Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán Lozanes ( born August 11, 1941 in Santiago de Chile, Chile ) is a director and producer of documentary films.
Life
Guzmàn enthusiastic already as a teenager for documentaries. Films by Louis Malle, Frédéric Rossif and Chris Marker influenced him. He studied in the early 1960s at the Universidad de Chile History and Philosophy and in the years 1963-1966 at the Film Institute of the Catholic University of Chile. After that he went to Madrid, where he completed at the Escuela Oficial de Cine from the examination as a film director.
After his return to Chile, he became director of the Workshop for Dokumental films of Chile film. His film about the first year of the reign of Salvador Allende in 1971 he exhibited finished. The film was shown in all of Chile. He began in 1972 with the films of his trilogy about Allende's last year. After the coup, the armed forces September 11, 1973 Guzmán was detained for 15 days at the National Stadium in Santiago de Chile. As Guzmán also had Spanish citizenship, he could leave with the finished rolls of film for the 4 1/2 hour Trilogy La Batalla de Chile to Spain. With the help of the Cuban Film Institute ICAIC the film could be completed and cut into Cuba.
Guzmán's another filmmaking continues to deal with issues of his homeland. In 1997 he founded the International Documentary Film Festival in Santiago de Chile. In the years 1997 - 2006 he was the director of the festival.
Guzmán lived in Paris together with Renate axis and has two daughters, Andrea and Camila who make films and work on his films from time to time.
His most recent film was praised its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. He is considered by many reviewers. For example, the time wrote:
" The fascinating documentary " Nostalgia de la luz " is the sum of the life's work of Patricio Guzmán. .. Documentary .. which - masterful sum of an obese life's work - the big life questions of the origin, Why and Where is ".