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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Born in Santiago de Chile, she worked at the Palacio de La Moneda with Salvador Allende. Following the death of her partner, Miguel Enríquez, killed by soldiers, Carmen Castillo, who was pregnant at the time and injured in the event, was expelled from Chile and arrived in France as a political refugee.
She has directed several TV documentaries, especially for the French channels TF1 and FR3 and for the French-German channel Arte. The first was Los muros de Santiago (1983), followed by Estado de guerra: Nicaragua (1984). La Flaca Alejandra (1993) landed the Golden FIPA at Cannes, in addition to other awards at Geneva, Montecarlo, San Francisco and New York.
Carmen later directed La verdadera leyenda del Subcomandante Marcos (1995), Inca de oro (1996), El bolero, una educación amorosa (1999), First Prize at Annecy Festival, Viaje con la cumbia por Colombia (2000), María Félix, la inalcanzable (2000), El Camino del Inca (2001), El astrónomo y el indio (2002), First
Prize at the Scientific Film Festival in Paris, José Saramago, le temps d’une mémoire (2003), Mísia, la voz del fado (2003) and El país de mi padre (2004), Fidocs Second Prize at Santiago de Chile.
She also directed the feature film series for Arte, Tierras extranjeras, between 1994 and 1999.
Her latest work is Calle Santa Fé (2007), presented at Un Certain Regard at Cannes, to be screened in the Zabaltegi section at this year’s San Sebastian Festival. She also wrote the screenplays for Inca de oro and Color Habana, already made, and for Hasta luego and La montaña azul, currently at the pre-production stage.
Carmen Castillo has also published several books, including Un día de octubre en Santiago (1980), Ligne de fuite (1987) and Santiago/París, el vuelo de la memoria (2000), with Mónica Echeverría.
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