Gian Godoy

Film director

1966 –

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Who is Gian Godoy?

Gian Godoy RIBA Part 1 is a Chilean filmmaker and artist who is based in London, United Kingdom, although he also maintains a base in Antofagasta, Chile.

In 2008 Godoy launched the Animas Project at the Museo Histórico Nacional in Santiago: 200 works of art to commemorate 200 years of Chile's independence. In 2009 the sculpture La Quintrala was inaugurated at the Museo de Santiago, Casa Colorada, with a new launch of Animas at the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. His latest sculpture, Catimbano, made with copper cathodes from Chuquicamata mine, was inaugurated at the Museo Desierto de Atacama in Antofagasta. Godoy premiered his Animas film Hain at the AVIFF 2011 in Cannes, France. Co-founder of architectural group Waka Pacha with architect Luis Contreras.

His first film, The Three Dumas aka The Story of The Count of Monte Cristo, was produced in collaboration with filmmaker Esther Anderson under the banner of Trenhorne Films. It was a dramatised documentary about novelist Alexandre Dumas and his ancestors: the grandson of a French planter and an African slave, Dumas overcame all the obstacles of prejudice to become a role model of contemporary literature. The avant-premiere of The Three Dumas took place in 2005 in France in Villers-Cotterets, birthplace of Dumas, to coincide with the inauguration of a statue of Dumas himself in the presence of the French Minister of Culture. The French actress Maria Schneider played the role of Dumas's mother. The UK premiere took place in 2007 at the Museum of London Docklands, coinciding with the inauguration of the new Sugar and Slavery Gallery during the bicentenary commemorations of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807. Other screenings around the world include the British Film Institute, Canadian Museum of Civilization, McCord Museum, Massachusetts Historical Society, McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, University of Leeds, University of Nottingham, University of Birmingham, Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, V&A, and an Official Selection at the Portobello Film Festival.

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