On 4 October 2017, Google celebrated her 100th birthday with a Google Doodle. "Violeta Went to Heaven" (Spanish: "Violeta se fue a los cielos") is a 2011 Chilean biopic about singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, directed by Andrés Wood. The film is based on an eponymous book, a biography, written by Ángel Parra, Violeta's son with Luis Cereceda Arenas. Parra collaborated on the film. The film was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. The film won Sundance's 2012 World Cinema Dramatic Jury Prize.