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Pedro Chaskel
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Pedro Chaskel, is one of the main precursors of the so-called New Chilean Cinema, as a director, cameraman and editor of numerous short and feature length films. An early emigran…
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Pedro Chaskel, is one of the main precursors of the so-called New Chilean Cinema, as a director, cameraman and editor of numerous short and feature length films. An early emigrant from Germany at the age of seven, Chaskel became a Chilean national in 1952, and studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile from 1951 to 1954. That year, he became a founding member and animator of the Cine Club Universitario de la Federación de Estudiantes de Chile (FECH). A conspirator in the exhibition of films that did not come to Chile through the regular commercial circuit, Chaskel promoted, together with a group of contemplative people, a custom that was not very common in Chile: the cinema forum, or the debate organized after the film screenings that he did at the Central House of the Universidad de Chile. It was there that classics of German expressionism, Italian neo-realism and any film they had available were shown for the first time in Chile. In 1973, due to the military coup suffered by the government of President Salvador Allende, Chaskel is expelled from the Universidad de Chile by the military authorities, and travels abroad. Between 1974 and 1983 he settled in Cuba, where he worked as an editor at the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry (ICAIC), and since 1979, as a director and filmmaker for the same institute. In 1983, he returns to Chile. He works in film and video as an independent professional, working as an editor and director of documentaries. From 1997 to date, he has taught film at many Chilean universities.
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2023
The Revolt
Movie Editorial Consultant
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2017
Nada pertenece a la memoria
Movie Himself
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2015
Perla
Movie Editor
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2015
De vida y de muerte, testimonios de la Operación Cóndor
Movie Director
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2014
Buscando Isla de Pascua, la película perdida
Movie Thanks
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2008
La Revolución de los Pingüinos
Movie Editor
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2000
Road Signs
Movie Thanks
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1996
¿Y... si fuera cierto?
TV show Editor
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1996
Organilleros
Movie Director
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1993
Neruda en el corazón
Movie Director
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1992
Valdivia 1960, El Gran Terremoto
Movie Editor
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1989
Lizards' Tales
Movie Editor
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1987
La Estación del Regreso
Movie Editor
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1987
Por la vida
Movie Director
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1986
Imágenes de Un Primero de Mayo
Movie Editor
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1985
Somos +
Movie Director
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1983
Che, Today and Always
Movie Director
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1982
Constructor Cada Día, Compañero
Movie Director
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1981
Una foto recorre el mundo
Movie Director
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1980
¿Qué es?
Movie Editor
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1979
Eyes Like My Dad
Movie Director
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1979
Recado de Chile
Movie Editor
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1979
The Battle of Chile: Part III
Movie Editor
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1976
Cantata de Chile
Movie
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1976
The Battle of Chile: Part II
Movie Writer
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1975
The Battle of Chile: Part I
Movie Screenplay
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1973
Descomedidos y chascones
Movie Editor
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1971
Entre ponerle y no ponerle...
Movie Editor
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1971
It's Not Time to Cry
Movie Director
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1970
Venceremos
Movie Director
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1970
Jackal of Nahueltoro
Movie Editor
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1969
Testimony
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1967
Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo…
Movie Editor
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1965
Abortion
Movie Writer
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1965
Angelito
Movie Editor
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1965
Érase una vez
Movie Director
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1965
El Analfabeto
Movie Producer
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1965
Ana
Movie Editor
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1964
Yo tenía un camarada
Movie Editor
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1964
Aquí vivieron
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