René Ballesteros
About
René Ballesteros (Chile, 1975). Psychologist and filmmaker, René used to work in juvenile prisons and with street children. After studying cinema at Paris VIII, EICTV and Le Fresnoy, he directed in 2010.
El Castillo
EL CASTILLO brings the viewer inside a prison for teenagers from the Mapuche countryside, in southern Chile. Every night, collective nightmares attack the teenagers – leading to rumors from the elders in the community that the prison is built upon an ancestral Mapuche cemetery.