With South American and especially Chilean films emerging on the International scene, we got a chance to sit down with Antonella Estevez, co-founder of the 1st annual Festival de Cine de Mujueres in Chile, and Paula Tejeda of Chile Lindo’s cultural interchange program. This festival runs from March 16 through March 20. is dedicated not only giving female film-makers a venue to present their work, but also to feature films and shorts that are thematically feminine, regardless of who made them.

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The Bullet began this year’s bicentennial festivities by welcoming in cueca band, El Trompo Cucarro into our studios for a interview and a sampling of their folkloric songs with vocalist, Felipe Salinas; Alex Sepúlveda on guitar and voice; Gonzalo Ossó on bass; Francisco Trivelli on the accordion and vocalist Andrea Martinez. They play cuecas, the national folkloric dance of Chile, is danced especially during Deciocho, Sept 18th, Chile’s independence Day.

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The Bullet welcomed singer songwriter, Angelo Pierattini, formerly of Weichafe, into the studio for a lively conversation about life, music and how Chilean men are similar to their beaches. And of course, to share some of his songs from his second solo CD, “Vampiros,” in an acoustic live performance.

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The Bullet sat down with theater group, Compañía Cronopios de Teatro , to talk about the development of their show “Los Viajes de Violeta,” planned to be preformed for the Chilean bicentennial, (“Fondas” are venues within temporary fairs set up in parks all over the country, often made of tree branches or tents, prepared and decorated for the Fiestas Patrias for a week of traditional Chilean food, games, drinks, dancing and crafts.)
Director, Fernando Olmos, actress and singer, Estella Vergaza and musician, Marcelo Paredes talks about the life and significance of artist Violeta Parra for the group, the show and to Chileans in general.

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This week the Bullet had a little heart to heart with, Federico Wolf, Uruguayan singer and songwriter. He shared how he came to be in Chile from Uruguay, his experience in the Vina del Mar folkloric competition of 2004 where he won 2nd place, also he performed a new song improvised live in-studio.

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In today’s podcast, The Bullet sat down with Juan Pablo Garuti and Claudio Vera of the Automatics a fairly new-on-the-scene Santiago band and chatted about how their self-described post-punk band came to be.

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