In the prelude to the 20th century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, a violent, unforgiving place, to photograph the wedding of a powerful landowner named Mr. Porter. His future wife, still a child, becomes an obsession for Pedro. In an attempt to capture her beauty he betrays the forces of power that dominate these lands. His betrayal is discovered and he is punished. Unable to escape, Pedro is instead forced to become a complicit participant in a new society being built through the genocide of the Selknam people.
Title: Blanco en Blanco
International Title: White on White
Genre: Historical Drama
Length: 100 min.
Shooting Format: HD
Screening Format: DCP
Country of Production: Spain · Chile
Original Language: Spanish· English
Subtitles: Spanish · English
Produced by: El Viaje Films · Don Quijote Films
Production year: 2018
Release year: 2019
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1:37.1
Sound: Dolby 5.1
Director: Théo Court
Writers: Théo Court, Samuel M. Delgado
Production: Jose A. Alayón (El Viaje Films), Marina Alberti (El Viaje Films), Giancarlo Nasi (Don Quijote Films)
Cinematography by: Jose A. Alayón
Editor: Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Sound Design: Carlos E. García
Music: Jonay Armas
Casting: Alfredo Castro, Lars Rudolph, Lola Rubio
- 76 th. Venice International Film Festival | Orizzonti (Italy, 2019)
- Busan International Film Festival (South Korea 2019)
- Viennale International Film Festival (Austria, 2019)
- Gijón International Film Festival (Spain, 2019)
- La Habana International Film Festival (Cuba, 2019)
- Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands, 2020)
- El Gouna Film Festival (Egypt, 2019)
- Film Fest Gent (Belgium, 2019)
- Venice in Naples (Italy, 2019)
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece, 2019)
- Minsk IFF Listapad (Belarus, 2019) | Special Jury Award
- Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan, 2019)
- Márgenes Festival (Spain, 2019)
- International Film Festival of India, Goa (Goa, 2019)
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival (California, 2020)
- Groningen IFFR (Netherlands, 2020)
- Glasgow Film Festival (Scotland, 2020)
- FICUNAM (México, 2020) | Special Jury Mention
- Vilnius International Film Festival (Lithuania, 2020)
- Istambul Film Festival (Turkey, 2020)
- Shanghai International Film Festival (China, 2020)
- Motovun Film Festival (Croatia, 2020)
- New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival (Russia, 2020) | Jury Award
- Cinespaña Toulouse (France, 2020)
- PUPC Lima Film Festival (Perú, 2020) | Best Direction | Special Jury Mention | Best Fiction Film | Special Mention Best Cinematography
- SANFIC Santiago International Film Festival (Chile, 2020) | Special Direction Mention
- FICCI Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 2020)
- Haifa International Film Festival (Israel, 2020)
- FICViña Viña del Mar International Film Festival (Chile, 2020) | Best Latin American Fiction Film | Critics’ Award | FEISAL Award
- Costa Rica Internacional Film Festival (Costa Rica, 2020)
- AFI Latin American Film Festival (Maryland, 2020)
- New Horizons International Film Festival (Poland, 2020)
- Wisconsin Film Festival (Wisconsin, 2020)
- Cine Ceará Ibero-American Film Festival (Brazil, 2020) | Best Director | Best Original Soundtrack | Best Sound | Best Art Direction
- Mostra de Cinema de América Latina – Casa América Latina Portugal (Portugal, 2020)
- San Francisco Latino Film Festival (California, 2020)
- Oslo Films From the South Festival (Norway, 2020)
- Uruguay International Film Festival (Uruguay, 2021)
- San Diego Latino Film Festival (California, 2021)
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria IFF (Spain, 2021)
- CINÉLATINO Bergen Film Festival (Norway, 2021)
- FICCI Interruptus (Colombia, 2021)
- Images Hispano-Américaines d’Annecy (France, 2021)
- Moro Spanish Film Festival (Spain, 2021)
- RIFFA | Regina International Film Festival and Awards (Canada, 2021)
- Festival Internacional de Cine de las Alturas (Argentina, 2021) | Best Cinematography
- La Serena International Film Festival (Chile, 2021)
- Festival FILMAR en América Latina (Switzerland, 2021)
- Festival de Cine Global Dominicano (Dominican Republic, 2022)
- Houston Latino Film Festival (Texas, 2022)
When I first saw the photographs of a massacre of the Selknam people perpetrated by Julius Popper in Tierra del Fuego, I was filled with questions: Who took this photograph? Who took part, as an unseen voyeur, in these events? The land was the next thing that caught my attention: an area full of vast, infinite plains, a site marked by barbarism and survival in extreme conditions. Absentee landlords who financed the forceable settlement of colonies, the intrinsic barbarity of an organized and legitimatized “modern” society. Within this universe I attempted to create a way of representing this uncomfortable, contradictory, and disturbing grey area.
Théo Court
