30 years of Alicia Vega's Children's Film Workshop (1985 – 2015)

Alicia Vega

Film researcher. Teacher. He studies at the Film Institute of the Catholic University of Chile, directed by Rafael Sánchez. 

For thirty years, between 1930 and 1990, she worked as a professor of Film Appreciation in various teaching centers of the Catholic University (Pedagogical Institute, School of Art, School of Architecture, School of Communication Arts). She was also a professor at the Theater School of the University of Chile. Between 1985 and 2005 he created and directed the Children's Film Workshop, aimed at children from marginalized populations in Santiago.

The filming of this experience gives rise to the famous documentary One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train, by Ignacio Agüero. As an expert in film education, she has been invited by governments and cultural organizations from a dozen countries in Europe, Latin America and other continents. In 1979 he published his book Re-visión el cine chileno, which twenty-five years after its appearance continues to be a common reference work.

Towards the end of 2006, Itinerary of Chilean Documentary Cinema 1900-1990 appears, a fundamental contribution to the study of the subject. In 2000 he received a “Recognition of Artistic and Cultural Merit” granted by the Culture Division of the Ministry of Education. (Carlos Orellana, extracted from the "Dictionary of Ibero-American Cinema"; SGAE, 2011)