Pedro Chaskel

Known for EditingBorn 1932-08-02 (age 93)Germany

Pedro Chaskel, is one of the main precursors of the so-called New Chilean Cinema, as a director, cameraman and editor of numerous short and feature length films. An early emigrant from Germany at the age of seven, Chaskel became a Chilean national in 1952, and studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile from 1951 to 1954. That year, he became a founding member and animator of the Cine Club Universitario de la Federación de Estudiantes de Chile (FECH). A conspirator in the exhibition of films that did not come to Chile through the regular commercial circuit, Chaskel promoted, together with a group of contemplative people, a custom that was not very common in Chile: the cinema forum, or the debate organized after the film screenings that he did at the Central House of the Universidad de Chile. It was there that classics of German expressionism, Italian neo-realism and any film they had available were shown for the first time in Chile. In 1973, due to the military coup suffered by the government of President Salvador Allende, Chaskel is expelled from the Universidad de Chile by the military authorities, and travels abroad. Between 1974 and 1983 he settled in Cuba, where he worked as an editor at the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry (ICAIC), and since 1979, as a director and filmmaker for the same institute. In 1983, he returns to Chile. He works in film and video as an independent professional, working as an editor and director of documentaries. From 1997 to date, he has taught film at many Chilean universities.Read more

Movies & web series

Lizards' Tales

Che, Today and Always

Cantata de Chile

Venceremos

Una foto recorre el mundo

Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo…

The Battle of Chile: Part II

Road Signs

The Battle of Chile: Part III

The Battle of Chile: Part I

Day of the Organ Grinders

Jackal of Nahueltoro

Tres miradas a la calle

Abortion

Yo tenía un camarada

Deja que los perros ladren

Testimony

It's Not Time to Cry

The Revolt

Nada pertenece a la memoria

Perla

De vida y de muerte, testimonios de la Operación Cóndor

Buscando Isla de Pascua, la película perdida

La Revolución de los Pingüinos

Organilleros

¿Y... si fuera cierto?

Neruda en el corazón

Valdivia 1960, El Gran Terremoto

Por la vida

Imágenes de Un Primero de Mayo

Somos +

Constructor Cada Día, Compañero

¿Qué es?

Recado de Chile

Eyes Like My Dad

The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People

Descomedidos y chascones

Entre ponerle y no ponerle...

Érase una vez

El Analfabeto

Angelito

Ana

Aquí vivieron

Parkinsonismo y cirugía

Imágenes Antárticas