Miguel Castro

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Miguel Castro Grimberg, engineer and filmmaker, was born in Santiago de Chile on

October 7, 1928. Within the framework of one of the University Film contests, he generated

one of his first short films, one of the best known, titled Avenida 18 de julio

(1951). His filmography is made up of the following titles: Holiday (1951), Brief

history (1952), It was once... (1953), Cariri (1953), Images (1955), Notes for a

final (1955), The yellow stripe (1962)17. He made a film for Cine Universitario, the

which they would later title as Ay, Uruguay. The tape was confiscated during…