The short film “Bestia” directed and written by Hugo Covarrubias will compete in the category of Best Animated Short Film at the 94th edition of the Hollywood Academy Awards to be held on March 27 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
This is the second Chilean animated film to reach the Oscars, after the victory of “Historia de un oso” (2014) in the same category. The short film “Bestia” is a psychological thriller that tells about the dictatorship from the privacy of Ingrid Olderöck, a former Carabineros officer and member of the DINA who was accused of training dogs to rape political prisoners during the dictatorship.
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The film has no dialogue, has a duration of 15 minutes and uses the Stop Motion technique to tell the daily life of the main character.
“The short is an essay about evil, it ends up talking about a modified and disturbed mind, in the background broken because it was dedicated to breaking souls being hers also destroyed from even before birth. So it is to talk about a macabre society through this character occupying it as a device,” Hugo Covarrubias told El Mostrador in an interview.
In addition to the Oscar nomination, “Bestia” has been awarded at important international festivals such as Annecy (France), Chilemonos (Chile), Guasalajara (Mexico), Sundance (United States) and recently at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (France), accumulating about 30 awards.
Covarrubias’ film will compete in the same category with the short films “Affairs of the ar” (UK and Canada) by Joanna Quinn, “Robin Robin” (UK) by Michael Please and Dan Ojari, “Boxballet” (Russia) by Anton Dyakov and “The windshield wiper” (Spain and the US) by Alberto Mielgo.
