Hardy makes a living selling knickknacks on chilean buses. But a Government announcement worries him. We will soon be a World Class country, we will have a modern and elegant public transportation system, so we will tolerate his job no longer. He gathers two thousand colleagues and together they struggle to survive modernity.
The Power of Speech
Producer
Hardy makes a living selling knickknacks on chilean buses. But a Government announcement worries him. We will soon be a World Class country, we will have a modern and elegant public transportation system, so we will tolerate his job no longer. He gathers two thousand colleagues and together they struggle to survive modernity.
Nacho Libre
Set Decoration
Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed.
ANACHRONISMS
Art Direction
Three different ways of facing the apocalypse five hours before the end of the world. fantastic and romantic moments of love, an anxious waiting time and the desperate search for pepper in an apocalyptic and crazy world. Events cross and mix. Time seems to get beyond control.How does one live out the last five hours and 38 minutes before the end? We see the last. /// A cinco horas del fin del mundo, se plantean tres maneras diferentes de afrontar el apocalipsis.
Morir de pie
Director
Cruz is an actress who has dedicated her career to play different roles for medical students in college. She is a simulated patient who performs emotions and ailments in front of young doctors who are confronted to unknown realities for them. One night, while she is jogging in the gym inside the building where she lives, Cruz witnesses a body falling from above. But instead of helping the victim, she keeps jogging. Her lack of reaction is recorded by a security camera, and is later questioned by the police. Unable to explain what happened and confronted by the unexpected death of an unknown person, Cruz realizes how her life seems to have been disconnected from all natural impulses, doubting about her reactions, her job and above all, her own affections.