| Release Date | 24 February 2004 |
| Budget | $2,000,000 |
| Genre | Drama, Biography |
| Country | ChileSpainUKFrance |
| Filming Locations | Santiago, Chile |
| Language | Spanish |
| Sound Mix | Dolby Digital |
| Color | Color |
| Film Type | Feature |
| Film Class | Period Film, Political Drama, Coming-of-Age |
| Themes | Innocence Lost, Faltering Friendships, Teachers and Students, Political Unrest, Class Differences |
| Tags | Class Consciousness, Crush, Friendship, Political Unrest, Private School |
Machuca is a 2004 Chilean film written and directed by Andrés Wood. Set in 1973 Santiago during Salvador Allende's socialist government and shortly before General Augusto Pinochet's military coup in 1973, the film tells the story of two friends, one of them the very poor Pedro Machuca who is integrated into the elite school of his friend Gonzalo Infante. The social integration project is headed by the director of the school, Father McEnroe.