Make More Meaning Media — Norte Chico, Chile

Vision

We don’t capture reality, we make meaning from it — The Norte Chico is not our backdrop, it’s our co-author.

Our work

The Norte Chico has some of the clearest skies in the world and some of the least visible communities in Chile. We work from inside that tension.

We use documentary methodology — observational, hybrid, and personal — to make films about intimate and inner journeys: the self, the body and the lives that rarely make it to the screen.

Filmography

Projects

001

⚫ Distribution

Asteroide 2518

After finding unpublished documents about her astrophysicist great-grandfather in a Chilean observatory, Amanda decides to make a documentary about him but an autoimmune disease complicates everything.

Feature Documentary · 62 min · 4K

2026 Feature

002

⚬ In Editing

El Universo de Lolo

A girl from Coquimbo with ADHD who is obsessed with ancient Egypt and the stars travels the Limarí Valley with her mother, visiting observatories and waiting for a UFO to take her to another galaxy.

Short Documentary · 20 min · 4K

2027 Short

003

⚬ Script Development

Conexión Astral

Ovalle, after World War III. A survivor builds a satellite from nineties junk, trying to reach her parents somewhere in space.

Fiction Short · 8 min · 4K

2028 Fiction

004

⚬ Pre-Production

Playa Inclusiva

On a Coquimbo beach there is a place built so that people with reduced mobility can enjoy the sand and the sea. There, members of an adaptive surf school gather and with the help of their instructors, they enter the water and ride the waves. This documentary portrays the contrasts between resistance and inclusion that unfold at the Playa Inclusiva.

Feature Documentary · 52 min · 4K

2029 Feature

Author’s Universe

“Three films. One question: what does it feel like to look up at the sky from the most beautiful, most forgotten place on earth — and still reach for something?”

Asteroide 2518 · El Universo de Lolo · Conexión Astral

What we do

Services

A one-person production company. Expanded team when the budget allows.

Videography & Direction

Documentaries, shorts, corporate videos. From development to delivery.

Subtitling & Translation

Spanish ↔ English. Accessibility is part of every project, not an afterthought.

Amanda
Rutllant
da Cunha

Films directed

2024

4M founded

Norte
Chico

Home territory

Global
South

Point of view

Member of Chiledoc — The Collective Force of Chilean Documentary

Director’s Statement

I make films because I need to understand things. Not explain them — understand them.

I’m a Chilean-Brazilian sociologist who ended up with a camera in her hand; someone who has spent a lot of time inside a body that doesn’t always “act or feel normal” and a mind that easily wanders off in space. I’m a hopeless romantic for adventure and overall a curious earthling trying to slightly grasp the mysteries of the universe with her tiny little camera. Those things are all in my work. The grief of it, but also the strange grace.

The Norte Chico taught me that the most extraordinary things happen in places no one is watching. I want to be the one who watches. My films come from the Global South — not as a label, but as a way of seeing. A place where the sky is absurdly clear and the ground is hard and dry, and where you learn to sit with questions that don’t have answers.

I’m drawn to characters who carry entire worlds inside them — quietly, without applause. I make films that I hope make you feel less alone in whatever you’re carrying.

I’m currently looking for co-production partners and financing for my triptych: Asteroide 2518, El Universo de Lolo, and Conexión Astral.

Let’s work
together

makemoremeaningmedia@gmail.com

Phone / WhatsApp

(+569) 8 729 5264

Based

Santiago & Coquimbo, Chile

Instagram

@make.more.meaning.media

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