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Henriquez Patricio
Once a director for Chilean television, Patricio Henriquez moved to Montreal in 1973 after the overthrow of the Allende government. After a first film made in Lebanon, Yasser Arafat et les Palestiniens (1980), he began working for television in Quebec, directing numerous news reports between 1980 and 1993.
In 1996 he co-founded the production company Macumba International. Committed to social and political causes, Henriquez has won more than 40 awards for his films, including the 1998 Best Television Documentary Award by the Société des auteurs multimédia (SCAM) in Paris for The Last Stand of Salvador Allende; the 2000 Jutra for Best Quebec Documentary for Images of a Dictatorship and three Gémeaux in 2001 and 2002 for the documentary series Living in the City and Extremis. His film Désobéir was selected to open the 2005 Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal.
In The Dark Side of the White Lady (2006), Patricio Henriquez continues to delve into the wounded past of his native country. His most recent NFB film is Under the Hood, a Voyage into the World of Torture (2008).
