Rafael C. Sánchez (Santiago de Chile, 1920). Graduated in philosophy, he also studied musicology, harmony and musical composition. His work and studies in cinematography began in 1939 at the San Miguel Studios in Buenos Aires. His professional ability led him to work, research and teach photography and laboratory, camera, lighting, compainación, sensitometry and laboratory, technical script and film direction. Founder and director for twenty years of the Film Institute of the Catholic University of Chile and then Head of the Film Department of the School of Communication Art of said University. From the seventies, he is accepted as a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) based in New York. From 1980 onwards he works as an academic partner at the Institute of Aesthetics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he taught various courses and seminars both nationally and internationally. He directed more than fifty films and also worked on many of them as a storyteller and colleague.3 He filmed a fiction film entitled The Body and Blood, one of the fundamental films of the so-called New Chilean Cinema, which also has music created by the French-Chilean composer