No producer Daniel Dreifuss’ international connections include Missouri
- Dan Lybarger
- Dreifuss onstage at this year’s True/False
The Chilean movie No, which opens today in Kansas City, has taken festival prizes at Cannes and São Paulo, was an Oscar nominee this year for Best Foreign Language Film, and is well worth seeing. It depicts Chile’s 1988 plebiscite, when a majority of the country’s citizens voted to end the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, through the eyes of an ad man (Mexican star Gael García Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries).
Producer Daniel Dreifuss, who was born in Scotland and raised in Brazil but graduated as an exchange student from Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri, helped secure international backing for the project. The 2007 American Film Institute graduate returned to Columbia last month to present No at the True/False Film Festival. After the fest, The Pitch spoke with him by phone; he was in Los Angeles, where he has lived for the past decade. Our interview after the jump.
