History and Geography (Spanish: Historia y geografÃÂa) is a 2023 Chilean comedy film co-written, co-produced and directed by Bernardo Quesney. Starring Amparo Noguera accompanied by Catalina Saavedra, Pablo Schwarz, Paloma Moreno, Paulina Urrutia and Steevens Benjamin. It is about a remembered comedy television actress who decides to return to her hometown to put on a play with the purpose of recovering the artistic recognition that she thought she had lost, but never had.
Gioconda MartÃÂnez is a beloved television comic actress who decides to return to her native San Felipe to stage a play based on La Araucana. In the process, she seeks to bury her past as "La Huachita," a character that brought her significant television popularity during the civil-military dictatorship.
Principal photography was scheduled to begin on April 4, 2020, but was delayed until December of the same year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was filmed primarily in San Felipe, Chile.
The film had its world premiere on August 24, 2023, at the 19th Santiago International Film Festival, then screened on November 8, 2023, at the 9th La Serena International Film Festival, on January 22, 2024, at the 16th Chilean Film Festival, on April 24, 2024, at the 25th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and on August 10, 2024, at the 28th Lima Film Festival. It had its commercial premiere on April 18, 2024, in Chilean theaters.