Jerónimo Rodriguez
About
Jerónimo Rodriguez is a Chilean filmmaker based in New York and Santiago. He directed THE MONUMENT HUNTER (FID Marseille International Com-petition 2015, Special Jury Prize at FICCI 2016). He also co-wrote Alejandro Fernandez Almendras’ feature MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Sundance Film Festival World Dramatic Competition and Berlin Film Festival 2016) and was screenplay advisor on Almendras’ 2014 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner TO KILL A MAN. He co-produced Matias Piñeiro’s THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Locarno Film Festival 2014). Filmmaker Magazine recently named Rodriguez among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
Wiring Utopia
In 1971, a wealthy British cybernetician gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is invited to create an “electronic nervous system” — the world’s first internet — in socialist Chile. Under constant threat of a coup, his team creates an idealistic technology which could transform the world.