One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train

Name: Cien niños esperando un tren
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1990-06-01
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Alicia Vega

Original title: Cien niños esperando un tren

19881988
55m

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8.0/10

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One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (1988)

Documentary

"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 ... Read all"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 Cath... Read all"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 worksh... Read all

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8.0/10

262

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Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination

Trivia
Alicia spent 30 years doing this workshop, until 2015; It reached approximately 6,500 boys and girls and in 2019 it was nominated for the National Award for Performing and Audiovisual Arts, which was finally won by Ramón Griffero.

Connections
Features The Arrival of a Train (1896)

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10/10

A documentary for future film makers

If you wanna know why it will be great to make a movie the children in this movie will tell you. Seeing the looks on their faces when they watch films of the Lumiere brothers or Charlie Chaplin is the best feeling you could ever experience sitting in your home watching a foreign documentary.

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