Patricio Henriquez

Patricio Henriquez is a Quebec based filmmaker, 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, 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. 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. 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. 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 why she agreed to be in Henriquez's film when she had declined other invitations.

He is a three-time winner of the Jutra/Iris Award for Best Documentary Film, winning at the 2nd Jutra Awards in 2000 for Images of a Dictatorship, the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009 for Under the Hood: A Voyage Into the World of Torture, and the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016 for Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd.