Year: 2015
Running time: 80 min.
Country: Canada
Director: Ingrid Veninger
Screenwriter: Ingrid Veninger
Cast: Pedro Fontaine, Cristobal Tapia Montt
Music: Ohad Benchetrit, Justin Small
Cinematography: Dylan Macleod
Producer: pUNK FILMS
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: A wistful road trip through the grieving process of a recently bereaved young man. Love is everything when a young man journeys from the north to the south of Chile to fulfill a promise. At times she has been called the DIY Queen of Independent film and with her new film, Ingrid Veninger really lives up to that moniker not only in the creation of this film but it’s fundraising and distribution strategy which includes her indigogo campaign, festival screenings and special live score performances. According to Veninger herself, as with many scripts over the year’s in cinematic history, her new film was born from a single image. Veninger states that ‘I could not get the image of Pedro out of my mind travelling in a red truck from the north of Chile to the south’ and hence we have this visually beautiful, quiet, engaging film He Hated Pigeons. In essence, its one man’s journey to try and make sense out of loss and try to understand what truly happened when the facts are unclear. Being the film takes place in Chile and the partner was not only a foreigner (Canadian) and gay it echoes the past history of Chile’s many ‘disappeared’ and how ,as a person or country, one can deal with loss when no one really seems to know or want to admit what happened. In recent years, their have been a lot of films with bigger budgets and story’s where the lead actor needs to carry the film and , at times, it may seem like just an acting exercise because the story does not hold up.
