Gabriela Bussenius

Born Gabriela Teresa Bussenius Vega (1887-1975) was a writer, screenwriter, editor and film director. His father Luis Bussenius was a german engineer and his mother Teresa Vega was chilean. Married Salvador Giambastiani one of the pionners of cinema in Chile had 2 children. She was the first woman to direct a silent film in Chile La agonía de Arauco (1917) that was released on April 26, 1917 at the Unión Central theater and Alhambra cinema. After the death of her husband in 1929 she does not direct again. Gabriela Bussenius died in a forgotten nursing home in 1975.