In 2006, he studied script writing at Universidad Católica de Chile and since then he has written, directed and produced a few feature films. In 2008 and 2009, he won the “Script Development Fund” of Chile with his feature films Manual de instrucciones para olvidar (Instructions to Forget) and Te invito a mi funeral (Invitation to my Funeral). In 2011, he moved to Madrid (Spain), where he started his studies as a Director and Screenwriter at the Madrid Film Institute. In 2013, he wrote, directed and produced his first full-length film, The Sad Smell of Flesh, which was released in the Forum of Independents of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The film also won the “Resistencias” section and the Fipresci Award at the European Film Festival of Seville and received a special mention for acting at Ourense Film Festival. At the end of 2013, he won a scholarship to be part of a screenwriting workshop in the Ibermedia Cinefilia program in Colombia. There he worked on the script of his film Invitation to my Funeral. He directed Faro sin isla (A Lighthouse without an Island) in 2014, which was released at Gijón International Film Festival and Ave y Nada (2015), premiered at Gijón International Film Festival and Cineuropa, among others. In 2016, he finished his fourth feature film, La declaración de los objetos, and won the Film Industry Award at Viña del Mar International Film Festival for the script of Invitation to my Funeral. In 2019 he releases his fifth feature film, As mortes, premiered at Gijón IFF.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón
