Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva has been selected for the San Francisco Film Society’s seventh Artist in Residence program and will be in San Francisco February 14 – 28, 2014. Silva’s packed two-week schedule will include a screening of his film MAGIC MAGIC. MAGIC MAGIC is described as Silva’s gripping psychological thriller starring Juno Temple, Michael Cera and Emily Browning.
Sebastián Silva was born in Santiago, Chile in 1979. He studied filmmaking at the Escuela de Cine de Chile in Santiago and English at McGill University in Montreal, while pursuing his career as an artist and musician. His first feature film, Life Kills Me (La Vida Me Mata), was released in 2008, followed by The Maid in 2009, which won the World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Golden Globes Awards. Silva returned to Sundance in 2013 to premiere two new films, Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy (SFIFF 2013), where he won the World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic) for Crystal Fairy. He is currently in post-production on his latest feature, Nasty Baby, to be released in 2014.
Juno Temple stars in Sebastian Silva’s MAGIC MAGIC, playing February 20 at the Clay Theatre as part of the San Francisco Film Society’s Artist in Residence program.
About MAGIC MAGIC: If Alicia could just get some sleep, everything would be all right. As she and her cousin Sarah make their way through rural Chile with Sarah’s boyfriend, his sister, and their strange American friend Brink, Alicia’s insomnia slowly takes control. The difference between what is happening in reality and what is happening in her own mind becomes less and less clear to her. After she takes a stab at hypnosis to help solve the problem, things only get worse. As her waking nightmare continues, will her “friends” be her salvation or her downfall? Writer/director Sebastián Silva crafts an unsettling film that examines sexual repression and the fear of loss. With vivid characters in conflict, evocative landscapes, and Christopher Doyle and Glenn Kaplan’s fluid cinematography, Silva shows how the smallest choices we make can have significant and insurmountable consequences. — Mike Plante, Sundance Film Festival
Michael Cera stars in Sebastian Silva’s MAGIC MAGIC, playing February 20 at the Clay Theatre as part of the San Francisco Film Society’s Artist in Residence program.
Juno Temple stars in Sebastian Silva’s MAGIC MAGIC, playing February 20 at the Clay Theatre as part of the San Francisco Film Society’s Artist in Residence program.