Patricio Guzmán

Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director, screenwriter, director. He is most known for his film trilogy The Battle of Chile (1975–1979) and more recently for another trilogy; Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Pearl Button (2015) and The Cordillera of Dreams (2019).

Career
Guzmán also teaches documentary film classes in Europe and Latin America, and is the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival of Santiago (FIDOCS). He lives in France. His 1983 film The Compass Rose was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2015 film The Pearl Button screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. He received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for his 2010 film Nostalgia for the Light.

Filmography

 * La Tortura y otras formas de diálogo — 1968
 * El Paraíso ortopédico — 1969
 * Primer año — 1971
 * La Respuesta de octubre — 1972
 * La Batalla de Chile: La insurrección de la burguesía — 1975
 * La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado — 1977
 * La Batalla de Chile: El poder popular — 1979
 * The Compass Rose (Rosa de los vientos) — 1983
 * En nombre de Dios — 1987
 * La Cruz del Sur — 1992
 * Pueblo en vilo — 1995
 * Chile, Obstinate Memory (Chile, la memoria obstinada) — 1997
 * La Isla de Robinson Crusoe — 1999
 * Invocación — 2000
 * Le Cas Pinochet — 2001
 * Madrid — 2002
 * Salvador Allende — 2004
 * Mon Jules Verne — 2005 (TV)
 * Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz) — 2010
 * The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) — 2015
 * The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillera de los sueños) — 2019
 * My Imaginary Country (Mi país imaginario) — 2022