Alicia Vega

Alicia Vega

93 (1931-08-23)
Santiago, Chile

Alicia Vega is one of the main promoters of film appreciation in Chile as a method of social transformation. Throughout her life she has been researching and teaching about the importance of cinema, both Chilean and international, to the most diverse audiences.

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One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train 1990 (7.4)

Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Catholic church. The hundred or so children involved had never seen a movie, and in the workshop they see and learn about the cinema: photograms and moving images, projection, camera angles and movement, film genres, and much more. And they watch movies: Chaplin, Disney, Lamorisse's 'The Red Balloon,' the Lumieres' 'The Arrival of the Train to the Station.' Finally, each child designs his own film with drawings. And then, for the first time in most of their lives, the children got to the movies in downtown Santiago.
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Como me da la gana II 2016 (7.8)

Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to find out what is purely cinematographic in what they film. These conversations are related to images in the director's personal archive, as if what is truly cinematographic was found among bits that were never made for the screen.
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Buscando Isla de Pascua, la película perdida 2014

The documentary frames the reactions of Rapa Nui's people following the screening of -at that time- a presumed lost film involving their territory.
María Alicia Vega

María Alicia Vega

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Pantaleón 2019 (5)

Pantaleón, a country boy, is forced to go on a suicide mission where he has to shoot his own friends. Once at the front, he puts an end to the war.