Patricio Guzmán

Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director, screenwriter, director. He is most known for his film trilogy The Battle of Chile (1975–1979) and more recently for another trilogy; Nostalgia for the Light, The Pearl Button (2015) and The Cordillera of Dreams (2019).

Career Guzmán also teaches documentary film classes in Europe and Latin America, and is the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival of Santiago (FIDOCS). He lives 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.

Filmography La Tortura y otras formas de diálogo — 1968 El Paraíso ortopédico — 1969 Primer año — 1971 La Respuesta de octubre — 1972 La Batalla de Chile: La insurrección de la burguesía — 1975 La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado — 1977 La Batalla de Chile: El poder popular — 1979 The Compass Rose (Rosa de los vientos) — 1983 En nombre de Dios — 1987 La Cruz del Sur — 1992 Pueblo en vilo — 1995 Chile, Obstinate Memory (Chile, la memoria obstinada) — 1997 La Isla de Robinson Crusoe — 1999 Invocación — 2000 Le Cas Pinochet — 2001 Madrid — 2002 Salvador Allende — 2004 Mon Jules Verne — 2005 (TV) Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz) — 2010 The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) — 2015 The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillera de los sueños) — 2019 My Imaginary Country (Mi país imaginario) — 2022

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