Sebastián Sepúlveda

Sebastián Sepúlveda (born 1972) is a Chilean screenwriter, film producer, editor and director.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.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.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.
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