Carmen Castillo
Carmen Castillo Echeverría (born May 21, 1945 in Santiago de Chile , Chile ) is a Chilean documentary filmmaker and screenwriter who has French citizenship.
Life
Castillo is the daughter of the Chilean politician and architect Fernando Castillo Velasco and the writer Mónica Echeverría. She was a professor of historical research at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile . During the reign of President Salvador Allende , she worked in La Moneda, the seat of government in Santiago de Chile. After the coup in Chile in 1973 , she worked with her compañero Miguel Enríquez , the head of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) against the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet . From December 1973, the two lived with two children from different connections on Calle Santa Fe in the San Miguel district of Santiago de Chile. In October 1974, forces of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) secret police attacked the hiding place, killing Enriquez and wounding Carmen Castillo.
Castillo was expelled to Argentina in November 1974 under international pressure and then went to France. She decided to stay in France after having published two books there and started making documentaries since the 1980s. Today she commutes between France and Chile.
Publications
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Un día de octubre en Santiago . 1980.
- German: Santiago de Chile: One day in October . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-14733-5 .
- Line de fuite . Editions Bernard Barrault, Paris 1992.
- Together with your mother: Santiago / Paris, el vuelo de la memoria. 2000.
Movies
- 1983: Los muros de Santiago .
- 1984: Estado de guerra. Nicaragua .
- 1994: La flaca Alejandra .
- 1994-1999: Tierras estranjeras . Series of feature films for arte .
- 1995: La verdadera historia del Subcomandante Marcos .
- 1996: Inca de Oro .
- 1999: El bolero, una educación amorosa .
- 2000: Viaje con la cumbia por Colombia .
- 2001: El Camino del Inca .
- 2002: El astrónomo y el indio .
- 2003: José Saramago , el tiempo de una memoria .
- 2003: Misia, la voz del fado , German: Misias Fado , broadcast by arte.
- 2004: El país de mi padre .
- 2007: Calle Santa Fe , documentary film.
- 2010: El tesoro de América - El oro de Pascua-Lama .
- 2015: Aún estamos vivos .
Honourings and prices
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International Festival of New Latin American Films in Havana , Cuba
- 1994: Gran Coral for La flaca Alejandra ,
- 2010: Special prize for El tesoro de América - El oro de Pascua Lama .
and more.
DVDs
- Kostas Kolimenos , Thomas Leif , Verena Vargas , Carmen Castillo and many others: Library of Resistance . Laika Verlag Hamburg.
Web links
- Carmen Castillo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Castillo, Carmen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Castillo Echeverría, Carmen (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean-French documentary filmmaker and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile , Chile |