A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon the festival's focus, can include international and domestic releases. Some film festivals focus on a specific filmmaker, genre of film, or on a subject matter. Several film festivals focus solely on presenting short films of a defined maximum length. Film festivals are typically annual events. Some film historians, including Jerry Beck, do not consider film festivals as official releases of the film.
Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates in major cities including London, Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin, and Brussels. The festival was established in 1992 by Elliot Grove to be the voice of British filmmaking, and it showcases features and shorts by filmmakers from around the world to an audience of film executives and buyers, journalists, film fans and filmmakers.
Yuridia Valenzuela Canseco, commonly known as Yuri, is a Mexican singer, actress and television host. Yuri began her career as a teenage singer in her native country. In 1978 she released her first album titled Tú Iluminas mi Vida. She gained recognition as a result of her participation in the Oti Festival in 1980. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Yuri established herself as one of the most popular pop music singers in Mexico and Latin America. Her vocal quality and versatility allow her to be incorporated into other musical genres, ranging from pop to dance, ranchera and tropical music genres. Thanks to her success and influence, she came to be considered the "Queen of Latin Pop".
Sally El-Hosaini is a Welsh-Egyptian film director and screenwriter.
Chilean cinema refers to all films produced in Chile or made by Chileans. It had its origins at the start of the 20th century with the first Chilean film screening in 1902 and the first Chilean feature film appearing in 1910. The oldest surviving feature is El Húsar de la Muerte (1925), and the last silent film was Patrullas de Avanzada (1931). The Chilean film industry struggled in the late 1940s and in the 1950s, despite some box-office successes such as El Diamante de Maharajá. The 1960s saw the development of the "New Chilean Cinema", with films like Three Sad Tigers (1968), Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969) and Valparaíso mi amor (1969). After the 1973 military coup, film production was low, with many filmmakers working in exile. It increased after the end of the Pinochet regime in 1989, with occasional critical and/or popular successes such as Johnny cien pesos (1993), Historias de Fútbol (1997) and Gringuito (1998).
Violeta Went to Heaven 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.
Tom Kingsley is an English TV and film director. He is best known for directing Ghosts and three-time BAFTA-winning Channel 4 sitcom Stath Lets Flats. His work has been nominated for the 2012 BAFTAs, the 2011 British Independent Film Awards, the Guardian First Film Award, the Evening Standard Film Awards, and the Raindance Film Festival.
Sebastián Silva Irarrázabal is a Chilean director, actor, screenwriter, painter and musician.
Young & Wild is a 2012 Chilean coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Marialy Rivas and co-written by Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutiérrez, María José Viera-Gallo and Pedro Peirano. Starring Alicia Rodríguez and Maria Gracia Omegna, the film tells the story of Daniela, a 17-year-old bisexual girl who writes a blog about the conflicts she experiences between her evangelical Protestant, conservative family and her sexuality. The film was released at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 where it was awarded the World Cinema Screenwriting Award.
Sebastián Lelio Watt is a Chilean director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He received critical acclaim for directing the films Gloria (2013) and A Fantastic Woman (2017), the latter of which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo is a field ethologist who studies animal behaviour to understand other animals, as well as to understand humans and our place in nature. Originally from Chile, she is a primatologist, a pioneer adventurer-scientist and the first South American in following great apes in the wild.
Sebastián Sepúlveda is a Chilean screenwriter, film producer, editor and director.
Gregorio González Nicolini, known as Gregorio González, is a Chilean film producer and financial engineer, founder and currently CEO of LVA Indices (2005) and founder of film production company Forastero (2009), producing Sundance winner La Nana, among other films. He is nephew to Chilean TV celebrity Roberto Nicolini, great grandson of Italian architect Arnaldo Barison, who designed many of the landmark buildings of Valparaíso such as Palacio Baburizza, and great great grandson of Italian painter Giuseppe Barison. His brother Pablo González is an internationally recognised designer and one of the owners of Santiago Motion Graphics (SMOG).
Andrea María Velasco Alessandri is a Chilean film, theater and television actress and singer of Italian descent. She is well known for her work in romantic comedies, late night TV shows, and recently, her music career.
Maite Alberdi Soto is a Chilean film producer, director, documentarian, screenwriter, and film critic. Her most recent film The Mole Agent (2020) was an Academy Awards nominee for Best Documentary and a contender for Best International Feature. The film is also a nominee at the Goya Awards for Best Iberoamerican Film. Maite is the founder of Micromundo Producciones.
Antonia Zegers is a Chilean actress. She has an extensive career in cinema, with participation in some of the most awarded Chilean films such as Tony Manero (2008), Post mortem (2010), La vida de los peces (2010), No (2012), El club (2015), and A Fantastic Woman (2017), winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Lorene Prieto is a Chilean-New Zealand film, stage and television actor.
Luz Jiménez Ormeño is a Chilean actress, theater director, and teacher who gained recognition for her performances in the roles of Maruja in the play Tres Marías y una Rosa (1979) and Kiki Blanche in the telenovela Bellas y audaces (1988). She has developed a career spanning 50 years, in which she gained popularity mainly as a theater and television actress.
Dylan Holmes Williams is a British film director and screenwriter based in London.
María Gracia Andrea Omegna Vergara is a Chilean actress. She is known for the productions Dama y obrero and Papá a la deriva, as well as the film Joven y alocada.
