Dominga Sotomayor Castillo

Dominga Sotomayor Castillo (born 1985) is a Chilean filmmaker.[1]

Dominga Sotomayor Castillo
Born1985 (age 37–38)
Santiago de Chile
OccupationFilm director

Biography

She graduated from Universidad Católica de Chile with a degree on Audiovisual Direction in 2007, followed by a Master at the Escola de Cinema y Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC) in Film direction. She directed several short films that were shown at festivals internationally.[2] Her first feature film, Thursday Till Sunday (De jueves a domingo) was developed as part of the program La Résidence by Cinéfondation / Festival de Cannes, and premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it was awarded the Hivos Tiger Award.[3]

In 2014, her 60 min film Mar premiered at the Forum section at Berlinale.[4]

Her next feature Too late to die young (Tarde para morir joven), premiered at Locarno Film Festival, where she was awarded the Leopard for Best Direction. Dominga Sotomayor is the first ever woman to win this award.[5]

She was one of the seven directors of the feature film The year of the everlasting storm, alongside Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, David Lowery and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film premiered at Cannes' Special Screenings in 2021.[6]

Over the past few years Dominga has also taught film courses ang gave talk in Chile and abroad and made videos and photographs for exhibitions, like "Little Sun" (Olafur Eliasson, 2012) at the Tate Modern in London.

Recently she was one of he artist working for the Chilean Pavilion at the Biennale Art exhibition that opened in April 2022.

She's been part of Berlinale Talents in 2009,[7] and was a guest lecturer at Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies in 2020-23.[8]

Select filmography

References
  1. "On the road: Dominga Sotomayor on Thursday Till Sunday". BFI. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  2. "Berlinale: Informations «Mar»" (PDF). www.berlinale.de. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-04-23.
  3. "Festival Scope". pro.festivalscope.com. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  4. "Mar". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  5. "Leopard for Best Direction: Dominga Sotomayor". Locarno Festival. Archived from the original on 2018-08-19. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  6. "THE YEAR OF THE EVERLASTING STORM - Festival de Cannes". www.festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  7. "Berlinale Talents - Dominga Sotomayor". Berlinale Talents. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  8. "Harvard University: Dominga Sotomayor". afvs.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-23.


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