Cielo is a Chilean-Canadian documentary film, directed by Alison McAlpine and released in 2017.[1] Filmed in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the film centres on the extraordinary beauty of the sky in the region, and its impact on the local population.[2]

Cielo
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Directed byAlison McAlpine
Written byAlison McAlpine
Produced byAlison McAlpine
Carmen Garcia
Sean Farnel
CinematographyBenjamin Echazarreta
Edited byAndrea Chignoli
Music byPhilippe Lauzier
Production
companies
Second Sight Pictures
Argus Films
Errante Producciones
Distributed bySeafar North
Release date
  • October 6, 2017 (2017-10-06) (NYFF)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesSpanish
English
French

The film premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2017,[1] and went into commercial release in 2018.[3]

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The film received four Prix Iris nominations at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, for Best Documentary Film, Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Benjamin Echazarreta), Best Sound in a Documentary (McAlpine, Andrés Carrasco, Miguel Hormazábal, Mauricio López, Rodrigo Salvatierra, Carlo Sanchez Farías and Claudio Vargas) and Most Successful Film Outside Quebec.[4]

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