Gabriela de Elqui, Mistral del mundo

A documentary about Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral. The filmmaker Luis Vera examines the life and work of the first Latinamerican woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gabriela Mistral. A woman whose story was that of a misunderstanding with the official culture in Chile, her native country; a story of a social fighter with solid convictions who decided to go to the world and communicate the truth. The truth of a person with love for children and vocation for teaching, who saw education as a transforming force in overcoming unjust social differences and in shaping of a real Latinamerican identity. The truth of a woman who rebelled agaist the chauvinist society and rejected the life in condemnation. The truth of a poet who sang for the most humble, for those in need, with no expectation that her words would lead a way to the Nobel Prize in 1945, the first Nobel Prize in Literature to go to a Latinamerican woman writer.