Carmen Castillo is a French-Chilean filmmaker, scriptwriter, historian and academic, known for being a prominent member of the Chilean Resistance and Solidarity Movement.
MarÃÂa del Carmen Castillo EcheverrÃÂa was born on 21 May 1945 in Santiago, into an upper class family. Her mother, Mónica EcheverrÃÂa Yáñez (1920âÂÂ2020), was a writer, journalist, actor, playwright and feminist activist. Her father, (1918âÂÂ2013), was an architect, rector, politician and member of the Christian Democratic Party.
Through her mother, Castillo is the great-granddaughter of Eliodoro Yáñez, granddaughter of MarÃÂa Flora Yáñez and the great-niece of Juan Emar.
Castillo was educated at the University of Chile.
Before the 1973 coup d'état Castillo was a history professor and researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. From 1970–1971, Castillo worked with Beatriz Allende at the La Moneda Palace.
In 2025, Castillo was on the 78th Cannes Film Festival jury for the L'Ã Âil d'or.
In 1966, Castillo married Andrés Pascal Allende, a Chilean Marxist dissident and member of the MIR. The couple had one daughter, Camila Pascal Castillo, before later divorcing.
Castillo's son with EnrÃÂquez was born on the 29 December 1974 in London, and died on the 29 January 1975.
Castillo was the partner of French filmmaker Pierre Devert, with whom she had two children.