Birth: 9/8/1942 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Chile on 9 Aug. 1942 to Palestinian immigrant parents from Beit Sahour; began his filmmaking career in 1965 and made his first feature film in 1968, entitled The Jackal of Nahueltoro; became one of the foremost Latin American filmmakers and had five films featured at the Cannes Film Festival, incl. Tierra del Fuego (2000); was appointed to the post of director of Chile-Films under Salvador Allende in the early 1970s; was exiled from Chile after the Sept. 1973 coup and lived in Mexico and Spain during the Pinochet dictatorship; secretly returned in to Chile in the early 1980s to film an underground documentary on the conditions there, which won several international awards; Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote a book about this period, entitled Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (1986); after the end of the Pinochet regime, returned to Chile; filmed – largely in Beit Sahour – the documentary A Palestinian Chronicle (2001) and made a feature film, The Last Moon (2005), about two Palestinian families prior to 1948 (one emigrates to Chile, the other remains in Palestine) to be part of a trilogy that will also cover the period 1948-early 1990s and present-day Palestine.
