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EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films has announced a return theatrical engagement for its Oscar-nominated documentary The Eternal Memory, beginning today and extending throughout the month of February. Maite Alberdi's film, a love story that Deadline has compared to the narrative features Amour and Doctor…

“Thank you for lighting a fire under my ass,” Kristen Stewart told Sundance’s Opening Night gala tonight. Related Stories Culture Sundance Film Festival 2024: Opening Night Gala, Film P…

The Eternal Memory chronicled the final years in the life of Chilean journalist Augusto Góngora. He died in June, five months after the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Director Maite Alberdi felt she not only captured his final years with wife Paulina Urrutia, but also the Chilean history…

The Sundance Institute on Wednesday unveiled details for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival's January 18 opening-night gala that kicks off the festival’s 40th edition. Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan will be honored with the first Sundance Institute Trailblazer Award, while Celine Song and Maite…

EXCLUSIVE: In the award-winning documentary The Eternal Memory, Paulina Urrutia reintroduces herself to her husband, the Chilean writer and television presenter Augusto Góngora, who knows her and yet doesn't know her, as a result of his Alzheimer's.  "I'm Augusto. And who are you?" smiling, he asks…

Augusto Góngora, the journalist, author and television host documented in the Sundance winning film The Eternal Memory, is being mourned in his native Chile after his death at 71. The film’s Oscar-nominated director, Maite Alberdi, confirmed to Deadline that Góngora succumbed to complications of…

Doctor Zhivago, Casablanca, Amour. Over the decades, cinema has produced some fictional love stories of enduring beauty and resonance. But for sheer emotional force, even those classics may not rival the true love story told in The Eternal Memory. Maite Alberdi's documentary, which made its…

MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to Sundance world-premiering love story The Eternal Memory, director Maite Alberdi's follow-up to Oscar nominated doc The Mole Agent. The price is said to be approaching $3 million in a competitive situation with a number of bidders. The film, which…

Maite Alberdi, whose The Mole Agent was Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary last year, will be among documentarians pitching projects at the 30th Forum co-production meeting of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. Running November 14-16, within the framework of IDFA, the Forum and its…

An 83-year-old man goes undercover in a nursing home in The Mole Agent, Chilean director Maite Alberdi's Oscar hopeful that's been shortlisted for both International Feature and Documentary. While it's filmed and scored in the style of a playful spy movie, it's most remarkable in its quieter moments, as the true heart…

UPDATED with video: Drawing attention to the colorful and challenging lives of the elderly, genre-bending The Mole Agent is a film that changed completely from initial concept to final product. "[It] started as a film noir documentary," director Maite Alberdi said during the film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders…

At the age of 83, Sergio Chamy got the opportunity of a long lifetime—the chance to go undercover to sleuth out possible skullduggery at an old folks home in his native Chile. The assignment would take all his observational skills and technical savvy. There was only one problem. "He was the worst spy in the world,"…