Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez

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Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez (born in 1986 in Moscow[1], Russia) to an Iraqi father and Chilean[1][2] or Chilean-Costa Rican mother[3] She is a director and scriptwriter. Director of El Camino, a film designed for the Latin American cinema, was described as an "impressive debut",[1] shot in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and France.

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Born in Moscow in 1968 and now settled in Costa Rica. Her father was a famous theatre director Moshe Yasin and her mother was a dancer and choreographer Elena Gutierrez, the daughter of recognized writer Joaquin Gutierrez. 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 went back to Russian to complete her academic and artistic training in Moscow, where she earned a master's degree in theatre 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.

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  • The Path (El Camino) (2007)

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