Bestia (2021 film)

The main character is inspired by Íngrid Olderöck, a police major and DINA agent during the Chilean military dictatorship, responsible for human rights violations in that period.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnnchile.com/cultura/cortometraje-chileno-bestia-preseleccionado-oscar_20211222/|title=Cortometraje chileno "Bestia" es preseleccionado en los premios Oscar 2022|website=CNN Chile|date=December 22, 2021|accessdate=February 7, 2022|language=es}} According to Covarrubias, the objective of the film is not a biography of Olderöck but:{{Cite web|last=Herrera|first=Francisca|date=July 29, 2021|title=Bestia: un cortometraje que va más allá de la historia que todos conocemos|url=https://solomonos.com/magazine/2021/07/29/bestia/|url-status=live|access-date=February 13, 2022|website=solomonos.com|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102210715/https://solomonos.com/magazine/2021/07/29/bestia/ |archive-date=2022-01-02 }}

{{Blockquote|text=A visit to her secret life, her relationship with her dog, her fears and frustrations, which are ultimately the x-ray of a country that is fractured, a country that it is full of wounds that are not even close to healing yet.|author=Covarrubias on the film's topic|source=Solomonos}}

The film screened at the 2021 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where it competed in the Short Films section and won the Festival Connexion Award.

Bestia is the third animated short film directed by Hugo Covarrubias, after El almohadón de pluma (2007) and La noche boca arriba (2012).{{Cite web|last=Chilemonos|first=Festival|date=February 13, 2022|title=Bestia - Estreno nacional|url=https://chilemonos.cl/web2021/bestia/|url-status=live|website=chilemonos.cl|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102210716/https://chilemonos.cl/web2021/bestia/ |archive-date=2022-01-02 }} The idea arose with the intention of addressing part of the history of Chile "with lesser-known characters, less official and darker".{{Cite web|last=Becerra|first=Abril|date=July 27, 2022|title=Hugo Covarrubias, director del cortometraje Bestia: "Los festivales de cine todavía tienen que interesarse más por la animación"|url=https://radio.uchile.cl/2021/07/27/hugo-covarrubias-director-del-cortometraje-bestia-los-festivales-de-cine-todavia-tienen-que-interesarse-mas-por-la-animacion/|url-status=live|access-date=February 13, 2022|website=radio.uchile.cl|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728002232/https://radio.uchile.cl/2021/07/27/hugo-covarrubias-director-del-cortometraje-bestia-los-festivales-de-cine-todavia-tienen-que-interesarse-mas-por-la-animacion/ |archive-date=2021-07-28 }} Although the original objective was to produce an animated series, Covarrubias decided to focus on one of those stories to make a unitary short film.{{Cite web|date=February 13, 2022|title="Bestia" Revisitando la historia a través del Stop-Motion|url=https://www.chileananimation.cl/bestia/|url-status=live|website=www.chileananimation.cl|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618012729/https://www.chileananimation.cl/bestia/ |archive-date=2021-06-18 }}

The technique used was stop motion animation, which was done by Covarrubias and Matías Delgado. The design of the protagonist was based on the aesthetics of porcelain dolls, to convey the inexpressiveness and coldness of the character. The character was created with polyurethane resin bathed in crystal resin, to give her face a texture similar to ceramic. Meanwhile, the sets and decorations were made with different opaque cardboards to create a contrast with the brightness of the resin.{{Cite web|last=Bogolasky|first=Galia|date=November 17, 2021|title=ANTOFACINE Entrevista a director de "Bestia", Hugo Covarrubias: "Siempre he pensado que todos tenemos alguna historia para contar"|url=https://culturizarte.cl/antofacine-entrevista-a-director-de-bestia-hugo-covarrubias-yo-siempre-he-pensado-que-todos-tenemos-alguna-historia-para-contar/|url-status=live|access-date=February 13, 2022|website=culturizarte.cl|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117210300/https://culturizarte.cl/antofacine-entrevista-a-director-de-bestia-hugo-covarrubias-yo-siempre-he-pensado-que-todos-tenemos-alguna-historia-para-contar/ |archive-date=2021-11-17 }}

The short film was produced by Tevo Díaz, through the company Trébol 3, while Cecilia Toro worked as a costume designer and art producer. Its financing came from the "Audiovisual Development Fund" of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage of Chile.{{Cite web|last=El Mostrador|date=December 27, 2021|title="Bestia", el premiado corto chileno, se instala en la carrera de los Oscar|url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2021/12/27/bestia-el-premiado-corto-chileno-se-instala-en-la-carrera-de-los-oscar/|url-status=live|access-date=February 13, 2022|website=El Mostrador|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227164446/https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2021/12/27/bestia-el-premiado-corto-chileno-se-instala-en-la-carrera-de-los-oscar/ |archive-date=2021-12-27 }}

• Independent animation
• Arthouse animation
• Cinema of Chile

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• [https://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/bestia-how-a-true-life-story-of-torture-and-evil-was-turned-into-an-oscar-nominated-stop-motion-film-214137.html Cartoon Brew article about said film]
• [https://vimeo.com/558189701 Official trailer]

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Category:2021 films

Category:2021 animated short films

Category:2020s stop-motion animated films

Category:Best Animated Short Subject Annie Award winners

Category:Chilean animated short films

Category:2020s Spanish-language films

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