Carmen Castillo

Carmen Castillo is a French-Chilean filmmaker, scriptwriter, historian and academic, known for being a prominent member of the Chilean Resistance and Solidarity Movement.

Early life María del Carmen Castillo Echeverría was born on 21 May 1945 in Santiago, into an upper class family. Her mother, Mónica Echeverría Yáñez (1920–2020), was a writer, journalist, actor, playwright and feminist activist.

Career Before the 1973 coup d'état Castillo was a history professor and researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Personal life In 1966, Castillo married Andrés Pascal Allende, a Chilean Marxist dissident and member of the MIR.

Castillo was the partner of French filmmaker Pierre Devert, with whom she had two children.

Filmography (1983) Los muros de Santiago. Co-directed with Pierre Devert and Fabienne Servan-Schreiber. (1994–1999) Tierras extranjeras, serie de largometrajes de ficción para la cadena Arte. (1999) El bolero, una educación amorosa. Documentary. Director. (2000) Viaje con la cumbia por Colombia. (2001) El Camino del Inca. (2008) Desterria, un país llamado exilio. Documentary. (2010) El tesoro de América – El oro de Pascua Lama. (2017) Cuba en debate. Documentary. Director and story. (2019) .Documentary.