Samuel Carvajal

Movies

Descomedidos y chascones
Director of Photography
It portrays young people from different social and political classes, and collects their impressions of the context in which they live. The documentary offers a critical view of the youth of the Unidad Popular period, through an audiovisual essay.
The Witnesses
Assistant Camera
This stark Chilean melodrama concerns itself with the plight of slum dwellers living outside Santiago. For many years they have, with great difficulty, been faithfully paying small sums to a real estate man. This man has said that by doing so they can obtain title to the miniscule plots of land their houses stand on. In fact, he has been swindling them and does not even own the land he has been "selling." One of the aggrieved slum dwellers confronts him about this while he is visiting the slum, and the real estate agent shoots him before everyone's eyes. The question confronting these witnesses is whether testifying against this monster will make their lives even more precarious.
Venceremos
Camera Operator
A collage of images showing the two faces of a society. That of poverty and that of wealth. Throughout the documentary, this antagonism is shown: populations in unhealthy conditions, and on the other hand, large showcases with mannequins.
El fin del juego
Assistant Camera
A man squanders all of his wife's fortune in gambling and drinking. Now in financial crisis, the woman tries to keep their home afloat, while he plays, gets drunk and lives off his friends charity and good will.
Nütuayin Mapu
Camera Operator
"Nütuayin Mapu", which in Mapuche language means "Let's recover our land", is a documentary about the Mapuche conflict and the struggle of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement and the inhabitants of Camp Lautaro, who in the face of the precarious Chilean legislation seek to recover the ancestral land that belongs to them through the displacement of fences and land seizure.
Nütuayin Mapu
Editor
"Nütuayin Mapu", which in Mapuche language means "Let's recover our land", is a documentary about the Mapuche conflict and the struggle of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement and the inhabitants of Camp Lautaro, who in the face of the precarious Chilean legislation seek to recover the ancestral land that belongs to them through the displacement of fences and land seizure.
Nütuayin Mapu
Director of Photography
"Nütuayin Mapu", which in Mapuche language means "Let's recover our land", is a documentary about the Mapuche conflict and the struggle of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement and the inhabitants of Camp Lautaro, who in the face of the precarious Chilean legislation seek to recover the ancestral land that belongs to them through the displacement of fences and land seizure.
Escuela Santa María de Iquique 1907
Camera Operator
From the ruins of the Santa María School in Iquique, the events of the saltpeter strike in the north, which ended in 1907 with the slaughter of thousands of workers, are recounted. The documentary looks at this history through the eyes of a survivor.