Carmen Luz Parot
Born
Carmen Luz Parot Alonso

1967 (age 56–57)
NationalityChilean
Occupation(s)Journalist, filmmaker

Carmen Luz Parot Alonso (born 1967) is a Chilean journalist and documentary filmmaker.

Biography

Parot graduated as a journalist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and studied photography with Héctor Ríos. She began her career working in various media, such as the newspaper La Época and the television channels Canal 2 Rock & Pop and Canal 13. On the Rock & Pop channel, she was editor of the program Plaza Italia.[1][2] She also worked with the musical group Inti-Illimani, making reports and music videos.[2]

The idea to create her first documentary, Víctor Jara: El derecho de vivir en paz, arose while doing a journalistic investigation on the Chilean singer tortured and murdered during the military dictatorship.[1] In the film the director used as much archival material – interviews and concerts of Jara – as later interviews with the singer's relatives and friends.[3] Later she premiered the documentary Estadio Nacional, that shows how the eponymous stadium was used as a detention center during the military dictatorship.[3][4]

Parot also documented the reunion tour of the rock group Los Prisioneros, which gave rise to the DVD Lo estamos pasando muy bien, which has behind-the-scenes content, as well as showing songs played at the concerts.[5]

On the occasion of the reform of the Copyright law of Chile, the director criticized some of its provisions, especially those that affected the work of documentarists. According to Parot, the exception for using works protected by copyright for informational purposes allowed the media to use parts of her documentaries without financial compensation, despite the fact that the media themselves charge for the incorporation of their materials into her films.[6][7]

In 2015 the documentary television series Chile en llamas premiered on Chilevisión.[8] Comprising seven episodes and presented by Humberto Sichel, the series shows some cases of censorship that occurred in the country.[9]

Filmography

  • 1999 – Víctor Jara: El derecho de vivir en paz
  • 2003 – Estadio Nacional

References

  1. 1 2 "Carmen Luz Parot". Cinechile (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 Mena, Rosario (April 2006). "Three women on a reality-recovery". nuestro.cl. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Carmen Luz Parot". Cineasta. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Taylor, Claire (9 May 2014). "Memoria Histórica de la Alameda". Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture. Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 9781317912088. Retrieved 14 October 2017 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Los Prisioneros: Lo Estamos Pasando muy Bien". bazuca.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  6. ↑ Parot, Carmen Luz (23 April 2009). "El valor de un fragmento" [The Value of a Fragment]. CIPER (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Los derechos de autor remecidos por la banda ancha" [Copyright Strikes by Broadband]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). 24 January 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Carmen Luz Parot: La documentalista detrás de 'Chile en Llamas'" [Carmen Luz Parot: The Documentary Filmmaker Behind 'Chile in Flames'] (in Spanish). Chilevisión. 11 September 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  9. ↑ Cerda M., C. (7 October 2015). "Chile en llamas: hoy se estrena nueva serie documental sobre censura" [Chile in Flames: New Documentary Series on Censorship Opens Today]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2017.
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