It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Now we'll continue our Oscar season series

of interviews with the creators of the five Oscar

nominated feature length documentaries.

So far, we've met Bobby Wine, a Ugandan pop star turned

People's Politician and taken a trip to Tunisia where we met a mother trying to

prevent her daughters from joining ISIS in the two

nominated films we covered so far. Today we'll look at the film The Eternal

Memory which follows the relationship of a Chilean couple, Paulina Uruccia, and Augusto Kongara, as Augusto

lives with Alzheimer's disease and Paulina becomes his main caretaker.

And there is a political as well as personal angle to this story.

As Paulina and Augusto reminisce about Augusto's professional life as a journalist, we bear

witness to the collective memories of Chile that Augusto worked so

hard to preserve in addition to his personal memories, and we'll have a clip of that as we go from

the film.

So joining us now is Maite Alberti,

director and producer of the Eternal Memory,

streaming on Paramount Plus, by the way,

if you want to see it, see it. Maite, welcome to WNYC, and congratulations. and So at the top of the film, we're introduced to Pali who tells Augusto that her job is to help him remember

who Algosto Congara was, who he was. So why don't you start there who was

Augusto Congara and who is his wife Paulina the other main character in the film

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