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A Chile-Venezuela

co-production

The myth of María Lionza, a deity of the Venezuelan jungle, merges with the experience of a migrant filmmaker yearning for her lost Goddess. Over two decades of filming, the movie reveals the facets of the fracture of the iconic Goddess statue amid a Caracas marked by acute political and social division.

Different eras come together to speak of a rupture that is not just that of a statue. It is the story of Venezuela and every Venezuelan who feels divided in  a war that never belonged to them. It is also the wound of those who live in the no place of a migrant life.

Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess, Maria Lionza, XimenaFilms

For years, guided by intuition and by the need to give voice to María Lionza, the Goddess of Venezuela, I began to document the debacle of her iconic statue. The incipient cracks that afflicted her, her rupture, her double becoming.


On the one hand, the Broken Goddess was sheltered at the Central University of Venezuela. On the other, the Mayor's Office of Caracas installed a replica in the same place that the original piece was.


After comings and goings, I concluded that telling her story was the excuse to understand my own wound, the rupture that inhabiting the non-place of a migrant life implies.


María Lionza gave me the strength to tell this story that is not only mine, it is also the story of my country and of every Venezuelan who feels divided, in the middle of a war that never belonged to her.

Deep in Venezuela lives the goddess María Lionza, capable of giving light and strength to whom ask for it. 


​​ "I promised to do this film to María Lionza if she gave me the strength every time I was in fear. Through an intimate dialogue between the deity and her devotees, this documentary is a personal offering and a way to give some sense to the statue's fracture in 2004, at a time of Venezuela's political upheaval. Now 19 years later, I look for putting this in perspective, this powerful mother figure of the people's religiosity of Venezuela."

Ximena Pereira

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The Team

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Direction and production

Ximena Pereira

Chilean/Venezuelan filmmaker.​

Independent director of short films, documentaries, and video art. Her short films have been selected for several international festivals such as Sundance and Montreal.​ Their short film "Espacio Moneda" won the best documentary short film award at the Mecal festival in Santiago, Chile.

 

She has worked on countless feature films and advertising as a script supervisor in Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile. ​​She directed many TV documentaries in Venezuela. Among her achievements is the creation of the Caracas Documentary Festival (Caracas Doc). In Santiago, she was the production manager for the Instituto Profesional ARCOS Film and Audiovisual School from 2012 to 2016. She also has taught in film schools from Caracas and Santiago.

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In co-production with:

CREACIONES ANIMADAS

Venezuelan company located in the city of Caracas, specialized in the production of animated shorts and features, and documentaries, production of events and virtual fairs on the "Web. It was founded by Carolina Dávila in 2009.

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Production

Carolina Dávila

Producer and director

She graduated in Biology from the Central University of Venezuela in 1990. She is the Director of the Documentary Film Festival, Caracas Doc since 2011. She has actively participated in film policies aimed at animated films in Venezuela. Co-founder of the Animated Collage collective. She directs the Production Company Crea.

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With the participation of

SALVAJE FILMS

Salvaje Films is a film production company founded in Caracas, during the year 2014 by the director and editor Daniel Paz Mireles and the producer and writer Aura Tampoa Lizardo. They made the short documentary films Ramasaya, Vestalia, Y La Intemperie. 

 

Since 2018, Salvaje Films has been based in Mexico City and has dedicated itself to content consulting, accompanying documentary projects in development, and fiction and documentary editing. Two of the company's most significant collaborative projects have been: Project Motherhood, directed by Lea Hanzelova & Michal Babinec and La Diosa Quebrada, directed by Ximena Pereira.

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Editing

Daniel Paz Mirelles

Documentary director and editor

 

He studied film editing at the ECAM, Madrid. Back in Venezuela, she edited the episodes of "Somos Tierra Fértil" directed by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos and Marianela Maldonado. 

Since 2018 she has lived in Mexico City, where she works as an editor of non-fiction series for streaming and TV platforms. She has participated in documentary projects such as: Project Motherhood, La Diosa Quebrada, Para Vivir: Pablo Milanés and the series Cruz Azul - Azul Celeste.

 

Director of several documentary short films with an international career.

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Main camera

Jackson Elizondo

Director and Director of Photography of numerous films.

 

Graduated in Photography and Camera Direction from INSAS, Brussels, Belgium in 2002. He was the director of photography for the Venezuelan part of the documentary “Venían a buscarme” by Alvaro de la Barra. AtlanticDoc Award. He directed the fiction short “Rueda Libre” that won the best short at the Barquisimeto Festival in Venezuela.

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Final credits song

Claudia Lizardo

Venezuelan singer-songwriter, leader of La Pequeña Revancha, a musical project that was born in 2013 as a duo with Juan Olmedillo. She is also passionate about innovative storytelling with more than 10 years of experience as a media creative and has worked as a creative writer for different media.

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Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía

The Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía - CNAC (National Autonomous Center for Cinematography) was created by the Venezuelan State according to the provisions of the National Cinematography Law of 1993, formally beginning its activities on August 1, 1994, replacing the former Cinematographic Promotion Fund ( foncine).

 

The CNAC is the governing body of the Film and Audiovisual Media Platform, and the main entity responsible for national film activity; we are in charge of managing the cinematographic activity, formulating policies and implementing actions aimed at stimulating, regulating and developing the audiovisual industry in Venezuela.

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Chiledoc

In 2014, the project received advisory from Wendy Levy, through the Sundance program for documentary film from Chiledoc.

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Femcine

“The Broken Goddess” wins Best Project 2016 at the DocLab Observatory at Femcine

Labex 5

The project participates in the Labex 5 laboratory in 2015

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Conecta

In 2018 "The Broken Goddess" participates in the Connect Regions Workshop with Maite Alberdi

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Docmontevideo

In 2018 the project receives advisory from Javier Corcuera and is presented to programmers of international documentary festivals in Docmontevideo Uruguay.

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Festivales

27th Malaga Film Festival

Official Selection

Spain - March 2024

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25th Hot Docs

Official Selection

Canada- April/May 2024

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Cinélatino

37es Rencontres de 

Toulouse

Official Selection

France - March 2025

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32nd SDLFF - San Diego Latino Film Festival

Official Selection

USA - March 2025

20 Venezuelan Film Festival

🏆 Best editing

      Venezuela - June 2024

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SPE Media

Festival

🏆 Best Multicultural Film

USA - March 2025

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CUMBE Film

Festival 

🏆 Special Mention

Venezuela - October 2024

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XIV Encuentro para

Cinéfagos

🏆 Best Venezuelan film

🏆 Best Production

   Venezuela - September 2024

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19th Documentary Film Festival IFF Won Together

Official Selection

Rusia - November 2024

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XXII Festival Internac.

de Documentales

Santiago Álvarez

Official Selection

Cuba - March 2025

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12 FIDBA

🏆 SIGNIS Award

in shortfilm

Argentina - October 2024

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11 Muestra de

Cortometrajes

A Corto Plazo

🏆 Special Mention

Vzla/France - March 2025

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20th Rengo International Film Festival

🏆 Special Mention

Chile - November 2024

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4th Folkestone

Documentary Festival

Official Selection

UK - October 2024

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15th Macau Short

Film Festival

Official Selection

China - December 2024

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15th Jaipur International Film Festival

Official Selection

India - January 2025

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3 Motriz Planaltina

Festival

Official Selection

Brazil - October 2024

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16th Seattle Latino

Film Festival

Official Selection

USA - October 2024

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2nd Habitar el Cine

Official Selection

Venezuela - July 2024

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CCS DOC

Opening film

Venezuela - July 2024

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14 Entre largos y

cortos Festival

Official Selection

Venezuela - September 2024

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5 Cortos en Grande

Festival

Showcase Focus Venezuela

Chile - November 2024

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17th Istambul 

Documentary Days

Official Selection

Türkiye- June 2024

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6 El Grito

Fantastic Film Festival

Official Selection

Venezuela - October  2024

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27th Cine las Americas International Film Fest.

Official Selection

USA - May 2025

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2025 LASA INT. FILM FESTIVAL

🏆 LASA Award of Merit in Film

USA - May 2025

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2025 MELBOURNE

INT. FILM FESTIVAL

Official Selection

Australia - June 2025

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2025 FICC

Official Selection

Ecuador - June 2025

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FILMS OF THE FUTURE FESTIVAL

Official Selection

USA/CANADA/CHILE

June 2025

17th Istambul 

Documentary Days

Official Selection

Türkiye- June 2024

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XimenaFilms
Creaciones Animadas
Salvaje Films
CNAC Centro Nacional Autónomo de de Cinematografía

Technical Specs

Project Title  La Diosa Quebrada
English Title: The Broken Goddess

Country of production: Chile/Venezuela
Year of production: March 2024

Length: 21 minute
Genre: Art, politics and society, migration, women's cinema, autobiography.

Final format: Full HD
Shooting format: MDV-HD
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Color: color
Sound: 5.1
Locations: Caracas, Venezuela.  Montaña de Sorte, Venezuela. Santiago, Chile
Original language: Spanish
Subtitles: English

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