Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
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Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez was born in 1968 in Moscow
, Russia
to an Iraqi
father and Chile
an-Costa Rican mother She is a director and scriptwriter.
Director of El Camino, a film designed for the Latin American cinema, was described as an "impressive debut", shot in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and France.
. Her father is the acclaimed Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin and her mother was a Chilean ballet dancer and choreographer Elena Gutierrez, the daughter of recognized writer Joaquin Gutierrez
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Yasin's family settled back in Chile, not long before leaving in 1973, as they were threatened by players and supporters of the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet. In 1985, at the age of seventeen, Yasin followed in her father's footsteps and went to Moscow, Russia to the Institute of Art to complete her academic and artistic training, as part of her classes. Here she earned a Master's degree in Theater and Film Interpretation.
Her dramatic piece entitled Night Cadabra, had been released with great public and critical success in Buenos Aires, Chile and Costa Rica. In addition, her stories have enjoyed tremendous outreach in the Costa Rican literary circles.
Moscow
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, Russia
Russia
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to an Iraqi
Iraqi people
The Iraqi people or Mesopotamian people are natives or inhabitants of the country of Iraq, known since antiquity as Mesopotamia , with a large diaspora throughout the Arab World, Europe, the Americas, and...
father and Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an-Costa Rican mother She is a director and scriptwriter.
Director of El Camino, a film designed for the Latin American cinema, was described as an "impressive debut", shot in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and France.
Biography
Gutierrez was born in Moscow in 1968, and now lives in Costa RicaCosta Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
. Her father is the acclaimed Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin and her mother was a Chilean ballet dancer and choreographer Elena Gutierrez, the daughter of recognized writer Joaquin Gutierrez
Joaquín Gutiérrez
Joaquín Gutiérrez is an emblematic figure of Costa Rican literature, being one of the most internationally known of its authors. He was a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua, and won the Premio Nacional de Cultura, the top literary award in his country...
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Yasin's family settled back in Chile, not long before leaving in 1973, as they were threatened by players and supporters of the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet. In 1985, at the age of seventeen, Yasin followed in her father's footsteps and went to Moscow, Russia to the Institute of Art to complete her academic and artistic training, as part of her classes. Here she earned a Master's degree in Theater and Film Interpretation.
Her dramatic piece entitled Night Cadabra, had been released with great public and critical success in Buenos Aires, Chile and Costa Rica. In addition, her stories have enjoyed tremendous outreach in the Costa Rican literary circles.