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Alicia Vega

Alicia Vega

Acting

Biography

Alicia Vega is one of the main promoters of film appreciation in Chile as a method of social transformation. Throughout her life she has been researching and teaching about the importance of cinema, both Chilean and international, to the most diverse audiences.

Known For

One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train
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Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Catholic church. The hundred or so children involved had never seen a movie, and in the workshop they see and learn about the cinema: photograms and moving images, projection, camera angles and movement, film genres, and much more. And they watch movies: Chaplin, Disney, Lamorisse's 'The Red Balloon,' the Lumieres' 'The Arrival of the Train to the Station.' Finally, each child designs his own film with drawings. And then, for the first time in most of their lives, the children got to the movies in downtown Santiago.

One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train

1990Movie