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Bélgica Castro
Bélgica Castro Sierra (; 6 March 1921 – 6 March 2020) was a Chilean stage, film, and television actress. During her career she participated in more than 100 plays. She also acted in numerous Chilean films, including ' (1944) by Jorge Délano and '' The Good Life'' (2008) by Andrés Wood. Under the direction of Ricardo Larraín she participated in '' Chile puede'' (2008), where she played a Russian scientist, a role for which she received the Paoa Award of the Viña del Mar International Film Festival for Best National Lead Actress and the APES Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also won the 1995 National Prize for Performing and Audiovisual Arts. Biography Bélgica Castro, the daughter of Spanish anarchist parents, was born in Concepción and studied in Temuco. In 1940, she traveled to Santiago to study Spanish at the of the University of Chile, where she joined the theater group Cadip. Then, along with other young artists led by Pedro de la Barra, she founded the ...
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Concepción, Chile
Concepción (; originally: ''Concepción de la Madre Santísima de la Luz'', "Conception of the Blessed Mother of Light") is a city and Communes of Chile, commune in south-central Chile, and the geographical and demographic core of the Greater Concepción metropolitan area, it is the second largest city in Chile by urban area and one of the three major conurbations in the country. It has a significant impact on domestic trade being part of the most heavily industrialized region in the country. It is the seat of the Concepción Province, Chile, Concepción Province and the capital of the Biobío Region. It sits about 500 km south of the nation's capital, Santiago. The city was first settled in the Bay of Concepción, in the zone that would later become the commune of Penco, now part of the Greater Concepción, Concepción conurbation. The city's demonym, , comes from the place of its original foundation. The city center and historic district is located in the Valle de la Mocha ...
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London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ...
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Claudia Celedón
Claudia Irene Celedón Ureta (born 15 August 1966) is a Chilean television, film, and theater actress. She is the winner of an Altazor Award for best theater actress for her role in the play ''Mujer gallina'', and was awarded at the Cartagena International Film Festival for her role in ''Old Cats''. She is the mother of the actress , and ex-wife of Cristián García-Huidobro. Biography Claudia Celedón is the daughter of the actor and publicist and Bernadette Ureta. She studied theater at the school of . She was part of the cast of the TVN television series ', and the Canal 13 series ', ', ', and '. She also worked on humor programs such as '' De chincol a jote'', ''Jaguar Yu'', and the segment "Los Eguiguren" on '' Sábados gigantes''. Celedón has participated in the shorts ''Matar a un boyscout'', ''Amigos'', and in the films '' The Sentimental Teaser'' and ', for which she won a Pedro Sienna Award for Best Actress in 2008, and was nominated for an Altazor. In theater, ...
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Old Cats
''Old Cats'' () is a 2010 Chilean drama film directed by Sebastián Silva. Plot Isidora (Bélgica Castro) and Enrique (Alejandro Sieveking) are an elderly couple living in a central apartment in Santiago. Isidora has started exhibiting symptoms of Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems wit .... Their daughter, Rosario (Claudia Celedón), comes to visit them with her girlfriend, Hugo (Catalina Saavedra), leading to a series of both humorous and dramatic situations. Cast * Bélgica Castro as Isadora * Claudia Celedón as Rosario * Catalina Saavedra as Hugo * Alejandro Sieveking as Enrique * Alejandro Goic as Manuel * Alicia Rodríguez as Valentina * as Abeja References External links * 2010 drama films 2010 films Chilean drama films 2 ...
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El Mercurio
(known online as ''El Mercurio On-Line'', ''EMOL'') is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. is owned by El Mercurio S.A.P. (''Sociedad Anónima Periodística'' 'joint stock news company'), which operates a network of 19 regional dailies and 32 radio stations across the country. History The Valparaíso edition of was founded by Pedro Félix Vicuña ( Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna's father) on September 12, 1827, and was later acquired by Agustín Edwards Ross in 1880. The Santiago edition was founded by Agustín Edwards Mac Clure, son of Edwards Ross, on June 1, 1900. In 1942 Edwards Mac Clure died and his son Agustín Edwards Budge took over as president. When Edwards Budge died in 1956, his son, Agustín Edwards Eastman, took control of the company. Edwards Eastman died in 2017, leaving the company in hands of his son Cristián Edwards del Río. El Mercurio SAP owns the Chilean afternoon daily newspaper '' La Segunda'', which published news wit ...
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Sebastián Silva (director)
Sebastián Silva Irarrázabal (born 9 April 1979) is a Chilean director, actor, screenwriter, painter, and musician. Early years The second of seven brothers, Sebastián Silva was born in Santiago, Chile on 9 April 1979. After graduating from the Catholic Colegio del Verbo Divino school in Santiago, he spent a year studying filmmaking at the Escuela de Cine de Chile (“Film School of Chile” in Spanish) before leaving to study animation in Montreal, Canada. Here, he mounted the first gallery exhibition of his illustrations and started the band CHC,Official biography
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which went on to record three albums Silva's second illustration show brought him in contact with Hollywood but a “frustrating period” in



El Mercurio De Valparaíso
EL, El or el may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional entities * El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * Eleven (''Stranger Things'') (El), a fictional character in the TV series ''Stranger Things'' * El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in the Superman dynasty * E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film '' Road Trip'' Music * Él Records, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway * ''Él ''(Lucerito album), a 1982 album by Lucerito * "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from the album '' Caminando'' * "Él" (Lucía song), the Spanish entry performed by Lucía in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 Other media * ''Él'', 1926 autobiographical novel by Mercedes Pinto * ''Él'' (film), a 1953 film by Luis Buñuel based on the 1926 novel * ''Él'' (visual novel), a 1991 Japanese adult visual novel * EL TV, an Azerbaijani regional television channel Companies and organizations * Estée Lauder Com ...
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Raúl Ruiz (director)
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (; 25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films. Biography The son of a ship's captain and a schoolteacher in southern Chile, Raúl Ruiz abandoned his university studies in theology and law to write 100 plays with the support of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. He went on to learn his craft working in Chilean and Mexican television and studying at film school in Argentina (1964). Back in Chile, he made his feature debut ''Three Sad Tigers'' (1968), sharing the Golden Leopard at the 1969 Locarno Film Festival. According to Ruiz in a 1991 interview, ''Three Sad Tigers'' "is a film without a story, it is the reverse of a story. Somebody kills somebody. All the elements of a story are there but they are used like a landscape, and the landscape is used like story."Klonarides, Carole Ann http://bombsite.com/issues/34/articles/1391, ''BOMB Magazine'' Wi ...
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La Recta Provincia
''La Recta Provincia'' ("the straight province") is a four-part 2007 Chilean TV miniseries written and directed by Raúl Ruiz which was edited into a feature film and shown at the Rome Film Festival in 2007. It was the first of the two folklore-themed miniseries' Ruiz made for TVN, the second being ''Litoral'' (2008). Cast * Bélgica Castro * Ignacio Agüero * Ángel Parra * Javiera Parra * Francisco Reyes * Alejandro Sieveking Alejandro Sieveking Campano (5 September 1934 – 5 March 2020) was a Chilean playwright, theatre director and actor. Career Sieveking was born in the Chilean city of Rengo (in the O'Higgins Region) on 5 September 1934. He performed as an actor ... References External links * Ruiz and the Devilsby Gonzalo Maza Spanish-language television shows Films directed by Raúl Ruiz 2007 Chilean television series debuts 2007 Chilean television series endings 2000s Chilean television series {{Chile-tv-prog-stub ...
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Days In The Country
''Days in the Country'' () is a 2004 French-Chilean drama film written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. It won the International Critics Award at the Lima Latin American Film Festival in 2006. Anexo:Festival de Cine de Lima (2006), Retrieved 2012-05-10 Plot Two elderly men converse in a bar in Santiago de Chile, speaking as if they are deceased, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Cast * Marcial Edwards * Mario Montilles * Bélgica Castro Bélgica Castro Sierra (; 6 March 1921 – 6 March 2020) was a Chilean stage, film, and television actress. During her career she participated in more than 100 plays. She also acted in numerous Chilean films, including ' (1944) by Jorge Délano ... * Ignacio Agüero * Francisco Reyes * Amparo Noguera References External links * Description at Rouge online film magazineby Maxime Renaudin 2004 films 2004 drama films 2000s French-language films Films directed by Raúl Ruiz French drama films Chilean drama films 2000s ...
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Little White Dove
''Little White Dove'' () is a 1973 Chilean teen dramedy film directed by Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz. It is loosely based on the bestselling 1971 teen novel ''Palomita Blanca'' by Enrique Lafourcade. As a result of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–90), military dictatorship (1973–1990), the film was presumed lost for many years and not released until 1992. Plot Little White Dove (Palomita Blanca) tells the story of Juan Carlos and María, two teenagers from different walks of life who fall in love at an outdoor hippie music festival in 1970s Chile. The film explores Juan and Maria's relationship in the light of immense social change and increasing political turmoil in South America. Production The film was shot in 1973 over six weeks with a budget of $170,000. It was completed just days before the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet on September 11, which overthrew the government of Salvador Allende. The film was scheduled fo ...
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Radio Cooperativa
Radio Cooperativa is a radio station in Chile, based in Santiago. It is operated by ''Compañía Chilena de Comunicaciones S.A.''. The station is notable for opposing the Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean military officer and politician who was the dictator of Military dictatorship of Chile, Chile from 1973 to 1990. From 1973 to 1981, he was the leader ... dictatorship (1973–1990) and denouncing its human rights violations at a time when reports of said wrongdoings were federally suppressed. The station has historic ties with Chile's Christian Democratic Party (Chile), Christian Democratic party. In 2020, Radio Cooperativa inked a content sharing agreement with China Media Group. It broadcasts on AM frequencies 660 and 1140 or 1150 (kHz), also known as CB-66, CB-114 and CB-115. References External links Official site
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