Aldo Francia
Known for: Directing
Born: August 30, 1923
Died: October 15, 1996
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 sel…
