Fernando García is a Chilean composer. Active since 1956 he has done orchestral music, chamber music, etc. He studied with Juan Orrego-Salas and Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, among others. His style is strongly influenced by serialism and aleatoric procedures. He also played a role in the beginnings of electroacoustic music in Chile, after a trip he made to France in the early 1950s where he heard musique concrete.
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).
The fifth annual Altazor Awards took place on April 5, 2004, at the Centro Cultural Matucana 100. The nominees were announced on January 22.
Lily Garafulic Yankovic was a Chilean sculptor, a member of the Generation of 40 artists, and museum director. Garafulic was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York City in 1944.
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.
Luis Alberto Acuña Gatillon was a Chilean writer and storyteller par excellence born in Iquique. He was Professor of applied chemistry, and taught at the former State Technical University for 26 years until his exoneration for political reasons.
Carlos Eduardo Maturana Piña, better known by his artistic pseudonym Bororo, is Chilean artist born in Santiago, Chile, on November 10, 1953. Along with Samy Benmayor, Omar Gatica, Matías Pinto D'Aguiar and Ismael Frigerio among others, he formed part of Chilean art’s 80s Generation. Bororo was his childhood nickname.
Juan Rojas Radrigán was a Chilean playwright, novelist and poet. He was awarded Chile's National Prize for Performing and Audiovisual Arts in 2011.
Aurora is a Chilean film written and directed by Rodrigo Sepúlveda. The film was shot in Chile and released in 2014.
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.
Elisabetta Perut Bozzolo is a Chilean journalist, film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for the documentaries Un hombre aparte and La muerte de Pinochet. Both of these were made in collaboration with Iván Osnovikoff, a director with whom she has done most of her audiovisual work in the documentary field.
The National Prize for Journalism, part of the National Prize of Chile, has been awarded since 1954. It was created by Law 11479 in 1953. It was granted annually until 1972, when Law 17595 changed it to a biennial prize.
Chameleon is a 2016 Chilean produced psychological thriller film written and directed by Jorge Riquelme Serrano. It had its world premiere at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival where it was selected to compete for the Sutherland Award.
The Santiago Municipal Literature Award is one of the most important literary prizes of Chile. Created on 5 February 1934 by the municipality of Santiago, the first awards were given in the genres of novel, poetry, and theater ; in 1941 essay was added, and in 1954, short story. 2013 saw the addition of children's and young adult literature, referential, journalistic research, and editing. The following year it was decided to extend the recognition of the works directed to minors, and to award children's and young adult literature separately, thus making a total of ten categories in competition.
Ramón Griffero Sánchez is a Chilean playwright and theater director, one of the most prominent in his country. He is considered an emblematic figure of the national theater during the 1980s; his earliest productions are associated with cultural and political resistance to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Antonia Santa María Monckeberg is a Chilean film, television, and theater actress.
Catalina González is a Chilean artist.
Chicago Boys is a Chilean documentary, written and directed by Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano and released in November 2015. The film tells the story of the Chicago Boys, a group of economists trained at the Catholic University of Chile who, after conducting graduate studies at the University of Chicago under professors such as Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, return to their country and, after Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship (1973-1990), become the main ideologues of the implementation of the neoliberal economic model in Chile.
The Mole Agent is a 2020 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Maite Alberdi. It was screened at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. At the 93rd Academy Awards, It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was selected as the Chilean entry for Best International Feature Film, making the shortlist of fifteen films.
Tomás Humberto Eduardo Vidiella Baigorrotegui was a Chilean actor, theatre director, and cultural manager.
