Cristián Sánchez | |
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Occupation | Film director |
Luis Cristián Sánchez Garfias (born 19 June 1951) is a Chilean film director, writer and teacher. [1] He is best known as one of the few who actively made underground film inside the repressive Pinochet regime and is a self-proclaimed adherent of the Poetics of Cinema of Raúl Ruiz whom he studied under at the Universidad Católica in the early 1970s and wrote a book about in 2011. [2] [3] His films El zapato chino (1979) and Los deseos concebidos (1982) were both shown at the Berlinale in 1983 [4] and both figure in cinechile.cl's 2016 greatest Chilean films of all-time list. [5]