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THE MAID
THE MAID<br />
Writed by: Sebastián Silva and Pedro Peirano.<br />
Directed by: Sebastian Silva.<br />
Co-production with: Diroriro, Tiburón Filmes (México), Puntoguiónpunto (México).
TECHNICAL DETAILS<br />
Original Title<br />
Title (English)<br />
Year<br />
Directed by<br />
Written by<br />
Producer<br />
Prodution company<br />
Co-Production companies<br />
Date of World Release<br />
Date of Chilean release<br />
Recording format<br />
Projection format<br />
Aspect Ratio<br />
Sound<br />
Length<br />
Chilean Distributor<br />
La Nana<br />
The Maid<br />
2009<br />
Sebastián Silva<br />
Sebastián Silva<br />
Pedro Peirano<br />
Gregorio González<br />
<strong>Forastero</strong><br />
Diroriro (Chile)<br />
Tiburón Filmes (México),<br />
Puntoguiónpunto (México)<br />
Jan 17, 2009 (Sundance Film Festival)<br />
Aug 13, 2009<br />
DVCPRO HD (P2) 1080p 23.98fps<br />
35mm Color<br />
1.85:1<br />
Dolby Digital<br />
96 minutes<br />
Andes Films
SYNOPSIS<br />
Raquel, a bitter and introverted woman, has been<br />
the Valdés family’s maid for 23 years. One day<br />
Pilar, her mistress, hires another maid to help Raquel<br />
with her chores. Raquel, feeling her place in the<br />
family threatened, drives the new arrival away with<br />
cruel psychological abuse. This happens time and<br />
again, until Pilar hires Lucy, a merry girl from the<br />
countryside who has never worked as a maid before.<br />
It is Lucy who finally breaks the barrier Raquel has<br />
erected around herself.
DIRECTOR<br />
SEBASTIÁN SILVA<br />
Sebastián Silva (Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1979) is a multifacetic artist whose body of work<br />
includes painting, illustration and popular music.<br />
After attending a prestigious catholic school, he studied filmmaking at the Escuela de Cine de<br />
Chile for a year. He dropped out of film school and went off to Montreal to study animation,<br />
but eventually he wound up selling shoes. That same year, he made the first gallery exhibition<br />
of his illustrations and started a band called CHC (the band has recorded three albums).<br />
On his second illustration show, a man convinced him of seeking Spielberg himself to pitch him a project. He<br />
flew off to Hollywood. The mission was a failure.<br />
On his return he started two more musical projects, “Yaia” and “Los Mono”, the latter of which would be<br />
picked up for distribution by Sonic360 and published in the US and the UK.<br />
He got a new exhibition of his dr awings, this time in New York. While in the Big Apple he wrote with Pedro<br />
Peirano the screenplay for La Vida me Mata, his first feature film. Upon his return to Chile, he recorded a solo<br />
album and produced La Vida me Mata with local production company Fábula.<br />
After “La Vida Me Mata”, Silva wrote a screenplay about his trip to Hollywood, and then wrote The Maid (La<br />
Nana) with Pedro Peirano. The Maid was produced by Gregorio González immediately after the team finished<br />
the screenplay, in February 2008. On the second half of 2008 he wrote a new screenplay, “Second Child”,<br />
which is currently going into pre-production in New York with Lee Daniels as producer.
AWARDS<br />
Sundance Film Festival:<br />
Dramatic World Cinema Jury Prize<br />
Dramatic Special Jury Prize: Catalina Saavedra’s<br />
Acting<br />
Miami International Film Festival:<br />
Jury Special Mention<br />
Best Actress: Catalina Saavedra<br />
Jordan Alexander Ressler Prize : Best Script<br />
International Film Guide Inspiration Award<br />
Fribourg Film Festival:<br />
Talent Tape Award<br />
Sarasota Film Festival:<br />
Best Narrative Film<br />
Guadalajara Film Festival:<br />
FIPRESCI Prize<br />
Cartagena de Indias Film Festival:<br />
Specialized Critic Prize<br />
Best Actress Catalina Saavedra<br />
Off Plus Camera Film Festival, Poland:<br />
Cracow Film Award<br />
Transilvania Film Festival:<br />
Best acting prize to La Nana’s complete cast<br />
Art Museums Festivals:<br />
New Directors / New Films (MoMA, Lincoln Center,<br />
NY)<br />
Latin Wave, Houston Fine Arts Museum<br />
Paris Cinema Festival:<br />
Audience award<br />
Taipei Film Festival:<br />
Special Mention New Talent Competition<br />
3rd Audience Award Award<br />
Lima Film Festival:<br />
Best fiction film<br />
International Critic Awards<br />
Santa Cruz Film Festival:<br />
Best actress: Catalina Saavedra<br />
Biarritz Film Festival:<br />
French Critics Union Award<br />
Young Europeans Jury Awards<br />
Best Female Performance (Catalina Saavedra)<br />
Paraguay International Film Festival:<br />
Second prize Panambí Audience Award<br />
Valdivia Film Festival:<br />
Public Award: Best Chilean Movie<br />
Viña del Mar Film Festival:<br />
Public Award<br />
Best Actress: Catalina Saavedra<br />
Specializied Press Award<br />
Young Jury Award: Best Movie<br />
Huelva Film Festival:<br />
Golden “Colón”: Best Movie de Oro a la Mejor<br />
Película<br />
Silver “Colón”: Best Director<br />
Best Actress: Catalina Saavedra<br />
Turin International Film Festival:<br />
Best Actress : Catalina Saavedra<br />
Satellite Awards:<br />
Best feature film in foreign language (shared with<br />
“Broken Embraces”)<br />
Gotham Awards:<br />
Best Actress: Catalina Saavedra<br />
Nomination for Best Foreign Film in Golden Globes<br />
2010
CONTACT<br />
For further information, please contact:<br />
Gregorio González<br />
gregorio@forastero.cl
www.forastero.cl
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