Felipe Bustos Sierra
Felipe Bustos Sierra | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer and editor |
| Years active | 2010-present |
Felipe Bustos Sierra is a Chilean-Belgian film director, producer and editor based in Scotland.[1] His debut feature-length documentary, Nae Pasaran (2018), won the Best Feature award at the 2018 British Academy Scotland Awards, where Bustos Sierra was also nominated for Best Director (Factual).[2] Bustos Sierra is also the founder and creative director of Debasers Filums, an independent film company based in Edinburgh and Glasgow.[3]
Early life[edit]
Bustos Sierra is the son of a Chilean journalist who was exiled to Belgium after the 1973 coup d'état.[4] As a child growing up in Brussels, Bustos Sierra attended Chilean solidarity meetings, where he first encountered the stories of Scottish Rolls-Royce plant workers in East Kilbride who, in solidarity with the people of Chile, boycotted servicing the country's fighter jets following the military coup. These stories formed the subject of Bustos Sierra's first feature film, Nae Pasaran.[4]
Bustos Sierra is an alumnus of the Eurodoc, Berlinale Talent Campus, the Independent Filmmaker Programme, and the EIFF Talent Lab.[1]
Career[edit]
In 2010, Bustos Sierra founded the independent film company Debasers Filums in Edinburgh, Scotland.[1] One of his early short films, Three-Legged Horses (2012), is based on his experiences as a rickshaw driver in Edinburgh.[5] The film was the first successfully crowdfunded film project in Scotland and went on to screen at over 100 international film festivals, on five continents, winning four awards.[6]
Bustos Sierra was commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute's Bridging the Gap scheme to make Nae Pasaran as a short film in 2013.[7] In March 2015, he launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to turn Nae Pasaran into a feature-length film.[8] The resulting documentary received critical acclaim and was nominated for Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards in 2018.[9] Bustos Sierra tells the story of the Scots workers who defied Pinochet from the Scottish side, and, following five months of research in Chile, from Chileans—both oppressors and oppressed.[10]
Filmography[edit]
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Tixeon (short) | Yes | Yes |
| 2012 | Three-Legged Horses (short) | Yes | Yes |
| 2012 | Five Six Seven Eight! (short) | Yes | Yes |
| 2013 | Nae Pasaran (short) | Yes | No |
| 2018 | Nae Pasaran | Yes | Yes |
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Felipe Bustos Sierra - Director/Producer". NAE PASARAN. 2018-06-01. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "British Academy Scotland Awards 2018: Winners Announced". www.bafta.org. 2018-11-04. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "Debasers Filums - Uplifting Scottish Films". www.debasers.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ a b Gilbey, Ryan (2018-11-01). "On your way, Pinochet! The factory workers who fought fascism from Glasgow". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ Lawer, Gosia (2014-03-17). "Interview with Felipe Bustos Sierra". B:Loft. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "Felipe Bustos Sierra - Director/Producer". NAE PASARAN. 2018-06-01. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
- ^ "Nae Pasaran - Feature". Scottish Documentary Institute. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "NAE PASARAN - an untold story of Chilean solidarity". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "Nae Pasaran · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards". BIFA · British Independent Film Awards. 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "Nae Pasaran on how Scottish workers defied Pinochet: The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
- ^ "Debasers Filums - Uplifting Scottish Films". www.debasers.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
External links[edit]
- Felipe Bustos Sierra on IMDb
- Debasers Filums Official Website