Patricia Rivadeneira
Also Known As: Paty Rivadeneira, Las Cleopatras
Biography: Patricia Rivadeneira Ruiz-Tagle, born on August 6, 1964, in Santiago, Chile, is a distinguished actress and cultural manager with a career spanning over three decades in theater, film, and television. She began her television career in 1986 with the series "Secreto de familia," portraying Soledad Barca. Throughout the 1990s, Rivadeneira became a prominent figure in Chilean telenovelas, with notable roles in "Trampas y caretas" (1992) as Ana Rosa Astudillo, "Sucupira" (1996) as Regina Lineros, and "Aquelarre" (1999) as Rodolfa Patiño. In cinema, she collaborated with acclaimed Chilean directors, including Raúl Ruiz in "The Wandering Soap Opera" (1993) and Miguel Littín in "Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde" (2000). Beyond acting, Rivadeneira has been active in cultural management. Between 2001 and 2006, she served as Chile's Cultural Attaché in Italy under President Ricardo Lagos Escobar. Subsequently, from 2007 to 2011, she was the Cultural Director at the Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA) in Rome. In recognition of her efforts in promoting cultural ties between Chile and Italy, she was honored with the Order of the Star of Italy. In recent years, Rivadeneira returned to Chilean television, appearing in series such as "Perdona nuestros pecados" (2017–2018) as Estela Undurraga, "Juegos de poder" (2019) as Verónica Egaña, and "Demente" (2021) as Flavia Betancourt. Additionally, she co-founded Escenix, a digital platform dedicated to streaming Chilean theater productions. Rivadeneira's multifaceted career and dedication to the arts have solidified her status as a significant figure in Chilean culture.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
Adult: No
Birthday: August 06, 1964
Age: 60 years old
Gender: Female
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Vicente Ruiz: A tiempo real
Overview: It traces the work of Vicente Ruiz and his creative process, the emotional impulses behind his work and the constant search for change. With archival footage and testimonies, the documentary explores the social role of art through one of the leading figures of Chilean counterculture in the 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-05-19
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A Dark Light
Overview: Jorge becomes obsessed when he discovers that he has the same name as a young man who died. Upon investigating, he discovers that they also share an obvious physical resemblance. To Josefina, the young man's mother, the encounter with this man awakens a ghost she thought was asleep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-23
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We Will Burn
Overview: During a never-ending heat wave, Tiare (28) discovers that the bar she frequents feeds on human blood.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-08-21
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El Conde
Overview: After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-09-08
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Sussi
Overview: Sussi comes to the big city to find love and success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-05-23
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Aurora
Overview: After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-05
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The Future
Overview: When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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The Wandering Soap Opera
Overview: The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-08-10
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80s: El soundtrack de una generación
Overview: In Chile, during the mid 80s, a wave of young enthusiasts from different parts of the country decided to rebel against the regime and liberate themselves through rock. It was a new Chile, committed to fight for its ideals, and to have fun at any cost.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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Pinochet Boys
Overview: In the '80s, Tito, a 17 year old boy, faces a difficult choice: leave school and follow the road to university or front his past and take on a battle against the dictatorship. Motivated by Cecilia, who he secretly loves, and his father, Tito passes from an adolescence without worries to the responsibility of taking justice into his own hand. Integrity mixed with commitment, will crossed by want, fear associated with the pleasure of adrenaline, the reasons behind the violence, are the contradictions of Tito and his friends. In the end, Tito and his opponent Ricardo, a police officer who he knows since childhood, end up facing each other in a terrifying game. The type of game in which nobody wins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-08-23
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Exote: Filming Of The Wandering Soap Opera
Overview: A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-11
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Este mar sabe demasiado, Takilleitor
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-02-21
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La chica del Crillón
Overview: Teresa is a girl from Chilean aristocracy. She lives a double life, at day she dresses very elegant and fancy, while at night she assist to high society meetings at the Crillon Hotel in Santiago, where diplomats and wealthy people meet. However, her family is economically ruined after a bad sale of her father's mines and they have to live at Romero Street, where the working class lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-07-29
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The Sentimental Teaser
Overview: A young and excentric radio DJ airs a successful program in which diverse calls come in from anonymous listeners, who reveal their love stories, all charged with mix-ups, disputes and passion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-10-28
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The Lawless Land
Overview: Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to whatever love they can find.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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Caluga o Menta
Overview: Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class "loca", Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make this one of the key Chilean films of the Nineties.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-10-19
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Voice Over
Overview: A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-09-06
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Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Overview: In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments...
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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La Verónica
Overview: Veronica, a popular social media model married to an international soccer star, falls out of favor when she discovers she is the prime suspect in the investigation into the murder of her first daughter ten years ago. Faced with the pressure of the investigation, her marriage is on the verge of breaking up and she begins to feel jealous of Amanda, her newborn daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-07-13
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Near the River
Overview: Rocío is a single mother who lives isolated with her two children in Constitución, a town heavily affected by the fires in 2017 in southern Chile. Convinced that other people want to hurt her family, she strictly educates her children at home and doesn't allow them to leave, untill the point that her fears of the dangers of the outside world will put the in risk the life of her youngest child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-08-19
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El Claro
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Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: es
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Supernatural Stories
Overview: Anthology of six horror stories that explore the dark side of relationships. Each tale uses a supernatural to reveal inner conflicts, fears, desires and repressed emotions, forcing the characters to confront their worst fears.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
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