To mark the occasion of the U.S. theatrical release of Chilean director Patricio Guzmán's The Cordillera of Dreams / La cordillera de los sueños, the curated streaming destination for documentaries and art-house films. OVID.tv has added Guzmán's documentary The Pearl Button / El botón de nacar to its platform. This marks the first time all the major films of "one of Latin America's most important directors of the 20th and 21st centuries" (Latin Life) are collected in one place and easily accessible for home viewing.
Guzmán’s films on OVID.tv include The Battle of Chile (1975), The Pinochet Case (2001), Salvador Allende (2004), and Nostalgia for the Light (2011). From The Battle of Chile, filmed in black and white, on 16mm film, in the midst of social upheaval and revolution, to Nostalgia for the Light, filmed with modern digital technology, filled with vibrant colors, poetic connections and introspection, Patricio Guzman's epic body of work is the unprecedented record of one country's journey and one filmmaker's evolution.
Born in Santiago de Chile in 1941, Guzmán is one of the leading documentary filmmakers in the world. He studied filmmaking at the Film Institute at the Catholic University of Chile, and at the Official School of Film in Madrid. After the 1973 Chilean coup Guzman left the country and has lived in Cuba, Spain and France, where he currently resides. Six of his films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, including The Battle of Chile, The Pinochet Case, Salvador Allende , and Nostalgia for the Light, for which he received the Grand Award from the European Film Academy in 2011.
Guzman's The Battle of Chile remains one of the most widely praised documentary films of all time, and was named "one of the 10 best political documentary films in the world" by Cineaste. His films have been extensively screened worldwide and he's been the subject of numerous film retrospectives, most recently at the British Film Institute, Harvard Film Archive, and BAMcinematek. In 2013, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
To stream Patricio Guzmán’s films visit Ovid.tv.
