Isabel Coixet Castillo is a Spanish film director. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts, and commercials. Her films depart from the traditional national cinema of Spain, and help to “untangle films from their national context ... clearing the path for thinking about national film from different perspectives.” The recurring themes of “emotions, feelings, and existential conflict” coupled with her distinct visual style secure the “multifaceted ” filmmaker's status as a “Catalan auteur.”
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films.
Paulo Branco is a Portuguese film producer.
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).
Three Sad Tigers is a 1968 Chilean drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Alejandro Sieveking, which itself was based on the novel Tres tristes tigres by Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante. It shared the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1969.
Antonino Isordia Llamazares is a Mexican film and documentary director known for making documentary films in a more cinematic style. His films have been shown at International Film Festivals and received awards in his native Mexico, Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. He has had a documentary feature film and a documentary short each nominated for Ariel Awards.
Antonio Giménez-Rico Sáenz de Cabezón was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.
Lines of Wellington is a 2012 Franco-Portuguese epic war film and television series prepared by Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and completed by his widow Valeria Sarmiento. Its title refers to the historical Lines of Torres Vedras.
Marcela Paz Said Cares is a Franco-Chilean director and screenwriter.
María Ruiz is a Spanish actress, known for her lead role in the film Summer Rain, directed by Antonio Banderas.
Monica Echeverría Yáñez was a Chilean journalist, writer, actress and a Literature professor. She defined herself as a feminist since "before people called it that" and called herself a "rebel" and "anarchist" in the face of the neoliberal economic course of the Chilean government.
Marialy Rivas is a Chilean screenwriter and film director, known for her 2012 film Young and Wild, winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award in Sundance Film Festival. She grew up in Chile during a violent dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Rivas is openly lesbian and has commented publicly that, "In Chile, it is of good taste not to say that you are gay, even if everybody knows it. People are usually infuriated by your sexuality if you are open. Nobody wants to know, so nobody wants to tell."
Carmen Brito Alvarado is a Chilean filmmaker, restorer, and editor. She is best known for rescuing important works of Chilean cinema.
The Wandering Soap Opera is a 2017 Chilean film directed by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento. Ruiz directed the film in 1990 and Sarmiento supervised the editing in 2017.
Luis Cristián Sánchez Garfias is a Chilean film director, writer and teacher. He is best known as one of the few who actively made underground film inside the repressive Pinochet regime and is a self-proclaimed adherent of the Poetics of Cinema of Raúl Ruiz whom he studied under at the Universidad Católica in the early 1970s and wrote a book about in 2011. His films El zapato chino (1979) and Los deseos concebidos (1982) were both shown at the Berlinale in 1983 and both figure in cinechile.cl's 2016 greatest Chilean films of all-time list.
Marilú Mallet is a Chilean film essayist who was exiled to Canada in the 1970s. Like Angelina Vásquez in Finland and Valeria Sarmiento in France, she is notable as one of the first Chilean women film directors, producing much of her work in exile.
Angelina Vásquez is a Chilean documentary filmmaker who was exiled to Finland following the 1973 Chilean coup but returned to film clandestinely during the Pinochet dictatorship in the early 1980s. Like Marilú Mallet in Canada and Valeria Sarmiento in France, she is notable as one of the first Chilean women film directors, emerging in the early 1970s but producing most of her work in exile.
The Tango of the Widower and its Distorting Mirror is a Chilean film directed by Raúl Ruiz in 1967 and completed by his widow Valeria Sarmiento for a February 2020 premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.
Marcela Osorio Méndez is a Chilean film and television actress.
Forgotten Roads is a 2020 Chilean romantic drama film written and directed by Nicol Ruiz Benavides in her directorial debut. Starring Rosa Ramírez Ríos and Romana Satt.
