Maite Alberdi studied Film and Aesthetics at Universidad Católica de Chile. She is a writer-director which has developed a highly particular style that achieves an intimate portrayal of the characters she works with, through everyday stories in small-scale worlds.

She has written and directed three documentary feature films (“The Grown Ups”, “Tea Time” and “The Lifeguard”) and three documentary shortfilms (“I´m not from here”, “The hairdressers” and “The trapecists”).

In 2011 she premiered at IDFA her first and noted feature film “The Lifeguard”. Through Micromundo, her production company, she directed her film “Tea Time” (Funded by: ITVS, Berta Fund, Tribeca film Institute, FFA, CORFO) premiered at IDFA 2014, broadcasted during POV season 2015. “Tea Time” has received the following awards: AWJF-EDA Best Female-Directed Documentary IDFA, Best Documentary Award at: Miami International Film Festival, EIDF-EBS Korea, DocsBarcelona, FICCI Cartagena, FICG Guadalajara, SANFIC Santiago, among others. On 2016, she premiered her shortfilm “I am not from here”, best short film at Visions Du Reel 2016, and nominated for European Film Awards. In November 2016 she premiered her upcoming film “The Grown Ups” at the official Feature Length Documentary Competition at IDFA 2016.

She works as a teacher of documentary In Universidad Catolica de Chile, and is co-­writer of the book: Teorías del cine documental en Chile: 1957-­1973. (Documentary Film Theories in Chile: 1957-­1973).

Marcela Santibáñez is a Fulbright Scholar; she studied film at Universidad Católica de Chile. In the year 2014, she acquired her MFA in Film Producing at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.

She created and produced the TV Show “Chile Suena”, winner of the Chilean National TV Fund, which premiered on national TV the year 2014. She also worked in the distribution company “BF Distribution”, at the marketing department.During the years 2012-2014 she resided in Los Angeles. During her stay, she interned at Participant Media and Tugg Inc. She was one of the producers of the TV Pilot “Doubleblind” winner of the “2013 Outstanding Student Program Television/New Media Award.” During her stay she also produced 3 shortfilms, including “Age of the Moon” part of the upcoming James Franco omnibus, “Palo Alto: Killing Animals”.

Upon her return to Chile, she started working as Producer in Micromundo, director Maite Alberdi’s production company. She was in charge of the Goya Awards campaign for the film “Tea Time” and is the producer of the upcoming feature “The Mole Agent” which will premiere at the World Competition at Sundance 2019. She also produced the documentary “Flow” from director Nicolás Molina which premiered at Sheffield Doc fest 2018. Since 2019, she’s the director of programming at FIDOCS, Santiago International Documentary Film Festival.