Osorio spoke concerning the inspiration, saying:
“With out spoiling the story … our story is about two sisters who misplaced all the things, their folks, their household due to an Imperial invasion. And I believe the inspiration for this story got here from an actual story that for us, as Latin Individuals and Chileans, is basically an important story and sadly, it’s totally unknown.
The story is that this one: Through the early 1900s within the far south of the continent, in what now is named Patagonia or the Land of Hearth [Tierra del Fuego], a big a part of the unique inhabitants have been killed by the colonists. And the factor is that these occasions have been occurring lower than 100 years in the past, nonetheless occurring 100 years in the past. So that is current historical past for us. And regardless of this, that is nonetheless a not very well-known a part of our personal historical past by the overwhelming majority of Chileans and Latin America.”
The director seems to be referencing the Selk’nam genocide, which happened from the center of the nineteenth century via the start of the twentieth. The tribe is estimated to have had about 4,000 members when Europeans first arrived. However the settlers supplied bounties on the Selk’nam (additionally known as the Ona), and others died from horrible situations, combating, and ailments launched by the colonizers, leaving nearly nobody left.
“So for this reason I felt an enormous accountability to inform a narrative that mirrored on the resistance and on the resilience and all of the injustice that the unique nations of Patagonia should endure,” Osorio continued on the panel. “And we felt that the Star Wars universe was the right place to inform this story.”