Sergio Bravo

Sergio Bravo was born in 1927, in Los Andes according to the journal Primer Plano and the Turin festival, in San Antonio according to Luis Horta. A student of architecture at the University of Chile, he founded in 1957 an independent film creation centre, which he directed and which the university incorporated in 1960; he also restored the silent film of Pedro Sienna. Under the dictatorship, he shot a fiction film clandestinely and went into exile in France in 1982 to show it at Cannes. Returning in the nineties, he founded festivals of Amerindian and mining cinema and died on 7 September 2023.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaMimbreSergio Bravo · 1957Cinema