Carmen Castillo

Born in Santiago de Chile she worked at La Moneda Palace with Salvador Allende After the death of her partner Miguel Enriquez at the hands of the military Carmen Castillo who was pregnant and injured was expelled from Chile and came to France as a political refugee She has directed numerous documentaries for television especially for the French channels TF1 and FR3 and for the FrancoGerman Arte The first was Los muros de Santiago 1983 which was followed by Estado de guerra Nicaragua 1984 La Flaca Alejandra 1993 won the Golden FIPA at Cannes in addition to other awards in Geneva Monte Carlo San Francisco and New York She then directed La verdadera leyenda del Subcomandante Marcos 1995 Inca de oro 1996 El bolero una educación amorosa 1999 First Prize at the Annecy Festival Viaje con la cumbia por Colombia 2000 María Félix la inalcanzable 2000 El Camino del Inca 2001 El astronomo y el indio 2002 First Prize at the Paris Scientific Film Festival José Saramago el tiempo de una memoria 2003 Mísia la voz del fado 2003 and El país de mi padre 2004 Second Prize Fidocs in Santiago de Chile He also directed the fiction feature film series for Arte Tierras extranjeras between 1994 and 1999 Carmen Castillos most recent work is Calle Santa Fé 2007 which was presented in Cannes Un Certain Regard and will be shown at this years San Sebastian Film Festival in the Zabaltegi section She has also written the scripts for Inca de oro and Color Habana which have already been completed and those for Hasta luego and La montaña azul which are in preproduction Carmen Castillo has also published several books including Un día de octubre en Santiago 1980 Ligne de fuite 1987 and SantiagoParis el vuelo de la memoria 2000 with Mónica Echeverría