Two emerging filmmakers are entering the Oscar race this year with their feature directorial debuts.

Paraguayan director Juanjo Pereira won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin Film Festival with his documentary Under the Flags, the Sun . It examines the period from 1954-89, when his country was ruled by the military dictator Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. The strongman, who enjoyed the backing of successive U.S. administrations as a reliable anti-communist, routinely disappeared perceived leftist political opponents, killing and torturing an untold number of them.

Paraguay has chosen the documentary as its official entry for the Oscar Best International Feature Film category. On today’s edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, Pereira tells us how Paraguay became a linchpin of the clandestine

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