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Biography
Sebastián Sepúlveda (born 1972) is a Chilean screenwriter, film producer, editor and director.
Life and career
Sepúlveda was born in Concepción, Chile. He lived the first 18 years of his life between Europe and South America due to his family’s exile from Chile during the military regime. On return to Santiago in 1990, he began studying history. Towards the end of the 1990s Sepúlveda studied at two prestigious film schools, La Fémis in Paris (screenwriting) and Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (editing) and began creating his first short films.
He was involved in editing and writing a number of films in the 2000s, including Young and Wild (2012).
Sepúlveda’s directorial debut was the documentary O Areal (The Sandpit), about the Guajará community in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
Sepúlveda received funding from Fonds Sud cinema (managed by France’s Institut Français) to create his next film as director, The Quispe Girls.
The film was based on the true story of the Quispe sisters who died in mysterious circumstances in 1974 and stars Catalina Saavedra as well as Digna Quispe, the niece of one of the Quispe sisters. The Quispe Girls won the audience’s award at the FILMAR Festival of Latin American film and also screened at the Venice Film Festival.
Filmography
Director
- The Quispe Girls, 2013
- O Areal (The Sandpit), documentary, 2008
Screenwriter
- The Quispe Girls, 2013
- Young and Wild, 2012
- Grado 3, 2009
- Maria y el Nuevo Mundo, documentary, 2009
- O Areal (The Sandpit), documentary, 2008
Editor
- El Club, 2015
- Young and Wild, 2012
- Ulysses, 2011
- The Year of the Tiger, 2011
- Maria y el Nuevo Mundo, documentary, 2009
- O Areal (The Sandpit), documentary, 2008
- The crime of Zacarias Barrientos, documentary, 2008
- La León, 2007
- Ralco, documentary, 1999
- Sensibile Short, 1998
Producer
- O Areal (The Sandpit), documentary, 2008
- Jo jo jo, short, 1996
- IMDB Sebastián Sepúlveda Filmography imdb.com 2014 - retrieved on December 21, 2014
- Cine Chile database Sebastián Sepúlveda Filmography Cinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno / Santiago, Chile , By Gabriela González F. - retrieved on December 21, 2014