Violeta Parra News

Actress Francisca GavilA n grew up listening to the music of folksinger Violeta Parra in her home, quietly.

You'll like this if you liked Don't Look Back, Coalminer's Daughter, Frida, Walk the Line, La Vie En Rose.

The most celebrated of the three titles screening in Metro Cinema's Cine Chile series, you'd be hard-pressed to find a film with more Chilean content than Violeta Went to Heaven, Andrs Wood's portrait of Violeta Parra , the musician, composer, folklorist, visual artist and activist who spearheaded the Nueva Cancin Chilena movement.

Photo from AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center Actress Gina Rodriguez plays an East Los Angeles hip-hop artist who wants to make it into the big time in 'Filly Brown,' which also stars Lou Diamond Phillips as her father and Edward James Olmos as her legal aid attorney.