Evergreen Dry Forest
Walking between disenchantment and hope, we find Juan Carlos. A 47-year-old Cuban dedicated to collecting and reproducing a vanishing plant world. Following his acts of resistance, we witness the spread of vital alternatives in a wounded country and planet.
Producers: Pedro dos Santos
Director: Juan Pablo Donoso Alliende
Cinematography: Juan Pablo Donoso Alliende
Writer: N/A
Editing: Juan Pablo Donoso Alliende
Sound: Mariana Leão
Composer: N/A
Juan Pablo Donoso Alliende lives and works in Arica, Chile. His practice moves between documentary cinema, artistic research, and territorial practices, with a focus on the relationships between community, memory, and landscape in the Atacama Desert. He is the director of AricaDoc, a platform dedicated to documentary film training, creation, and circulation in northern Chile for over a decade. His current work also expands into drawing and sound as forms of situated research.