Marianne Teleki & Hector Salgado
Mariane Teleki creció en el área de la Bahía de San Francisco, en México y Brasil. Trabajó como productora para la Televisión nacional de Chile. Circunstancias especiales recibió financiamiento de la Latino Public Broadcasting, Pacific Pioneer Fund y Fleishhacker Foundation y es su debut como directora. También trabajó como asistente de producción de Carlos Bolado, Mike Pryfogle y Stephen Most en The Klamath River. Es miembro de la Asociación Bay Area Women en Cine y Televisión(BAWIFT), Film Arts (FAF) and the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC).

MARIANNE TELEKI. Director/Producer, was raised in the Bay Area, Mexico and Brazil. Marianne worked as a field producer for Television Nacional de Chile. Special Circumstances, Marianne's directorial debut, received funding from Latino Public Broadcasting in 2004 and 2005. Her project has also received funding from the Pacific Pioneer Fund and Fleishhacker Foundation among others and is being produced in association with the Katahdin Foundation. She has also worked as a production assistant with Carlos Bolado, Mike Pryfogle and Stephen Most on The Klamath River and Finn Taylor on Cherish. She is a member of Bay Area Women in Film and Television (BAWIFT), Film Arts (FAF) and the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC).

Filmografía / Filmography:
Cinrcunstancias Especiales / Special Cinrcumnstances. 2006

Festivals and awards:
Mejor edición/ Best editing. Festival Cine Ceara, Brasil. 2008
Mejor Documental / Best Documentary. Festival Internacional de Cine Digital, Viña del Mar, Chile. 2008
Premio especial del Jurado / Special Jury Prize. Festival Internacional de Documentales (FIDOCS) Santiago, Chile. 2007
Mejor documental / Best documentary. Festival de Cine Social y Derechos Humanos CINE OTRO, Valparaiso, Chile. 2008
Mejor Director Local / Best local director. San Francisco Latino Film Festival. 2007
Mejor Documental / Best Documentary. Berkeley Film and Video Festival. 2007

Críticas/Reviews:
Periódico Siete Días. Chile
San Francisco Chronicle
Mother Jones: Encounters with the Torturer.
Mother Jones: Will Pinochet's Henchmen be Brought to Justice?
Análisis a fondo
Rebelión

Quotes

"Marianne Teleki is a sensitive and talented filmmaker who has been able to record in Salgado's personal tragedy, the troubles of a country under a brutal dictatorship….”
-Isabel Allende, Author

“Héctor Salgado is one of 35,000 Chileans who were incarcerated and tortured by Pinochet’s dictatorship. After many years of exile in the US he decides to return to Chile with a camera to show the world the face of his perpetrators. A dozen cowardly military officers appear before us incapable of explaining or take responsibility for their acts. This documentary, sincere and direct, gives audiences around the world a lesson in political memory. I ask myself what would have happened if each one of us 35,000 political prisoners would have done the same as Héctor. Surely we would have a much better democracy than the one we have today.”
-Patricio Guzmán, Documentary Filmmaker- BATTLE OF CHILE, CASE OF PINOCHET

“Special Circumstances is a moving first-hand account of one victim’s reencounter with his torturers. It converts a national tragedy into a compelling personal history. Juxtaposing past and present, it brings home the personal costs of political conflict in ways that history lessons rarely do.”
-Gwen Kirkpatrick, Professor, Georgetown University

Bajar/Download Electronic Press Kit
Dossier de prensa en PDF (Español)
Press release in PDF (English)

Películas en nuestro catálogo/Films in our catalog:
Circunstancias especiales (Special Circumstances)