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11th Pedro Sienna Awards
The 11th Pedro Sienna Awards were presented at the Municipal Theatre in Chillán on August 5, 2017 given by the National Council of Culture and the Arts (CNCA) to honour the best in Chilean films of 2017. Daniela Vega and Matías Assler hosted the ceremony. The nominees were announced on July 19, 2017. ''Chameleon'' led the nominations with eleven including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress twice, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay, followed by '' Much Ado About Nothing'' with nine nominations. '' Much Ado About Nothing'' won Best Film, as well as Best Screenplay. '' Rara'' won Best Film too. ''Neruda'' won the most awards with five. Jorge Riquelme won Best Director for ''Chameleon Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. The members of this family are best known for their distinct range of colors, bein ...''. Winners and Nominees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chillán
Chillán () is the capital city of the Ñuble Region in the Diguillín Province of Chile located about south of the country's capital, Santiago, near the geographical center of the country. It is the capital of the new Ñuble Region since 6 September 2015. Within the city are a railway station, an inter-city bus terminal, an agricultural extension of the University of Concepción, and a regimental military base. The city includes a modern-style enclosed shopping mall in addition to the multi-block open-air street market where fruits, vegetables, crafts and clothing are sold. The nearby mountains are a popular destination for skiing and hot spring bathing. Founded by the Spanish in 1580 the city persisted despite numerous attacks by Mapuche, Pehuenches and other tribes in war with Spain. Over time Chillán became an important marketplace where Mapuches, Pehuenches, Mestizos and Criollos met. Many goods from Patagonia and the Argentine Pampas were brought into the market of Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Vega
Daniela Vega Hernández (born June 3, 1989) is a Chilean actress and mezzo-soprano singer. She is best known for her critically acclaimed performance in the Academy Award-winning film ''A Fantastic Woman'' (2017). At the 90th Academy Awards in 2018, Vega became the first transgender person in history to be a presenter at the Academy Awards ceremony. In 2018, ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Early life Born on June 3, 1989 in San Miguel, Santiago Province, as the first child of Igor Alejandro Vega Inostroza and Sandra del Carmen Hernandez de la Cuadra. Vega began studying opera with her grandmother at the age of eight. Growing up, she attended an all-boys school where she was bullied. It was while she was attending the all-boys school in her teens that she realized she was a girl and began to transition. Her parents and younger brother Nicolás were supportive of her, despite the conservative nature of Chile at that time. Vega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Much Ado About Nothing (2016 Film)
''Much Ado About Nothing'' ( es, Aquí no ha pasado nada) is a 2016 Chilean drama film directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. It was inspired by a real-life political scandal in Chile. In 2013, Martín Larraín, son of Senator Carlos Larraín (then-president of the right-wing party Renovación Nacional), was acquitted after killing a man in a DUI hit and run while his friends took the fall. Plot Vicente, who resides in Los Angeles, returns to Chile to spend his summer at his parents' beach house. He is a reckless and somewhat solitary young man. However, one of those typical nights of pursuing girls and having drinks alters his life forever; he becomes the prime suspect in a hit-and-run accident that results in the death of a local fisherman. "I wasn't the one driving," he insists, but his memories are muddled. He does recall being in the car and that the driver was the son of a powerful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rara (film)
''Rara'' is a Chilean film directed by Pepa San Martín, written by Alicia Scherson, and starring Julia Lübbert and Mariana Loyola. It is the first feature film produced by Manufactura de Películas, based in Santiago, and co-produced by Le Tiro Cine, from Buenos Aires. ''Rara'' won the Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2016, and received an Horizontes Latinos Award at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2016. Plot Sara, a 13-year-old girl, faces challenges with school, boys, hiding a secret from her best friend, and her parents quarreling. She has no problems with her mother living with another woman, even if her father does not agree. Cast * Julia Lübbert as Sara * Emilia Ossandón as Catalina * Mariana Loyola as Paula * Agustina Muñoz as Lía * Daniel Muñoz as Víctor * Sigrid Alegría as Nicole * Coca Guazzini as Icha * Enrique Bustamante as school counselor * Luz Croxatto as Eugenia * Claudia Celedón Claudia Irene Celedón Ureta (born 15 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Hernández (actor)
Sergio Fernando Hernández Albrecht (born 27 April 1945) is a Chilean actor. He has performed in more than sixty films since 1971. Due to the coup Hernández left Chile in 1973 and worked in film and theater in Europe. He returned to Chile in 1986. Selected filmography References External links * 1957 births Living people Chilean male film actors Chilean male telenovela actors Chilean male television actors 20th-century Chilean male actors 21st-century Chilean male actors People from Arica {{Chile-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You'll Never Be Alone (film)
''You'll Never Be Alone'' ( es, Nunca vas a estar solo) is a 2016 Chilean drama film directed by Álex Anwandter. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. The film won a Jury Award from the Teddy Awards for LGBT-related feature films. '''', 20 February 2016. The film centres on Juan ( Sergio Hernández), a shy factory worker struggling to pay the medical bills after his gay son is hospitalized in a |
Paulina Urrutia
Paulina Marcela Urrutia Fernández (born 15 January 1969) is a Chilean actress, academic, director, trade union leader, and politician. She was a State Minister of the first government of President Michelle Bachelet. Biography Born into a middle-class family, Paulina Urrutia grew up in the San Miguel district of the Chilean capital. Her parents worked in public administration and separated when she was fifteen years old. She studied at the Company of Mary school on Seminario Street in the municipality of Providencia. Her first introduction to theater was as a girl, in a school workshop. Later, after graduating from high school, she entered the discipline at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The exercise of her profession began very early. The first play in which she performed was ', in 1987, under the direction of Raúl Osorio. Her career in television began in a Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) series in 1989, thanks to an invitation from the producer . She playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chameleon (2016 Film)
''Chameleon'' ( Spanish: ''Camaleón'') is a 2016 Chilean psychological thriller film written and directed by Jorge Riquelme Serrano. It had its world premiere at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival where it was selected to compete for the Sutherland Award (first feature competition). Plot ''Chameleon'' is a psychological thriller that chronicles Paula and Paulina's last day together at their summer home. Their intimate farewell is disrupted by the arrival of an unexpected guest, which leads to a shocking transformation, exposing the darkest corners of the human mind. Cast * as Gastón * Paulina Urrutia as Paulina * as Paula * Alejandro Goic as Franco Release ''Chameleon'' had its domestic Chilean premiere on 25 August 2016 at the Santiago International Film Festival (SANFIC) ahead of its theatrical release across Chile on the 29 September 2016. It went on to have its International Premiere on 9 October 2016 at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival, where it was nominated fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neruda (film)
''Neruda'' is a 2016 internationally co-produced biographical drama film directed by Pablo Larraín. Mixing history and fiction, the film shows the dramatic events of the suppression of Communists in Chile in 1948 and how the poet, diplomat, politician and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda had to go on the run, eventually escaping on horseback over the Andes. Plot After winning the 1946 election with the support of the Communists, Chile's president Gabriel González Videla turns against them, bans the party and orders mass arrests. The senator Pablo Neruda, former ambassador and well-known poet, speaks out forcefully against the repression. Warned that he is in danger, with his wife Delia he takes the road through the mountains to Argentina, but they are turned back at the frontier and have to go into hiding. A keen young policeman, Óscar Peluchonneau, is appointed to lead the hunt for the fugitives. He reasons that to catch his man he must first get to know him, so he studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Council Of Culture And The Arts
The National Council of Culture and the Arts (CNCA) was the Chilean government agency responsible for arts and cultural policy. The council was founded in 2003 and amalgamated arts and cultural policy under a single agency. It was a cabinet-level position in the Chilean position. Since the council was founded, six ministers have been in charge of the council: José Weinstein under President Ricardo Lagos Escobar, Paulina Urrutia under President Michelle Bachelet, Luciano Cruz-Coke and Roberto Ampuero under President Sebastián Piñera, Claudia Barattini and Ernesto Ottone under the second period of President Michelle Bachelet. Since 2004, CNCA has awarded the Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit The Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit ( es, Orden al Mérito Artístico y Cultural Pablo Neruda) was created in 2004 by the National Council of Culture and the Arts of the government of Chile, as part of the commemoration of the 10 ... to international fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina García
Paulina García Alfonso (born 27 November 1960), better known as Pali García, is a Chilean actress, stage director, and playwright. García debuted on television with a small role in the telenovela '' Los títeres'' (1984), but she was soon known for her theatre direction and for her various performances in films such as ''Tres noches de un sábado'' (2002), ''Cachimba'' (2004), ''Casa de remolienda'' (2007) and '' Gloria'' (2013). García has received four nominations for the Altazor Awards, winning on one occasion, and three for the APES Awards — the Chilean Arts and Entertainment Critics Awards—winning twice. In February 2013 she won the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in the movie '' Gloria'', directed by Sebastián Lelio. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Farías
Roberto Farías Morales (born 31 May 1969) is a Chilean actor. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 2003. He also works in dubbing. Career He studied in various acting workshops, including the María Cánepa Corporation Workshop and the Juan Edmundo González Workshop. In 1997, he graduated from Theater School. He started out in street theater at the age of 25 and has been under the direction of important Chilean directors, such as Gustavo Meza, Raúl Osorio, Luis Ureta, Alexis Moreno and Guillermo Calderón Guillermo Calderón is a Chilean playwright, director, and screenwriter. His plays have been produced at The Public Theater, Royal Court Theatre, and around the world. As a script writer, he has won different international awards for the best sc .... Selected filmography References External links * 1969 births Living people Chilean male film actors {{Chile-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
