One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train

Overview

Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Catholic church. The hundred or so children involved had never seen a movie, and in the workshop they see and learn about the cinema: photograms and moving images, projection, camera angles and movement, film genres, and much more. And they watch movies: Chaplin, Disney, Lamorisse's 'The Red Balloon,' the Lumieres' 'The Arrival of the Train to the Station.' Finally, each child designs his own film with drawings. And then, for the first time in most of their lives, the children got to the movies in downtown Santiago.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 1, 1990

Original language

Spanish

Spoken languages

spanish

Countries

Chile

Production

Channel Four Films,Valcine,Ignacio Agüero & Asociados,Channel Four Films, Ignacio Agüero & Asociados, Valcine

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0144829