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Pedro Sienna Awards
The Pedro Sienna Awards ( es, Premios Pedro Sienna) are honors granted for Chilean audiovisual production. Named for silent film director Pedro Sienna, they were given for the first time in 2006. Outstanding artists are awarded for the development and strengthening of national audiovisual media and the best works, artists, and technicians of the production of works released in the country between January and December of the previous year. They came about as a result of Law No. 19.981 of 2005 that created the Council of the Art and Audiovisual Industry (CAIA) and the Audiovisual Promotion Fund, both under the National Council of Culture and the Arts (CNCA). Pedro Sienna was one of the forerunners of Chilean cinema, directing '' El Húsar de la Muerte'' (1925) and winning the National Prize for Art in 1966. The aim of the awards is to recognize an author, artist, technician, or producer who stands out for their artistic quality or projection of their audiovisual work and the rele ... [...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] |
Daniel Muñoz (actor)
Daniel Patricio Muñoz Bravo (born 11 February 1966) is a Chilean actor, comedian, and cueca singer. His extensive curriculum has enshrined him as one of the most important actors in his country. He is famous both for his comic characters in television as ''El Efe'', ''El Malo'', ''El Chanta'', ''El Sha'' and ''El Carmelo'', and also for more dramatic roles in film and television; highlighting his starring role as ''Juan Herrera'' in the acclaimed ''Los 80 '' of Channel 13, as the private detective ''Donovan Huaiquimán'' in ''Huaiquimán and Tolosa'', as ''Juan "Lennon"'' in the film ''The Sentimental Teaser'', as ''Chavelo'' in the film ''A Cab for Three'' and as Salvador Allende in ''Allende en su laberinto''. Early and personal life He was born in San Fernando and studied at the theater school of the University of Chile, graduating in 1988 with the play "El alma buena de Se Chuan". He lived his childhood with his grandmother, aunt, mother and sister. His parents would divo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director. He is most known for his films ''The Battle of Chile'' (1975-1979) and ''Salvador Allende'' (2004). Career Guzmán also teaches documentary film classes in Europe and Latin America, and is the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival of Santiago (FIDOCS). He lives in France. His 1983 film ''The Compass Rose'' was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2015 film ''The Pearl Button'' screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. He received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for his 2010 film ''Nostalgia for the Light''. Filmography * '' La Tortura y otras formas de diálogo'' (1968) * '' El Paraíso ortopédico'' (1969) * '' Primer año'' (1971) * ''La Respuesta de octubre'' (1972) * '' La Batalla de Chile: La insurrección de la burguesía'' (1975) * '' L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta Went To Heaven
''Violeta Went to Heaven'' ( es, Violeta se fue a los cielos) is a 2011 Chilean biopic about singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, directed by Andrés Wood. The film is based on a biography by Ángel Parra, Violeta's son with Luis Cereceda Arenas. He collaborated on the film. The film was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. It was awarded the World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Plot The film depicts Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval's road to becoming considered one of Chile's greatest folklorists and artists. It chronicles her guitar playing at a very young age, the ambience of her musician father's haunts, and the rural settings of southern Chile in the Ñuble Province. The film follows Parra in her project of studying Chilean folk music in order to preserve and carry forward in an original way traditional composition styles to form the genr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tercera
''La Tercera'' ( es, The Third One), formerly known as ''La Tercera de la Hora'' ('the third of the hour'), is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is ''El Mercurio''s closest competitor. ''La Tercera'' is part of Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos (Latin American Newspaper Association), an organization of fourteen leading newspapers in South America. History The newspaper La Tercera was founded on July 7, 1950 by Picó Cañas family. In the beginning it was called La Tercera de la Hora, as it was the evening edition of the now defunct newspaper ''La Hora''. Later in the 1950s it left aside its connection with La Hora to become a morning paper. Initially, La Tercera was linked to the Radical Party, but in 1965 this association was ended, and it became independent of any political party, system of government or religious confession. In 1970, the newspaper was one of the staunchest opponents to the government of Salvador Allende and in 1973 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalina Saavedra
Catalina Saavedra Pérez (born 8 January 1968) is a Chilean film, stage and television actress. She is known to international audiences for playing the title character in the 2009 film '' The Maid'', for which she received several awards and nominations. Career Saavedra's father is the writer Omar Saavedra Santis. She started acting lessons at the age of ten, prompted by her mother's hiring of a private theater arts teacher in Valparaíso. Years later, her love for acting led her to deepen her studies at the "Escuela de Teatro Imagen" in Santiago and later in Barcelona, when she began to study experimental theatre. Saavedra's first professional theatre performances were in roles in plays such as ''El Despertar'' (1991–1997), ''Pervertimientos y Otros Gestos Para Nada'' (1993) and ''La noche de la Iguana'' (''The Night of the Iguana'') (1994), and in a café-chantant called ''TV cable 90'' (1992). On film, Saavedra's first appearances were in short films, such as ''El Bidón' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 www.themaidmovie.com, Elephant Films. Retrieved 27 January 2012. which went on to record three albums Silva's second illustration show brought him in contact with Hollywood but a “frustrating period” in |
The Maid (2009 Film)
''The Maid'' ( es, La Nana) is a 2009 comedy-drama film, directed by Sebastián Silva and co-written by Silva and Pedro Peirano. It has won numerous awards since its premiere at the 25th Annual Sundance Film Festival. The film has had much critical acclaim, particularly for Catalina Saavedra's award-winning performance as the lead character. Plot synopsis Raquel (Saavedra) has served as the maid for the Valdes family for over 23 years. She treats her employers, Pilar (Celedón) and Edmundo (Goic) with the utmost loyalty and respect. She gets along well with their teenage son, Lucas (Agustín Silva) but clashes with their headstrong daughter, Camila (García-Huidobro). When Raquel begins to suffer dizzy spells, due to an excessive use of chlorine for household cleaning, Pilar decides to hire additional maids to assist Raquel in her daily chores. The fiercely territorial Raquel resents this and engages in a series of increasingly desperate attempts to drive away maid after maid, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javiera Contador
Javiera Contador (born June 17, 1974 in Santiago) is a Chilean actress, comedian and television hostess. She played ''Quena Gómez de Larraín'' on the television show Casado con Hijos. She studied theatre at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her first major role was in the telenovela "Loca Piel". She was the hostess of "Si se la Puede Gana", and along with Ricardo Astorga of "La Ruta del Nilo" (2005) and "La Ruta de Oceanía" (2006). Currently, Contador co-hosts ''Mucho Gusto'' with José Miguel Viñuela. Contador was an active member of the Communist Youth of Chile and the High School Students Federation (FESES) during the 1990s. Filmography Films * Sangre eterna (2002) * Smog (2000) * El entusiasmo (1998) - Isabel (voice) * Chile Puede (2008) - Ana María * Escorbo (2009) * Sal (2011)- María * '' Lina from Lima'' (2019)- Carmen * ''Off-Lined'' (2022)- Victoria Telenovelas * La Reina de Franklin (2018) - Yolanda "Yoli" Garrido * Sol y Viento (2003) - Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aline Kuppenheim
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Alfredo Castro (actor)
Alfredo Arturo Castro Gómez (born 19 December 1955), best known as Alfredo Castro, is a Chilean actor. With a well stablished trajectory in theater and television, he became one of the most required latinamerican film actors of the 2010's. Personal and early life He grew up in a family of five brothers; his mother died of cancer when he was 10. He attended elementary and middle school at Saint Gabriel de Las Condes, Kent School in Providencia and Liceo de Hombres No. 11 in Las Condes. He entered the Theater Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, where he graduated in acting in 1977. That same year he received the APES Award from the Association of Entertainment Journalists. That same year he debuted in ''Equus'', with good reviews from the specialized press. Acting carrer Between 1978 and 1981 he worked in ''Teatro Itinerante'', of which he was one of its founders. In 1982 he participates in the production for Televisión Nacional de Chile ''De cara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Wood
Andrés Wood Montt (born 14 September 1965) is a Chilean film director, producer and writer. Some of his most popular films include ''Machuca'', '' Violeta se fue a los cielos'', and ''Historias de Futbol''. He created his own production company known as Wood Producciones in 1993. Early life and education Born in Santiago, Chile, Wood is Chilean of Irish and Scottish descent. He grew up in a middle-class home and credits much of his artistic influence to his childhood in Chile based on the political climate of the country, specifically with the Pinochet dictatorship. Wood's father worked as an architect while his mother taught kindergarten. Both of his parents were conservative and favored an end to the Allende government. However, Wood had the opportunity to study at elite but progressive institutions throughout his life. Andres Wood attended Saint George's College. He graduated as an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1988. In 1991 he attended New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
