Form left to right: John Keenan, Robert Somerville, Bob Fulton and Felipe Bustos Sierra
The story of Scottish factory workers who refused to work on engines destined for Chilean fighter planes during the early years of the Pinochet regime, Nae Pasaran is a small film taking on a big topic. Since making it, director Felipe Bustos Sierra has uncovered a lot more of the story, and he’s trying to raise funds so he can create a feature length version. We caught up with him to find out more about his plans, about the hidden history he uncovered, and about how it all began.
“I first heard the story a long time ago, when I was kid,” he began. “I’m a filmmaker in Scotland and I had made three fiction shorts, so I was wanting to tell a story, to make a documentary for the Scottish Documentary Institute. Actually,...
The story of Scottish factory workers who refused to work on engines destined for Chilean fighter planes during the early years of the Pinochet regime, Nae Pasaran is a small film taking on a big topic. Since making it, director Felipe Bustos Sierra has uncovered a lot more of the story, and he’s trying to raise funds so he can create a feature length version. We caught up with him to find out more about his plans, about the hidden history he uncovered, and about how it all began.
“I first heard the story a long time ago, when I was kid,” he began. “I’m a filmmaker in Scotland and I had made three fiction shorts, so I was wanting to tell a story, to make a documentary for the Scottish Documentary Institute. Actually,...
- 5/8/2015
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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