| Patricio
Henriquez |
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A
director for Chilean television, Patricio Henriquez settled
in Montreal after the coup d’état against president
Salvador Allende in 1973. After a first film, Yasser Arafat
et les Palestiniens (1980), Patricio began directing feature
stories for Radio-Québec. From 1980 to 1993, he worked
on dozens of stories for Quebec’s benchmark international
news magazine, Nord-Sud. In 1995, he directed a docudrama,
Les filles aux allumettes (ONF - Les Productions Virage)
on the exploitation of women workers.
Patrico collaborated on the Rainmakers (CBC/Productions
Adobe) series and codirected the documentary L'Afrique
sans remèdes (1996). After founding Macumba International
with Robert Cornellier and Raymonde Provencher, Patricio directed
episodes of the Living in the City series on some of
the planet’s supercities.
In 1998, he completed the highly acclaimed The Last Stand
of Salvador Allende, a film on the last day in the life
of the Chilean president. The following year, he signed
Images of a dictatorship, a unique look at life in Chile
under Pinochet. Since 2000, Patricio has directed and produced
several films in the Extremis collection on social
injustice around the world. In 2002, he completed Juchitan,
Queer Paradise, a film on a gay community in Mexico, as
well as a highly publicised Extremis episode on the
death penalty.
In 2003 he directed "Washed
Away",
one of five documentaries in the "Arctic Mission"
series, produced by Glacialis and the NFB and broadcast by
CBC (The Nature of Things).
Patricio’s films have been recognized and rewarded with
more than 40 prizes in Quebec, and around the world. The
Last Stand of Salvador Allende alone received a dozen
awards, including the 1998 Documentary of the Year Award of
the Société civile des auteurs multimédia
(SCAM) in Paris, the second prize, Documentaries, at the Festival
of New Latin American Cinema, in Havana, Cuba (1998), the
first prize at the Mumbai International Film Festival, and
the first prize at the Latino-American Independent Documentary
Film Encounter, in Mexico (2000).
For its part, Images of a Dictatorship, received the
Best Political Documentary Award at the Hot Docs Festival
in Toronto (2000), the 2000 Jutra for Best Documentary, the
International Award for Independent Films at the North-South
Media Encounters, in Geneva, Switzerland (2000), an Outstanding
Achievement Award at the DocAviv International Documentary
Film Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel (2000), the second prize
at the Belo Horizonte Documentary Film Festival in Brazil,
the Grand Award for Best Film & Video Production at the
Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, Texas (2000)
and the Best Documentary Video Award at the Latin-American
Video Festival, in Rosario, Argentina (2000).
Patricio also took home three Gémeaux awards:
two in 2001 for direction and research on episodes of the
Living in the City series, and the third in 2002 for
co-producing the Extremis documentary series.
In 2005, Patricio directed To Disobey, an
episode of the Extremis series, on a handful
of soldiers who dared to defy military orders and discipline
on ethical and moral grounds. In 2006, he directed The
Dark Side of the White Lady, an NFB documentary about
a Chilean ship that was used to detain and torture dissidents
following the September 1973 coup d’état.
Patricio completed Under the Hood, A Voyage into the
World of Torture, a feature-length documentary released
in 2008.
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