Christopher Murray was born in 1985 in Santiago.
Director of the feature film "Manuel de Ribera" released at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2010 and winner of the award for "Best National Film" at SANFIC 2010.
He is co-founder of the documentary project "MAFI - Mapa Fílmico de un País" (www.
mafi.
tv), premiered internationally at IDFA 2012.
General Director of the collective documentaries "Propaganda" (2014) and "God" (2019) both premiered and awarded at the Visions du Réel festival.
He is the director and scriptwriter of the feature film "The Blind Christ" with which he competed for the Golden Lion in the Official Competition of the Venice Film Festival 2016 and winner of the International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI) at FICCI 2017.
He is also the creator and head of the program of the new Diploma in Anthropology and Audiovisual Creation at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
In 2019, a nationwide movement forms in Chile to create a new constitution. For three years, the film accompanies indigenous, feminist, militant, legalistic, anarchist and conservative activists. A timely large-scale canvas of democratic protest.
In 2010, 81 inmates died in a huge fire at San Miguel prison in Chile’s capital city Santiago. Inside, they were trapped behind bars like rats; outside, dozens of family members waiting for visiting hours to begin looked on helplessly as their loved ones shouted for help. The doors remained locked. This reconstruction sheds light on the utter failure of the prison’s administration, which was housing twice as many prisoners as permitted.
In a country at the world's end, the highest authority of the Catholic Church lands. The Pope comes to bring the word of God, but Chile awaits him with the most important religious crisis in its history.
Follows the trail of taxidermic pieces collected by The Manchester Museum during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Michael believes he experienced a divine revelation in the desert when he was a child. His neighbors are incredulous and take him for the town fool ever since. One evening, he gets news that a childhood friend was badly hurt in an accident in a remote village. Michael decides to drop everything to go on a barefoot pilgrimage through the Chilean desert in order to cure his friend with a miracle, a voyage that will traverse the blind desperation of a society in need of faith.
Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to find out what is purely cinematographic in what they film. These conversations are related to images in the director's personal archive, as if what is truly cinematographic was found among bits that were never made for the screen.
PROPAGANDA is a follow up to the 2013 presidential campaign, in the midst of major social unrest in recent years. A single-car caravan crossing the desert, a protest flag covers the entire Alameda a candidate copuchea surveys on a dressing room. PROPAGANDA proposes a visual journey through the most extraordinary places of election, inviting reflection on the complex relationship between politicians and citizens, through the eyes of several filmmakers in the country.
Jerónimo is an antisocial local man who rents rooms in his home to expats so he can snoop around their belongings. One day Sanna arrives, a girl who will change Jerónimo’s life. They start getting closer until Jerónimo discovers that Sanna is hiding something in his house.
In front of a lost fishing cove in the south of Chile, there is an uninhabited island. One afternoon, a precarious boat approaches its shores with a man: it is Manuel Ribera, who comes to occupy the land he has just inherited. With no job, no family and no money, he has come with the conviction that he will finally be able to build something for which he will finally feel like an owner.