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.


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.

Making off, Tras cámaras, La Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess, XimenaFilms, Claqueta

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Making off, Tras cámaras, La Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess, XimenaFilms, Claqueta
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

The Team

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Festivales

27th Malaga Film Festival
Official Selection
Spain - March 2024

25th Hot Docs
Official Selection
Canada- April/May 2024

Cinélatino
37es Rencontres de
Toulouse
Official Selection
France - March 2025

32nd SDLFF - San Diego Latino Film Festival
Official Selection
USA - March 2025

20 Venezuelan Film Festival
🏆 Best editing
Venezuela - June 2024

SPE Media
Festival
🏆 Best Multicultural Film
USA - March 2025

3 CUMBE Film
Festival
🏆 Special Mention
Venezuela - October 2024

XIV Encuentro para
Cinéfagos
🏆 Best Venezuelan film
🏆 Best Production
Venezuela - September 2024

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

12 FIDBA
🏆 SIGNIS Award
in shortfilm
Argentina - October 2024

11 Muestra de
Cortometrajes
A Corto Plazo
🏆 Special Mention
Vzla/France - March 2025

20th Rengo International Film Festival
🏆 Special Mention
Chile - November 2024

4th Folkestone
Documentary Festival
Official Selection
UK - October 2024

15th Macau Short
Film Festival
Official Selection
China - December 2024

15th Jaipur International Film Festival
Official Selection
India - January 2025

3 Motriz Planaltina
Festival
Official Selection
Brazil - October 2024

16th Seattle Latino
Film Festival
Official Selection
USA - October 2024

2nd Habitar el Cine
Official Selection
Venezuela - July 2024

CCS DOC
Opening film
Venezuela - July 2024

14 Entre largos y
cortos Festival
Official Selection
Venezuela - September 2024

5 Cortos en Grande
Festival
Showcase Focus Venezuela
Chile - November 2024

17th Istambul
Documentary Days
Official Selection
Türkiye- June 2024

6 El Grito
Fantastic Film Festival
Official Selection
Venezuela - October 2024

27th Cine las Americas International Film Fest.
Official Selection
USA - May 2025

2025 LASA INT. FILM FESTIVAL
🏆 LASA Award of Merit in Film
USA - May 2025

2025 MELBOURNE
INT. FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
Australia - June 2025

2025 FICC
Official Selection
Ecuador - June 2025

FILMS OF THE FUTURE FESTIVAL
Official Selection
USA/CANADA/CHILE
June 2025
17th Istambul
Documentary Days
Official Selection
Türkiye- June 2024

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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