Cielo | |
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Directed by | Alison McAlpine |
Written by | Alison McAlpine |
Produced by | Alison McAlpine Carmen Garcia Sean Farnel |
Cinematography | Benjamin Echazarreta |
Edited by | Andrea Chignoli |
Music by | Philippe Lauzier |
Production companies | Second Sight Pictures Argus Films Errante Producciones |
Distributed by | Seafar North |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages | Spanish English French |
Cielo is a Chilean-Canadian documentary film, directed by Alison McAlpine and released in 2017.[1] Filmed in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the film centres on the extraordinary beauty of the sky in the region, and its impact on the local population.[2]
The film premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2017,[1] and went into commercial release in 2018.[3]
The film received four Prix Iris nominations at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, for Best Documentary Film, Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Benjamin Echazarreta), Best Sound in a Documentary (McAlpine, Andrés Carrasco, Miguel Hormazábal, Mauricio López, Rodrigo Salvatierra, Carlo Sanchez Farías and Claudio Vargas) and Most Successful Film Outside Quebec.[4]