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Aline Küppenheim
Aline Adriana Küppenheim Gualtieri (born 10 August 1969) is a Chilean actress. Biography and career Born to a French father and a Chilean mother, Kuppenheim spent his early years traveling around different parts of Europe as a result of his parents' trade -both artisans-. From there, her interest for drawing was also born, since -according to his own confession- he used to draw with chalk in the streets of Paris, while his parents worked. She returned to Chile in the early 1980s, where he studied at La Girouette School at Las Condes. Later he studied theater at Fernando González's academy-club. She made her debut in telenovelas in 1991 with the successful TV series ''Ellas por ellas'' de Canal 13 playing Victoria "Vicky". She then changes to TVN where she participates in the teleseries ''Trampas y caretas'' and ''Jaquemate'', in the latter she gets her first important role as one of the young protagonists of the story along with Felipe Camiroaga. Later he returned to Chann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018 for the Socialist Party of Chile; she is the first woman to hold the Chilean presidency and the first elected female leader in South America. After leaving the presidency in 2010 and while not immediately reelectable, she was appointed the first executive director of the newly created United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In December 2013, Bachelet was reelected with over 62% of the vote, bettering the 54% she obtained in 2006. She was the first President of Chile to be reelected since 1932. Bachelet, a physician who has studied military strategy at university level, was Health Minister and Defense Minister under her predecessor, Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and describes her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Life (2008 Film)
''The Good Life'' ( es, La buena vida) is a 2008 Chilean drama film directed by Andrés Wood and written by Mamoun Hassan. The film won the 2008 Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. Plot Teresa (Aline Küppenheim), Edmundo (Roberto Farias), Mario (Eduardo Paxeco), and Patricia (Paula Sotelo) are four inhabitants of the city of Santiago de Chile whose lives intersect in public places but rarely come together to communicate. Immersed in the urban whirlwind, each of them pursues a goal: Teresa, a social psychologist who helps women in situations of risk; Edmundo, a stylist who still lives with his mother and longs to have a car; Mario, a young clarinetist who arrives from Berlin and wants to join the Philharmonic; and Patricia, who struggles to survive while caring for a baby and battling illness. Four stories based on real events, very different from each other but united by the ups and downs and contradictions of life in a South American city. Cast * Aline Küp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 (film)
''1976'', also known as ''Chile '76'' in North America, is a 2022 Chilean-Argentine drama film directed by Manuela Martelli in her directorial debut, with a screenplay co-written by Martelli and Alejandra Moffat. The film premiered on May 26, 2022, in the Directors' Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival and was released in Chilean cinemas on October 20, 2022. It was nominated in the Best Ibero-American Film category at the 37th Goya Awards. Plot Carmen, a 50-year-old housewife from a middle-class family, enjoys a comfortable life in Santiago with her successful and respected doctor husband Miguel and their adult children. In the winter of 1976, three years after Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile through a coup and established a military dictatorship, Carmen travels to her summer house to oversee renovation work and take some time for herself. While there, Father Sánchez, the priest of the small coastal town, asks for her help in caring for Elías, a young man w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peñalolén
Peñalolén (Mapudungun "fraternal meeting place") is a Chilean commune in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on November 15, 1984. History The commune was founded on November 15, 1984. Drug arrests During 2019, Chilean police arrested a local family, accusing them of drug trafficking. According to national news channels, the Peñaloléen organization is one of the largest in the Santiago area and operated all over the town. Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Peñalolén spans an area of and has 216,060 inhabitants (105,528 men and 110,532 women), and the commune is an entirely urban area. The population grew by 20.2% (36,279 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. ;Stats *Area: 54.2 km²Sistema de Información Regional , Ministry of Planning of Chile. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Cruz-Coke
Luciano Cruz-Coke Carvallo (born July 1, 1970 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean actor, and was the Minister of Arts and Culture under the 35th President Sebastián Piñera. Biography Cruz-Coke is the son of lawyer and university professor Carlos Cruz-Coke Ossa and Lucía Carvallo Arriagada. His brother is Carlos Cruz-Coke Carvallo, Councilman of Vitacura in Santiago; the nephew of cultural manager Marta Cruz-Coke and grandnephew of physician-politician Eduardo Cruz-Coke (Marta's father). Cruz-Coke studied in the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Manquehue. He went on to study law in the Universidad Finis Terrae, later changing his major to Architecture and finally became an actor. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City. He holds a degree in Documentary Filming from the Academy of Christian Humanism University and a master's degree in Mass Communications from University of Chile. Career Cruz-Coke has a fifteen-year acting career in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Rudolphy
Álvaro Gonzalo Rudolphy Fontaine (born May 24, 1964, in Viña del Mar, Chile) is a Chilean actor who works in theater, soap operas and film. He has obtained numerous awards, among them the Apes Prize in 2001 to the best Actor in his role in '' Amores de mercado'' and the Altazor Prize in 2008 for his role in '' Alguien te mira''. He was raised in Concepción, where he studied at Alianza Francesa. When his parents divorced, he returned to his birth city along with his mother and two siblings. After a year studying French, and another one of Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, he finally opted for theater. He studied theater in the academy by Gustavo Meza. He worked for Canal 13 and later on TVN. In the majority of his roles he has been the main character or one of the principal characters of the plot. He made his debut in ''Matilde Dedos Verdes Matilde is an alternate spelling of the name Matilda (name), Matilda and may refer to: People *Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuela Martelli
Manuela Abril Martelli Salamovich (born April 16, 1983 in Santiago) is a Chilean film and television actress and director best known for her roles in the films ''B-Happy'' and ''Machuca''. She starred with the famous Dutch actor Rutger Hauer in the Chilean-Italian film ''Il Futuro'', based on Roberto Bolaño's novel A Little Lumpen Novelita. Her first feature film ''1976'' was shown at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival at the Director's Fortnight section. Early life On April 16, 1983, Martelli was born in Santiago de Chile. Martelli's parents are Nicolás Martelli, of Italian descent,http://actrizchilena.blogspot.com/2007/08/manuela-martelli-ha-crecido.html interview with Manuela Martelli for actrizchilena.blogspot.com and Marian Salamovich, of Croatian descent. Education Martelli studied at Saint George's College, Santiago and later studied drama at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Career Martelli played the main role in the film ''B-Happy'' by Gonzalo Justini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the largest film festival in Asia and the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF. The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director. In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market. Tokyo Grand Prix winners Best Director Award *1985 - Péter Gothár, '' Time Stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
42 Days Of Darkness
''42 Days of Darkness'' ( es, 42 días en la oscuridad, lit=42 Days in the Dark) is a six-part Chilean crime thriller television series that premiered on Netflix on May 11, 2022. Directed by Gaspar Antillo and Claudia Huaiquimilla, the series is partially based on the true story of the disappearance of Viviana Haeger in 2010, which is depicted by Aline Küppenheim, and on the search for answers undertaken by her sister Cecilia, played by Claudia Di Girolamo. Background The series is based on the disappearance of Viviana Haeger on June 29, 2010, in Puerto Varas, Chile, but it takes some liberties with the actual events. Haeger, a mother of two daughters, was married at the time to Jaime Anguita. When her body was found in the attic of her Puerto Varas home on August 10, 2010, it was first thought to be suicide, and then murder. Her husband was charged, along with an accomplice, but the husband was ultimately acquitted due to a lack of evidence. The accomplice was sentenced to ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar For Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.80th Academy Awards – Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award . . Retrieved November 2, 2007. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
