Maite Alberdi
{{short description|Chilean film director}}
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| birth_place = Santiago, Chile
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| alma_mater = Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
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| years_active = 2004–present
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| known_for = The Mole Agent
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Maite Alberdi Soto (born 29 March 1983 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean film producer, director, documentarian, screenwriter, and film critic.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinechile.cl/persona-4247|title=Maite Alberdi|website=Cinechile|access-date=15 November 2018}} She is the founder of Micromundo Producciones.
[http://www.micromundo.cl/en/home-2/ Micromundo Producciones website], Micromundo.cl. Accessed 31 July 2023.
She is internationally known for her film The Mole Agent (2020), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, being the first Chilean documentary film to be nominated for an Academy Award.[https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2021 2021|Oscars.org]. Accessed 31 July 2023. The film was also a nominee at the Goya Awards for Best Ibero-American Film.
Her next film The Eternal Memory furthered her international recognition. It premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim, winning the Grand Jury Prize. In Spain, the film won both the Forqué Award for Best Latin American Film and the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film. The Eternal Memory was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, being Alberdi's second nomination in the category.
For her documentaries La once (The Tea Time, 2014) and Los niños (The Grown-Ups 2016), she won the Best Female Documentary Director Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Career
Alberdi is a director and filmmaker from the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile, and teaches documentary directing at several universities.{{Cite news|url=http://archive.pov.org/teatime/bio/|title=Filmmaker Bio|last=POV|date=15 January 2015|work=POV {{!}} American Documentary Inc.|access-date=16 November 2018|language=en-US}} Her works as a film critic have been published on the website La Fuga, a film studies magazine founded in 2005 in Santiago, Chile, with the intent to "open a field of debate and academic reflection, producing and disseminating unpublished material of interest for the cinematographic cultural field." She co-authored a book, Teorías del cine documental en Chile: 1957-1973.[http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0052035.pdf Teorías del cine documental en Chile: 1957-1973]
She was invited as a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in June 2018, under the documentary branch.[http://app.oscars.org/newmembers2018/#Doc New Members 2018] She was also acting producer for Los Reyes, following the lives of two stray dogs as "they wander around the oldest skatepark (Los Reyes) in the Chilean capital of Santiago."{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/global/idfa-cat-docs-boards-los-reyes-1203018166/|title=IDFA: Cat & Docs Boards ‘Los Reyes’ (EXCLUSIVE)|last=Mayorga|first=Emilio|date=6 November 2018|work=Variety|access-date=31 July 2023|language=en-US}}
Education
Maite Alberdi has a degree in Aesthetics and a degree in Social Communication from the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile.
Filmography
Since 2004, Alberdi has participated in taking on various roles in the making of each of these films. Films with their original Spanish titles are followed by their English translation, or English-provided title in parentheses.
- In Her Place (2024)
- The Eternal Memory (2023){{Cite web |title=The Eternal Memory {{!}} 2023 Sundance Film Festival |url=https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/638a189677dd3dd429805822 |access-date=23 January 2023|website=festival.sundance.org}}
- The Mole Agent (2020)[https://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/masterclasses/director-masterclass-with-maite-alberdi/ "Director Masterclass with Maite Alberdi"]. Scottishdocinstitute.com. Accessed 31 July 2023.
- Los Reyes (The Kings) (2018){{Cite news|title=Los Reyes|language=en|work=Tribeca Film Institute|url=https://www.tfiny.org/films/detail/los_reyes|access-date=15 November 2018}}
- Los niños (2016)
- Yo no soy de aquí (I'm Not From Here; short film) (2016)
- Sex Life of Plants (2015)
- Propaganda (2014)
- La once (Tea Time) (2014)
- Verano (Summer) (2011)
- El salvavidas (The Lifeguard) (2011)
- Las peluqueras (The Hairdressers; short film) (2008)
- Los trapecistas (The Trapeze Artists; short film, 2005)
- Carrete Down (Reel Down; short film) (2004)
Awards and nominations
References
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External links
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- [http://ficvaldivia.cl/en/three-leading-filmmakers-were-present-at-the-second-voces-cine-panel-during-the-25th-edition-of-the-valdivia-international-film-festival/ Voces Cine Panel "Chilean cinema, industry and internationalization"]
- [https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/grown-ups-interview-moving-documentary-casts-downs-syndrome-new-light The Grown Ups interview: moving documentary casts Down's syndrome in a new light]
- [https://variety.com/2018/film/global/idfa-cat-docs-boards-los-reyes-1203018166/ _Cat & Docs Boards ‘Los Reyes’]
- [http://www.cinelatino.fr/en/filmcden/la-once-en "Cinélatino" La once/ Tea Time]
- [http://www.theclinic.cl/2013/01/30/el-salvavidas-de-maite-alberdi-lejos-de-baywatch-cerca-del-tabo/ “El Salvavidas” de Maite Alberdi: Lejos de Baywatch, cerca del Tabo]
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