Known For
Editing
Born
Aug 02, 1932
Place of Birth
Germany
Credits
45 titles
Pedro Chaskel
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Revolt
Editorial Consultant
Nada pertenece a la memoria
Himself
Perla
Editor
De vida y de muerte, testimonios de la Operación Cóndor
Director
Buscando Isla de Pascua, la película perdida
Thanks
La Revolución de los Pingüinos
Editor
Road Signs
Thanks
¿Y... si fuera cierto?
Editor
Organilleros
Director
Neruda en el corazón
Director
Valdivia 1960, El Gran Terremoto
Editor
Lizards' Tales
Editor
La Estación del Regreso
Editor
Por la vida
Editor
Imágenes de Un Primero de Mayo
Editor
Somos +
Director
Che, Today and Always
Director
Constructor Cada Día, Compañero
Director
Una foto recorre el mundo
Director
¿Qué es?
Director
Eyes Like My Dad
Editor
Recado de Chile
Editor
The Battle of Chile: Part III
Editor
Cantata de Chile
The Battle of Chile: Part II
Writer
The Battle of Chile: Part I
Screenplay
Descomedidos y chascones
Editor
Entre ponerle y no ponerle...
Editor
It's Not Time to Cry
Director
Venceremos
Director
Jackal of Nahueltoro
Editor
Testimony
Screenplay
Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo…
Editor
Abortion
Editor
Angelito
Editor
Érase una vez
Director
El Analfabeto
Producer
Ana
Editor
Yo tenía un camarada
Editor
Aquí vivieron
Director
Parkinsonismo y cirugía
Director of Photography
Deja que los perros ladren
Assistant Director
Day of the Organ Grinders
Producer
Imágenes Antárticas
Music
Tres miradas a la calle
Art Direction