Aldo Francia

Aldo Francia

If there is a filmmaker who embodies the so-called New Chilean Cinema, it is Aldo Francia. Although he was the author of a short filmography of only two finished films, Valparaíso mi amor (1969) and Ya no basta con rezar (1972), France understood cinema from the first moment as a collective action and his individual authorship always remained in the background with respect to his most beloved creation: the Viña del Mar Film Festival. A pediatrician by profession, Aldo Francia developed as a self-taught filmmaker. As he recalls in his book New Latin American Cinema in Viña del Mar (1990), his first approach to cinema took place in Paris on a cold autumn afternoon in November 1949. "On one of those evenings in a small cinema in the quartier, on the side of Boulevard Saint Michel, where the film projector had just been turned off and the lights on in the room, we all found ourselves with tearful eyes, without any possibility of concealing it. They had just projected Bicycle Thief by Vittorio de Sica. And we had the feeling that something new had started in the cinema. At that moment, being already a doctor, I decided that one day I would also be a filmmaker" (Francia, Aldo. New Latin American Cinema in Viña del Mar Santiago: CESOC: Chile-America, 1990. 242 p.). The exhibition of the classic of Italian Neorealism left a deep impression in Francia. He soon got a Paillard 8mm camera and began a career as an amateur filmmaker. Paris in autumn (1957); Paceña (1959), about the indigenous neighborhoods of the city of La Paz; Carnaval (1960), filmed in Rio de Janeiro; and Lluvia (1961), made in the Latin quarter of Paris, were his first works. He later founded a Cine Club (1962), built the Cine Arte cinema in Viña del Mar, created a film magazine and, once all that was achieved, launched an international call for other amateur filmmakers from around the world. Thus was born the first Viña del Mar Amateur Film Festival (1963).In that city, the greatest Latin American film meeting of the time was held and Aldo Francia was its host par excellence. He discovered that his desire to make and learn was also a way to generate social change. The airs and graces of the revolution turned Viña del Mar into the ideal space for reflection and dissemination of a cinema in process.

  • Title : Aldo Francia
  • Popularity : 0.001
  • Known For : Directing
  • Birthday : 1923-08-30
  • Place of Birth : Valparaíso
  • Homepage : https://www.ccplm.cl/sitio/secciones/cineteca-nacional/cineteca-online/
  • Also Known As : Aldo Francia Boido
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Aldo Francia Movies

  • 1972
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    State of Siege

    State of Siege

    7.279 1972 HD

    Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's...

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  • 1969
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    Valparaiso My Love

    Valparaiso My Love

    6.8 1969 HD

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  • 1966
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    Solo

    Solo

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1972
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    Enough Praying

    Enough Praying

    7.2 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Enough Praying

    Enough Praying

    7.2 1972 HD

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  • 1964
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    La Escala

    La Escala

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    La Escala

    La Escala

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1969
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    Valparaiso My Love

    Valparaiso My Love

    6.8 1969 HD

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  • 1964
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    La Escala

    La Escala

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1972
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    Enough Praying

    Enough Praying

    7.2 1972 HD

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  • 1961
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    On the Day of the Dead

    On the Day of the Dead

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    On the Day of the Dead

    On the Day of the Dead

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    On the Day of the Dead

    On the Day of the Dead

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    Rain in the Latino Quarter

    Rain in the Latino Quarter

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    Rain in the Latino Quarter

    Rain in the Latino Quarter

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    Rain in the Latino Quarter

    Rain in the Latino Quarter

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1960
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    Carnaval

    Carnaval

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1960
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    Carnaval

    Carnaval

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1960
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    Carnaval

    Carnaval

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1961
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    Baile de los Chinos

    Baile de los Chinos

    1 1961 HD

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