Patricio Henriquez is a
Quebec
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based filmmaker,
mirror
who is a partner with Robert Cornellier and
Raymonde Provencher in the Macumba Films documentary studio.
Henriquez grew up and trained in filmmaking in
Chile
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, leaving the country after
Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of
Salvador Allende.
In 1999, ''The Last Stand of Salvador Allende'' won the award for Best History Documentary at the 1999
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
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.
In 2000, he won the award for Best Political Documentary for ''
Images of a Dictatorship'', which was also the winner of the 2000 M. Joan Chalmers Documentarian Award for Film and Video.
''
You Don't Like the Truth'', a film he co-directed with frequent collaborator
Luc Côté, won the award for Best Documentary About Society at the
Gémeaux Awards in 2011.
[
Henriquez's film '' Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd'' had its world premiere on October 10, 2014, at the ]Festival du nouveau cinema
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.[ 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
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. 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
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'' why she agreed to be in Henriquez's film when she had declined other invitations.
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He is a three-time winner of the Jutra/Iris Award for Best Documentary Film, winning at the 2nd Jutra Awards The 2nd Jutra Awards were held on March 5, 2000 to honour films made with the participation of the Cinema of Quebec, Quebec film industry in 1999."Post Mortem snares top Jutra". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 7, 2000. The hosts of the ceremony were Y ...
in 2000 for ''Images of a Dictatorship'',["Les Prix Jutras / The Jutra Awards"]
''Northern Stars''. the