Dogwoof has announced multiple all-rights sales for The Eternal Memory by Maite Alberdi (Oscar®-nominated The Mole Agent). The film, which was the runner-up for the Berlinale Panorama Audience Award (Documentary), screens this week at CPH:DOX.
Sales confirmed for The Eternal Memory include: Edge Entertainment (Nordics), Madman (ANZ), Sherry Media (Canada), I Wonder Pictures (Italy), BTeam Pictures (Spain), Periscoop (Benelux), Atnine Film (South Korea), Synca (Japan), LEV (Israel), and Restart (Former Yugoslavia).
Dogwoof partnered with MTV Documentary Films soon after the Sundance premiere to represent the film for international sales.
The Eternal Memory is a Micromundo and Fabula production, directed and produced by Maite Alberdi, and produced by Juan De Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, and Rocío Jadue. It is executive produced by Marcela Santibañez, Daniela Sandoval, Nicholas Hooper, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Chandra Jessee, and Rebecca Lichtenfeld.
The Eternal Memory follows Augusto and Paulina who have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years ago, Augusto was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and his wife has since become his caretaker. As one of Chile’s most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters, Augusto is no stranger to building an archive of memory, having been responsible for that Herculean task following the Pinochet dictatorship and its systematic erasure of collective consciousness. Now he turns that work to his own life, trying to hold on to his identity with the help of his beloved.
The project marks the second collaboration between Dogwoof and Alberdi, having represented The Mole Agent for international sales before it was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature in 2021.
An Academy Award® Nominated Director and Producer, Alberdi is the first Chilean woman to be nominated at the Academy Awards. In 2011 she released her first feature film, The Lifeguard. Through Micromundo, her production company, she directed her second film Tea Time, which has won more than 12 international awards, and was nominated for the 2016 Goya for Best Ibero-American Film. In 2016 she released the short film I’m Not from Here, nominated for the European Films Award and also premiered her third feature film The Grown-Ups that got 10 international awards. At Sundance 2020, she premiered The Mole Agent, the first Chilean documentary to be nominated at the Academy Awards®.
