''Santiago Files'', directed by Cetywa Powell, is a feature-length

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

about

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until Death of Salvador Allende, his death in 1973 Chilean coup d'état, 1973. As a ...

's topple from Chile's unstable government and the players in his downfall: the CIA, Chile's military, and Allende himself.

Malcolm McDowell Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor. He first became known for portraying Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's ''if....'' (1968), a role he later reprised in ''O Lucky Man!'' (1973) and ''Britannia Hospital ...

narrates the film, which premiered in September 2011. The documentary is in the permanent collection of the American Documentary Film Festival's archives (AmDocs), housed at the Rancho Mirage Library in Palm Springs.

Film festivals, screenings, and availability

* American Documentary Film Festival's Archives (AmDocs), Rancho Mirage Public Library, Palm Springs (June 2013) * Humanity Explored Film Festival (December 2012) * Santa Cruz Film Festival (May 2012) * Landmark Theatres Nuart (October 2011) *International Crime And Punishment Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey (September 23–30, 2011)Unknown
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Subject matter

CIA documents on Salvador Allende were released to the public in 2000. ''Santiago Files'' tells its story through CIA documents, taped conversations with Richard Nixon discussing Allende, interview clips with former Director of the CIA,

Richard Helms Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) was an American government official and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Ser ...

, interview clips with Henry Kissinger, and interview clips with Salvador Allende. "The most memorable conclusion I can recall from the film antiago Files was that Allende had been a leader – and whenever a leader arises in Latin America, the US finds a way to get rid of him. We played a role, but the Chileans made this happen. We invested $10 million in supporting opposition groups and media. Even in that time, it wasn't very much. The fact is that after the decisions he made in the first year, time was not on his side. Unless he could control his own coalition – which he couldn't – the downward cycle was just going to continue." - Judd L. Kessler (Regional Legal Advisor at the U.S. Embassy, 1970–1973)

Contributors

Ariel Dorfman Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean- American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American s ...

, Chilean author and playwright, Salvador Allende's cultural advisor (1970–1973) *

Isabel Allende Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as '' The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

, Chilean author, Salvador Allende's niece * Judd L. Kessler, Regional Legal Advisor at the US Embassy in Chile (1970–1973)

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 1430115, Santiago Files *
"NBC News in Turkey releases festival line-up of films" - MSNBC - the ICAP film festival news, Turkey

* ttp://forbookssake.net/collection/isabel-allende/ Isabel Allende - For Books' Sake
Illustrator Vince Bank's storyboards (animation sequences)

Animator Jon Miller's website, www.33d3sign

American documentary films 2011 films Documentary films about Latin American military dictatorships Cultural depictions of Salvador Allende Documentary films about historical events Political history of Chile Chile–United States relations 2010s English-language films 2010s American films English-language documentary films