Isabel Allende
Also Known As: Isabel Allende Llona
Biography: Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer. She is best known for novels such as "The House of the Spirits" (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and "City of the Beasts" (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lima, Peru
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The Gifts of Grief
Overview: A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion, courage, and awareness. The personal and moving stories include those of author Isabel Allende, Reverend Cecil Williams, writer Alana Laraine, Zen Monk/Vietnam Veteran Claude AnShin Thomas, youth motivator Vinny Ferrero, and filmmaker Lee Mun Wah. With courage, these people invite the viewer to open up to the pain of grief and discover for themselves the extraordinary opportunities their own losses may reveal.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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A Fierce Green Fire
Overview: It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important - in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-01
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Viola Chilensis
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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The Power of the Heart
Overview: From the director of ‘THE SECRET’ comes this unparalleled and life-changing film about the astonishing power and intelligence of your heart. Featuring some of the most inspiring and influential icons of our age including Paulo Coelho, Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, Isabel Allende, and Eckhart Tolle, ‘THE POWER OF THE HEART’ – which ties into a book of the same name – is an experience that will lead you to uncover... and rediscover... the treasure in your chest.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-07
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Chile: The Other 9/11
Overview: On the morning of Tuesday, September 11th 1973, two jets launched a deadly attack on the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in the heart of Santiago, Chile. The result was fire, the suicide of President Salvador Allende and ultimately the death or disappearance of over three thousand people. "Chile: The Other 9/11" pieces together the dramatic hour-by-hour events of the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power and marked a turning point in the Cold War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Santiago Files
Overview: President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the South American socialist country into a dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Unfinished Diary
Overview: In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-02
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Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Overview: Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-02
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The Inconclusive Independence
Overview: Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-05
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The Naturalized
Overview: Weaving together the lives of different people from different countries who all share a quest for citizenship by choice, not birthright, this documentary travels from a citizenship class in San Jose to a naturalization ceremony in Iraq. Along the way, there's unprecedented access to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, revealing the complex process up close, including a marriage interview and the one-on-one Citizenship Exam. How many amendments are in the Constitution? To become an American, not knowing is not an option. Contemporary stories of struggle and success are combined with insightful interviews from notable naturalized citizens like Fareed Zakaria, Alan Cumming, David Rakoff, and Isabel Allende.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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