Director: Miguel Littin
Producers: Miguel Littin, Walter Lima, Ioan Littin
Screenplay: Miguel Littin
Cinematographer: Ioan Littin
Editor: Andrea Yaconi
Music: Juan Cristobal Meza
Principal Cast: Benjamin Vicuna, Bertrand Duarte, Pablo Krogh, Cristian de la Fuente

September 1973. A group of former Allende´s ministers and authorities are held prisoner and taken to Dawson Island, a seclusion reclusion camp located in the Magellan Strait. Cristián de la Fuente plays a tough army officer in charge of this group of State prisoners. Benjamín Vicuña is Sergio Bitar, a former minister who wrote the book Isla 10 after he was liberated with the help of the UN and Red Cross among others. Chilean director Miguel Littin (two nominations at the Oscars for Best Foreign Motion Picture) based his story on this bestseller, following the path of these men who lived months of seclusion, sadness, and uncertainty at the most southern concentration camp in the world. Here their bonds grew, as did their memories and testimonies of history.

 

Isla Dawson, situada en el Estrecho de Magallanes, que forma parte del archipiélago de Tierra del Fuego, servía como campamento de la Armada chilena. Sin embargo, el golpe de Estado del 11 de septiembre de 1973 cambió para siempre su historia, al convertirse en uno de los campos de presos políticos que se establecieron a lo largo del país, y en concreto en el centro de reclusión más importante de la dictadura chilena. Cerca de 400 detenidos llegaron a esta isla, entre ellos una treintena de ministros y colaboradores del entonces Presidente de Chile, Salvador Allende. Entre los detenidos se encontraba el actual ministro de Obras Públicas, Sergio Bitar, quien escribió el libro “Dawson, isla 10”, obra en la que se basa la película de Littin.

Miguel Littin has led an exceptional life as creator of a filmography full of landmarks in the history of Latin American cinematography. He has been consistently committed to an authentic vision of Chilean characters and issues, using an original, beautiful and immensely appreciated language. The national and international critics have valued his work in several festivals and have nominated him for the Palme d’Or in Cannes and for the Oscar on two occasions. Dawson, Isla 10 has been selected for a number of international film festivals and was nominated for Best Latin American Film at the Spanish Goya awards.

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