TFI Network 2020
HENRI: THE LAST PIRATE follows Loti, the son of Henri Garcia, a French diver who decided to leave his European life behind and settle in Rapanui, Easter Island: the most isolated place in the world. For more than 30 years Henri documented his life on the island and shared a deep friendship with filmmaker Julian Fernandez’s father.
Director
Julián Fernández Prieto was born in Chile in 1981 and entered the world of film and documentary at a very young age. His father, also a documentary filmmaker, taught him how to develop life in front of the camera and to travel behind the lens through Chile and America. He studied Directing for Documentary Cinema at the School of Cinema of Chile.
Producer
Dominique Rammsy Sánchez is the executive producer and executor responsible for projects selected by an audiovisual fund in Chile. Sánchez is a producer for television programs and documentaries. She’s worked as a production assistant for ten years in different advertising production companies. She’s also worked as an assistant director on Chilean and foreign productions for film and television. She currently lives in Puerto Varas and works as executive producer of the cinema -1 Cine.
Cinematographer
Born in Santiago de Chile, Tomás Yovane studied cinema at the Chilean Film School from 2005 to 2009. Yovane then moved to Argentina to study Photography Direction at the National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC). He has worked on various film projects as Director and Director of Photography, in fiction feature films, video clips and documentaries.
Yovane’s cinematography credits include THE MARRIED MONK (France, 2008), MT2 (Chile, 2008), MAP TO TALK (Chile, 2010), WILKA SAPA (Chile, 2010), EN RESA TILL VÄRLDENS ÄNDE (Sweden, 2010), DAILY RADIOGRAPHS (Chile, 2012), NO FOURTH WALL - 36 PLOT´S KERMESSE (Germany, 2012), CALEIDOSCOPIO (Chile, 2013), and GRINGO ROJO (Chile, 2015). He is the director of photography on three projects currently in development: TAHITI NUIL (Chile), LA DIOSA (Chile), and HENRI: THE LAST PIRATE (Chile).