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MTV Documentary Films is making its Oscar-nominated documentary The Eternal Memory available for free on YouTube through the rest of the month.
The film, winner of the Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film and the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival among many other awards, earned director Maite Alberdi the second Oscar nomination of her career. The Chilean filmmaker was nominated in 2021 for her documentary feature The Mole Agent.
“The Eternal Memory tells a profound and moving love story that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond,” notes a release about the film. “Augusto and Paulina have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years ago, their lives were forever changed by Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. As one of Chile’s most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters, Augusto is no stranger to building an archive of memory. Now he turns that work to his own life, trying to hold on to his identity with the help of his beloved Paulina, whose own pre-eminence as a famous actress and Chilean Minister of Culture predates her ceaselessly inventive manner of engaging with her husband.”
The release continues, “Day by day, the couple face this challenge head-on, relying on the tender affection and sense of humor shared between them that remains, remarkably, fully intact.”
Deadline spoke with Alberdi shortly after the Oscar nominations were announced. “It’s a film that when people see it, they get involved [emotionally],” she observed, adding that her first call after hearing the news of the nomination was to Paulina.
“She was crying. She was very emotional,” Alberdi said, “and she felt that Augusto would be super happy with this as a filmmaker [himself] too.”
The Eternal Memory is a Micromundo and Fabula production. Producers are Maite Alberdi, Juan De Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, and Rocío Jadue. It is executive produced by Nina L. Diaz, Liza Burnett Fefferman and Sheila Nevins on behalf of MTV Documentary Films; Marcela Santibañez, Daniela Sandoval, Nicholas Hooper, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Chandra Jessee and Rebecca Lichtenfeld.
MTV Documentary Films also earned an Oscar nomination this year in the Best Documentary Short category for The ABCs of Book Banning, directed by Sheila Nevins and co-directed by Trish Adlesic and Nazenet Habtezghi. MTV Documentary Films has garnered Oscar nominations in recent years for documentary feature Ascension, directed by Jessica Kingdon, and documentary shorts Hunger Ward, directed by Skye Fitzgerald, and St. Louis Superman, directed by Sami Khan and Smriti Mundhra.
