Patricio Henríquez

Patricio Henriquez is a Quebec based filmmaker,[1][2] who is a partner with Robert Cornellier and Raymonde Provencher in the Macumba Films documentary studio.[3]

Henriquez grew up and trained in filmmaking in Chile, leaving the country after Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.

You Don't Like the Truth, a film he co-directed with frequent collaborator Luc Côté, won the best documentary about society award at the first Gémeaux Awards in 2011.[1]

In 1999 the last stand of Salvador Allende won the best history award at the 1999 Hot Docs Film Festival.[4]

Henriquez's film Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd (Ouïghours, prisonniers de l’absurde) had its world premiere on October 10, 2014, at the Festival du nouveau cinema.[5] The film, about the 22 Uyghur captives in Guantanamo, is his third related to controversial US policies on holding civilians, for years, in extrajudicial detention. Rushan Abbas, a refugee herself, who had become a US citizen and successful in business, and had agreed to go to Guantanamo to serve as a translator, was one of the experts interviewed in the film told the Montreal Gazette why she agreed to be in Henriquez's film when she had declined other invitations.

“When I met Patricio, I saw that not only is he very passionate and a great director, but when I heard about his background, where he came from, I just had an immediate connection with him. He was a refugee himself. He came from another country because he was looking for a better life … a safe life actually. Why am I in America? Why were these people out of China? It just clicked right away. So I wanted to support this all the way.”[5]