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In August 2018 the producer and actor Pablo Díaz del Río made the project publicly known Assassination. From the offices of his production company in Recoleta, he told Third her plans to carry out a series based on the investigation that Carmen Frei undertook on the death of her father, Eduardo Frei Montalva, in 1982. In addition to having the support of the former DC senator, who gave her the rights to her homonymous book , Díaz pointed out that in history “more than the political issue I’m interested in the police, the human.”
Two years later the producer is directly confronted with politics, after for the second consecutive year the project was not awarded the CNTV fund in the edition that announced its winners two weeks ago (with the highest amount in its history, $ 4,585 million, and 299 projects in competition). As in 2019, Magnidicio it finished among the five finalists in the line Historical Series or Fictional Historical Documentaries; on both occasions it was ranked third in a contest that awards only the first two.
According to a letter that the director sent last night to president of the DC, Fuad Chahín, to members of its board of directors and senators and deputies of the community, one of the factors that resulted in the project not obtaining the fund was the vote of Genaro Arriagada, party member and councilor of the entity.
“It seems incomprehensible to us that Mr. Genaro Arriagada, as a member of the National Television Council, has not supported with his votes so that Assassination could count on the recognition of the CNTV “, says the letter, highlighting an “exhaustive investigative work”, obtaining a Corfo, the selection in the international market Filmarket Hub as one of the four Latin American series chosen and that both in 2019 and this year the CNTV evaluators have given “The highest qualification, leaving it in the fifth finalist of the contest.”
“Regardless of the criteria that Mr. Arriagada has personally defined for not supporting Assassination, we believe that This fact publicly compromises the credibility and consequence of the Christian Democratic Party in its constant fight against political violence and repression.. How is it possible to explain to public opinion that the PDC counselor has denied support for a project that reveals the figure of Frei Montalva and at the same time condemns the abuse of Human Rights? ”, The letter asks.
In the vote that took place in the Council session on August 27, Arriagada gave the lowest possible score to Díaz’s project. Of three preferences that the councilors can grant (from 3 to 1, all assignable only once despite the fact that there are five or more finalists), the former minister gave a 3 to a fiction located in rural Chile at the beginning of the 20th century (Cursed poems), a 2 to a production based on the life of Roberto Parra, and a 1 to Assassination. The remaining four votes that the series achieved – which reached a total of 13 points, one less than Cursed poems– corresponded to the maximum score (3), in this case of the directors Marcelo Segura, Mabel Iturrieta, María Constanza Tobar and Esperanza Silva.
The action of Pablo Díaz is based on the fact that in 2019 a very similar scenario occurred. Assassination had three maximum scores, and another pair corresponding to 2: one from Mabel Iturrieta and another from Arriagada. On that occasion, of course, it was somewhat further away from the next project that the fund did win: it obtained a total of 13 versus the 16 of Brave race, the second series that was awarded the historical line of the CNTV.
“I send you this information, with the aim that the Christian Democratic Party can reestablish a position consistent with its principles within the world of culture and within the National Television Council”, Concludes the director in his letter.
As previously detailed by Díaz, Assassination It is based on the research carried out by Carmen Frei. In the middle of its development, the series found that in January 2019 six sentences were handed down in the first instance for the death of the former president, classified as simple homicide.
Given this fact, Arriagada wrote a letter to El Mercurio in March 2019 in which he carefully analyzed the Frei Montalva case. In it, she stated that “the irregularity is surprising” about the autopsy, and that it was done in a place “that was not authorized for it”, adhering, as she said, to “what is stated in the sentence and I have.
Both Genaro Arriagada and Pablo Díaz declined to respond to La Tercera PM as of press time.
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