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Miguel Littin says "They are all films in order to have a better democracy. If you have a better world with more equilibrium in many ways we would have better justice. The hope is to have more happiness, equilibrium and a better way of living." TV director and producer, 1963; stage director and actor, and assistant on several films, 1964–67; founding member, Committee of the Popular Unity Filmmakers, 1969; named director of national production company Chile Films by Salvador Allende, 1970; made weekly newsreels for Chile Films, 1970–71; emigrated to Mexico following coup d'etat, 1973; member of Executive Committee of Latin American Filmmakers, 1974. Awards: Chilean Critics Prize, for El Chacal de Nahueltoro, 1970. The emerging fashion for Latin American "magic realism" in European and Amer