As a teenager, I found it all a bit much, all this blackness, and I shunned it all for a bit.” Bustos Sierra returned to the coup via his interest in the cultural movement that attended Allende’s rise. So to someone like him British society was the epitome of civilisation. He has recently written the score for BBC One drama series The Moonstone. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. £13 Full, £11 Concs/Green, £7 Blue Members. The 1974 boycott of Chilean engines in East Kilbride was only one of many actions taken all over the world in protest against Pinochet's dictatorship. Sun 20 Oct 2019 22:00. Sat, 03 Nov 2018. The archives on the release of the Chilean political prisoners are not to be released – I think – until 2039. If this was going to be a relevant story to tell today, a big part of it for me was to separate the fiction from what really happened.”. An engine was salvaged and returned to East Kilbride. Our new poster is out! As a note at the end of the film says, both Rolls Royce and the UK Government did not respond to Bustos Sierra’s interview requests. I’m a Chilean filmmaker, living in Scotland for 14 years now. 14 talking about this. For four years the engines rusted in crates outside the factory until one night in 1978 they vanished. I thought it interesting that someone with such a rich life could have such a low opinion of others.”. Sierra, himself the son of a Chilean exile, focuses his attention on a small group of former Rolls-Royce engineers, who were responsible at the time for maintaining and repairing the engines of various military fighter planes. From left: John Keenan, Robert Somerville and Bob Fulton were re-united in the documentary. Original NAE PASARAN poster (crowdfunding campaign) - Moon, Original NAE PASARAN poster (crowdfunding campaign) - Moneda Palace, Filming at the Moneda Palace, Santigao, Chile. We’re working on releasing the film at festivals and in cinemas nationwide later this year! Patrick is a classically trained composer who writes music and lyrics for international feature films, theatre productions and TV. Original NAE PASARAN poster (crowdfunding campaign) … Primary Menu. We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. More clips from Timeline. The true story of the workers who defied Pinochet. See all clips from Nae Pasaran (2) Broadcasts. That way, all the trolls who post abuse on our website will have to pay if they want to join the debate – and risk a permanent ban from the account that they subscribe with. 07:00 pm . A few years later there was the miner’s strike and the subsequent reduction in the power of trade unions. Their story has been made into a film, Nae Pasaran. Photograph: Debasers Filums. Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation. NAE PASARAN. The bombardment, on September 11 1973, had been ordered by the army, led by Augusto Pinochet. Felipe Bustos Sierra doesn’t do a great deal in the director’s chair other than sit back and let his magnetic leading men tell their story with … My tears were not those of sadness. BBC Scotland. Published from its offices at 200 Renfield Street Glasgow and printed in Scotland by Newsquest (Herald & Times) a division of Newsquest Media Group Ltd, registered in England & Wales with number 01676637 at Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe HP10 9TY – a Gannett company. Felipe Bustos Sierra’s feature charts the incredible true story of the Scots who managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from the other side of the world, in the longest single act of solidarity against Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. Thanks … At the time, only one place in the world could service them: the factory in East Kilbride. It took Somerville six months to get back to him, Bustos Sierra says. OFTEN we never know the consequences of our actions. For Fulton, who had heard of the torture and persecution through his church, and Somerville, Kennan and Barrie, it was an immediate sense of solidarity with the people of Chile that made it impossible to repair those engines. Sebastian “Benito” Caro is a Santiago-based Chilean cinema-tographer with over 10 years of experience in documentary and fiction. “That was something that everyone else in the film could do, even briefly. See NAE PASARAN (with Q&A session) at the fantastic Mark Kermode-curated Screenplay Festival in Shetland on Sunday 26 August. Debasers Filums Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Original NAE PASARAN poster (crowdfunding campaign) - Moon. Founded in 2008, Interference Pattern is an Edinburgh-based high-end animation and visual effects studio specialising in CGI, VFX, visualisation, 2d animation, motion graphics, 3d modelling, 360VR & AR. The unlikely story of how a group of retired East Kilbride factory workers became Commanders of the Republic of Chile hits the silver screen this … In Chile, apart from some files which survived the Modena bombing, much simply did not exist. Nae Pasaran - the true story of the workers who grounded Pinochet's Air Force Nae Pasaran - the documentary revealing the true impact of a solidarity action by Scottish workers against Pinochet. Nae Pasaran also details the horrors of the Pinochet years, meets survivors of the period and hears the Chilean side of the story. ‘Nae Pasaran! Nae Pasaran was the story of four Scotsmen and other members of the Rolls Royce factory in East Kilbride, who downed tools and refused to repair engines for the Chilean air force. Nae Pasaran – Feature (2018) Duration: TBC Category: Feature , History , International , Scotland Felipe Bustos Sierra’s feature charts the incredible true story of the Scots who managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from the other side of the world, in the longest single … “That was why it was important to get the people from Amnesty in the film. We don’t know what happened to him.’ And that was Robert Somerville.”. : the true story of the workers who defied Pinochet’ will be screening in Manchester on the 10th September. Nae Pasaran — a tale of honest idealism in East Kilbride. Striking, too, is Bustos Sierra’s interview with General Fernando Rojas Vender, former Commander in Chief of the Chilean Air Force and Hawker Hunter squadron leader. Get involved with the news in your community, This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Editors' Code of Practice. Click on the map below to see more(The map is non-exhaustive and regularly updated.). Original NAE PASARAN poster (crowdfunding campaign) - Moon. Nae Pasaran UK Cinema Poster (A3) £12.00 Nae Pasaran UK Cinema Poster (A3) Buy Now. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. glasgowfilm.org www.debasers.co.uk. 02:00 pm. The past itself, in Chile as in every country with a turbulent history, is often contested. In his first interview to camera, Vender is asked why he thought Bob Fulton, a Christian and veteran of the Second World War would lead a band of men in Scotland who refused to work on Chilean engines. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions. NAE PASARAN. New trailer for NAE PASARAN! Advance previews across the country in September. But this film was always not just going to be about the past.”. In UK cinemas this autumn! The feature-length film tells the story of four Scotsmen - Bob Fulton, John Keenan, Robert Somerville and Stuart Barrie - who along with their workmates downed tools and refused to service and repair engines for the Chilean air force's British-made Hawker Hunterjet fighters. The documentary Many thousands more were sent into exile, including the journalist father of Felipe Bustos Sierra, the director of Nae Pasaran, a feature-length documentary which has its world premiere tomorrow night as the closing film of the Glasgow Film Festival. BAFTA-winning cinema documentary about the Chilean coup and the UK solidarity that rose against it. But I’ve interviewed Humberto twice and he believes it. They flowed in response to the sheer fortitude and humanity depicted in the inspirational story unfolding before me on the screen. A problem that would always emerge was of finding out what really happened versus how much we had invented to keep morale up,” Bustos Sierra says. But information was scarce and there were Chinese whispers so that the story became about the planes themselves being stuck in the factory and the workers had erected barricades and were fighting with the police everyday. “The story of the coup was the dominant story of my childhood,” Bustos Sierra says. The true story of the workers who defied Pinochet, NAE PASARAN is now available for purchase on DVD in our store (along with the posters). Colin Monie is a BIFA-nominated freelance film editor with 30 years experience working on films such as the Magdalene Sisters, Young Adam, and Hallam Foe. Home; Store; Store. As too is the belief that such a boycott could have only been successful in a time of trade union strength. You can see in Hansard that the Tory opposition were utterly baffled that it had got this far. 1974, Scotland. 06:45 pm . Read the latest features, interviews and reviews of Nae Pasaran here. We’ve had hundreds of emails from you complaining about this, asking us to take steps to ensure that these people aren’t given a platform on our site. In a Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. BBC Scotland. Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversation, register under fake names, and post vile abuse. “The guys know that if they did this today they would be arrested,” Bustos Sierra says. The Scottish boycott was always mentio… Nae Pasaran also details the horrors of the Pinochet years, meets survivors of the period and hears the Chilean side of the story. As the Pinochet regime was ending following a referendum in 1988, government information was destroyed, wiping out a whole period of Chilean history. Nae Pasaran - the documentary revealing the true impact of a solidarity action by Scottish workers against Pinochet. It tells the tale of a group of Scottish trade unionists working at the East Kilbride plant of Rolls-Royce in the 1970s … In Belgium, we would go to solidarity events where they’d roll off a list of actions taken throughout the world in protest against the torture and censorship by the Pinochet regime. Felipe Bustos Sierra’s documentary relates the story of Scottish factory workers standing up for Chile’s Allende . I grew up in Belgium, where my father had received a visa as a Chilean refugee. Far from it. Skip to content. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. Bob Fulton, a Rolls-Royce engine inspector, returns to his section, upset and anxious. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then please contact the editor here. With unprecedented access and research, NAE PASARAN reveals for the first time the incredible impact made by Scottish factory workers 40 years ago against one of the most repressive dictatorships of the 20th century. “That was my first connection with the story of East Kilbride,” says the director. We’ll be monitoring this change over the first few weeks, and we’re keen to know your thoughts. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. “He was like: ‘I hear you are looking for me?’ Through him I met Bob Fulton, John Keenan and Stuart Barrie. Sun 24 Feb 2019 22:30. And maybe that gave people some hope back then, so I think it is valid to include it.”. This will be the first public screening in England, a day before the 45th anniversary of the 1973 coup in Chile. As a teenager, I found it all a bit much, all this blackness, and I shunned it all for a bit.”. Felipe Bustos Sierra, UK, 2018, ... reunites former factory workers Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville, Stuart Barrie and John Keenan to hear their story. 40 years after their defiant stand in protest against Pinochet's Air Force in Chile, Scottish pensioners discover the dramatic consequences of their solidarity. ©Copyright 2001-2021. Like many around the world, they had seen the images of the air raid on the Modena, the seat of President Salvador Allende’s democratically elected leftist government. I’ve heard people say that back then this was a rumour, and I think the people who may have been involved have passed away. Because their story had never had an ending to it, I suppose they didn’t perhaps want to relive it if that’s how it was going to stay. Bustos Sierra returned to the coup via his interest in the cultural movement that attended Allende’s rise. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. “That’s the only thing in the film I present without any other evidence,” he says. In … It was very exaggerated. Sometimes, it takes the passing of a few decades. £18.00 Original NAE PASARAN poster (crowdfunding campaign) - Moon . Email us at letters@thenational.scot if you want to have your say. We’re listening to you, and here’s how we plan to make that happen. He's just told his colleagues that a Chilean Air Force jet engine has arrived in the factory for maintenance and he's refusing to let it go through, in protest against the recent military coup of General Pinochet. Archive footage sets the scene: the coming of General Pinochet's military junta in mid 70s Chile involves the bombing of government buildings by British Hawker Hunter aircraft. Original NAE PASARAN poster (crowdfunding campaign) … A few months ago I came across a Kickstarter project called Nae Pasaran. It explores just how significant their actions were in depriving the Chilean military dictatorship of much of its air power, contrary to the latter's claims at the time, through witness statements not only from several victims of the 1973 military coup but als… Nae Pasaran UK Cinema Poster (A3) £12.00 Nae Pasaran UK Cinema Poster (A3) Buy Now. NAE PASARAN. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I wept when I watched the film Nae Pasaran. Primary Menu. Nae Pasaran, Dir. Nae Pasaran is his first feature, and premiered at the Closing Gala of the Glasgow Film Festival 2018 to rave reviews. What should we do with our second vote in 2021? John Keenan said: ‘Do you think you could find the engines?’ That became the main propeller forward. Duration: 4 minutes This clip is from. A particularly striking moment is when Raul Vergara, a captain in the Chilean Air Force until his support for Allende landed him on the wrong side of the coup, expresses his lack of bitterness towards his captors, even though “some of my torturers appear in my wedding album”. Nae Pasaran - the documentary revealing the true impact of a solidarity action by Scottish workers against Pinochet. A major flashpoint of the Cold War, the coup was stoked by economic sanctions and artificial shortages ordered by US President Nixon, whose government supported the junta in consolidating power. In 1974 a group of factory workers refused to repair a Chilean Air Force jet engine. It’s frequently noted in the film – which is hoped to be out on general release in September to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the coup – that “they could be me”. Buy Now. 5 talking about this. Thank you Glasgow Film Festival for taking a chance on our rough cut and making the very first screening of NAE PASARAN such a joy! “They were quite wary at first though,” he continues. Primary Menu. Home; Store; Store. “Over the years I have met many people with a connection to Chile and it was always to do with resistance to the dictatorship. Release date: 08 March 2018. When Pinochet’s regime finally ended in 1990, more than 3000 Chileans were dead or “disappeared”. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here. Felipe Bustos Sierra is raising funds for NAE PASARAN - an untold story of Chilean solidarity on Kickstarter! Nae Pasaran tells a universally comprehensible story of ordinary Scottish workers who refused to work on military warplanes. This heartfelt documentary from Felipe Bustos Sierra is about the decency and moral courage of a group of Scottish Rolls-Royce workers and trade unionists. Sat 4 May 2019 21:00. The conversation will go back to what it should be about – people who care passionately about the issues, but disagree constructively on what we should do about them. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Thank you to everyone who came to see NAE PASARAN this month. It’s been a fantastic welcome! “Nae Pasaran is hopeful, but that is not the story of the dictatorship – that was about brutality, disappearance and death. BAFTA-winning cinema documentary about the Chilean coup and the UK solidarity that rose against it. Felipe is an award-winning Belgian / Chilean filmmaker based in Scotland. I’m not saying that was a stepping stone, but that somebody was taking notice.”, Tomorrow, 7.30pm, Glasgow Film Theatre, sold out. “What would be the point if it was just going to be a rehash of the past? The true story of the workers who defied Pinochet. Nae Pasaran, a powerful documentary, tells their story. Nae Pasaran - DVD (PAL only) The incredible true story of solidarity. What happens if Westminster says no to indyref2? “He’s a very Christian man, and the Chilean Air Force was modelled on the RAF. So when one of Nae Pasaran’s interviewees, Humberto Arenas, an Allende-sympathising mechanic in the Chilean Air Force until the coup, says a woman claiming to be from Amnesty UK told him he was on a list of political prisoners being released in exchange for engine parts, nothing as yet can verify or disprove his claim. The workers have “carried their story” for 40 years, and now Bustos Sierra has brought it to life with his documentary film ¡Nae Pasaran!, which goes on general release in UK cinemas from 2 November. £18.00 Original NAE PASARAN poster (crowdfunding campaign) - Moon . There are also plans to screen it outside the UK, including in Chile, in 2019. The workers were told their actions had changed nothing. Nae Pasaran. With over 9 years professional experience, Jack’s credits include award winning films & docu-mentaries, high end commercials, installations & immersive 360 spatial audio projects. Cinema 2. While researching the story of Victor Jara, a musician-artist tortured and killed by Pinochet’s soldiers, he met activists involved with Chile solidarity movements in the UK during the dictatorship. Scottish factory workers discover that their forgotten gesture of solidarity for Chile 40 years ago had incredible consequences. In UK cinemas this autumn! Trade unions were getting in the way of British business, and whatever the Chileans were up to was their business. “And we paid the price.”. As the late Dr Arturo Jiron Vargas, Allende’s health secretary and personal physician, notes: “After the coup, the shortages stopped.”, “Nationalising the copper was no small matter but we did it anyway,” he says. They came in that welling up provoked by a sense of great pride. Timeline — Series 2, 08/03/2018. Nae Pasaran often illuminates a whole aspect of the era, or a deeper question about human nature and ethics, with elegant brevity. Cinema 2. “The story of the Scottish workers was a very colourful one as it was tied up with the most iconic image of the coup – the Hawker Hunters attacking the capital.