DIRECTION: Alfredo Pourailly
SCRIPT: Alfredo Pourailly, Francisco Hervé, Javiera Velozo
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alfredo Pourailly
PRODUCTION: Alfredo Pourailly, Annemiek Van Der Hell, Francisco Hervé
EDITING: Alfredo Pourailly, Javiera Velozo, Melisa Miranda
MUSIC: Karl Heortweard
Synopsis
It follows the story of a 60-year-old gold digger who has spent 40 years of his life searching for gold in Tierra del Fuego Island (Patagonia, Chile). His lonely life changes when he suffers a stroke and his young 20-year-old cowboy son starts taking care of him. Without any engineering knowledge, they decide to design and build a machine to harvest gold. It will help to ease the job and build a future of prosperity for both of them. The film intends to show how the struggle against death is always better when you share it.
Director of documentary films, documentary photographer, and master in Heritage. Producer and director of film, photography, and cultural management projects that 55 Sur Media develops for valuing, and disseminating the cultural, historical, and natural heritage of Chile. The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine is his debut film, premiered at Hot Docs 2024.
Filmography:
Alfredo Pourailly
2024 La fabulosa máquina de cosechar oro