Sebastian Lelios Quote about Fascism

“Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.”

— Sebastian Lelio

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Sebastian Lelio is a Chilean film director. In 2017, he had the opportunity to attend the Oscar film festival as a representative of Chile in the foreign language category. Her film 'A Fantastic Woman' was nominated at the Oscar Film Festival. And it is in this source that he has the opportunity to represent in this festival.

Not only this, his film won the 'Silver Bear' award in the Best Screenplay category at the Berlin Film Festival this year. The film was based on the life struggles of a transgender, where she works as a hotel waitress and singer.

She has moved in with Orlando (Francisco Reyes), an older man who suddenly falls ill and dies. Marina is forced to confront Orlando’s family and society’s suspicion and contempt, and to fight to show them who she truly is: complex, strong, forthright, fantastic.

Earlier, he gained fame in the film world by producing his Secret Family in 2005. In 2013, he produced ' Gloria' , where Paulina Garcia won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival for her performance.

In 2017, Sebastian Lelio came to Los Angeles to remake the movie 'Gloria' in English. During the shoot (on vacation), Deadline magazine photojournalist Nancy Tartaglione conducted a brief interview. In one episode of this interview, the journalist commented, "You (in A Fantastic Woman) wanted to hit the zeitgeist about the transgender community." In view of this comment, he explains:

“The subject exploded when I was filming. There were the Time and National Geographic covers; transgender people in pop culture. It happened more or less when I was shooting to my surprise. But I felt that in a certain way this idea of the problem of people that are more or less ‘legitimate’ than others — who defines what is love and who can draw the line to say this is not legitimate and this is legitimate? — that problem is very contemporary because we are going through the crisis of empathy. The limits of our empathy are being challenged. You can see this in immigration, in the global warming crisis. We’re disconnected from our planet. What are the limits of our loyalties to ourselves our families, nation, race, gender?

There are so many things that we are going through as a species. Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.”