Patricio Guzmán

Patricio Guzmán Lozanes August 11 1941 September 15 2026 was a Chilean documentary and feature film director and screenwriter He is most known for his film trilogy The Battle of Chile 19751979 and more recently for another trilogy Nostalgia for the Light 2010 The Pearl Button 2015 and The Cordillera of Dreams 2019 Guzmán also taught documentary film classes in Europe and Latin America and was the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival of Santiago FIDOCS He lived in France His 1983 film The Compass Rose was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival His 2015 film The Pearl Button screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival He received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for his 2010 film Nostalgia for the Light Guzmán died from cardiorespiratory arrest on September 15 2026 at a hospital in Paris He was 85