Aldo Francia

Aldo Francia was born on 30 August 1923 in Valparaíso, the son of Italian immigrants. A paediatrician who qualified in 1949, he discovered Bicycle Thieves in Paris that same year and taught himself filmmaking, at first in 8 mm. In 1962 he founded the film club of Viña del Mar, where he organised amateur film festivals and then, in 1967 and 1969, the first two meetings of new Latin American cinema. He directed two feature films, gave up filming after the coup of 1973, and died in Viña del Mar on 15 October 1996, according to Memoria Chilena.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaValparaíso, My LoveValparaíso, mi amorAldo Francia · 1969Cinema