Manuela Martelli

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{{Infobox person

| caption = Martelli in 2006

| birth_name = Manuela Abril Martelli Salamovich

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|April 16, 1983}}

| birth_place = Santiago de Chile, Chile

| occupation = Actress

| alma_mater = Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

| image = Manuela Martelli (cropped) (cropped).jpg

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Manuela Abril Martelli Salamovich (born April 16, 1983) is a Chilean film and television actress and director best known for her roles in the films B-Happy and Machuca. She starred with the famous Dutch actor Rutger Hauer in the Chilean-Italian film Il Futuro, based on Roberto Bolaño's novel A Little Lumpen Novelita. Her feature debut 1976 was shown at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival at the Director's Fortnight section.{{cite web

| url =https://variety.com/2017/film/global/chile-cinestacion-italy-stayblack-team-manuela-martelli-1976-1202497340/

| title =Chile’s Cinestación, Italy’s Stayblack Team for Manuela Martelli’s ‘1976’ (EXCLUSIVE)

| last =Hopewell

| first =John

| date =2017-07-17

| publisher = Variety

| access-date =2024-04-04}}[http://diario.elmercurio.cl/detalle/index.asp?id={b8cf1d6a-3e89-4642-b739-3cff562b5055} Manuela Martelli: "No me imagino yendo por la calle y que me pidan autógrafos"] elMercurio.cl August 13, 2009

Biography

On April 16, 1983, Martelli was born in Santiago de Chile. Martelli's parents are Nicolás Martelli, of Italian descent,http://actrizchilena.blogspot.com/2007/08/manuela-martelli-ha-crecido.html interview with Manuela Martelli for actrizchilena.blogspot.com and Marian Salamovich, of Croatian descent.{{cite web

| url =https://www.strisciarossa.it/il-golpe-la-resistenza-il-riscatto-lepopea-del-cile-raccontata-dal-cinema/

| title =Il golpe, la resistenza, il riscatto: l’epopea del Cile raccontata dal cinema

| last =Emmer

| first =Michele

| date =2023-07-26

| publisher = Striscia Rossa

| access-date =2024-04-05}}

Martelli studied at Saint George's College, Santiago and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2010, she enrolled at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she graduated with a master's degree in film studies.{{cite web

| url =https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/en/director/manuela-martelli

| title =Manuela Martelli

| publisher = The Directors' Fortnight

| access-date =2024-04-05}}{{cite web

| url =https://www.cinemachile.cl/entrevista-exclusiva-opera-prima-de-manuela-martelli-es-seleccionada-en-prestigioso-wip-del-festival-de-toulouse-hablamos-con-el-equipo-manuela-martelli-omar-zuniga-y-alejandra-garcia/?lang=en

| title =MANUELA MARTELLI’S OPERA PRIMA IS SELECTED AT THE PRESTIGIOUS WIP OF THE TOULOUSE FILM FESTIVAL!

| date =2022-03-08

| publisher =Cinema Chile

| access-date =2024-04-05}}

She started acting in her teenage years. Martelli played the main role in the film B-Happy by Gonzalo Justiniano. Later she had roles in the TV series Huaiquimán y Tolosa and movies like Machuca, Radio Corazón and Malta con Huevo. In 2010 she appeared in Canal 13's telenovela Feroz.{{cite web

| url =https://www.torinofilmlab.it/people/1348207/Manuela-Martelli

| title =Manuela Martelli

| publisher =Torino Film Lab

| access-date =2024-04-05}}

In 2014, she emerged as a director with a short film, Apnea.{{cite web

| url =https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2014/10/09/manuela-martelli-y-su-debut-detras-de-las-camaras-siempre-he-querido-ser-una-directora-de-cine/

| title =Manuela Martelli and her debut behind the cameras: I've always wanted to be a film director

| last =Morales Lastra

| first =Enrique

| date =2014-10-09

| publisher = El Mostador

| access-date =2024-04-05}} Her 2015 short Land Tides was a part of Factory Programme and premiered at the Cannes Director's Fortnight. In 2021, she filmed her feature debut 1976. It was screened at numerous festivals around the world and won multiple awards, among them the Sutherland Award for best first feature at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival,{{cite web

| url =https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/1976-manuela-martelli-her-hitchcockian-thriller-about-life-under-pinochet

| title =1976: Manuela Martelli on her Hitchcockian thriller about life under Pinochet

| last =Slater Williams

| first =Josh

| date =2023-03-24

| publisher = BFI

| access-date =2024-04-05}} Best Debut Film Award at Jerusalem Film Festival, Best Actress Award at TIFF, Platino Award for Best Debut Film, etc.

In 2022, Martelli worked on a second feature, The Meltdown (El deshielo). It was presented at Ventana Sur’s 5th Proyecta co-production forum,{{cite web

| url =https://variety.com/2022/film/global/ventana-sur-proyecta-2022-edition-1235443996/

| title =Ventana Sur’s Proyecta Ramps Up Projects from ‘Memoria,’ ‘90 Minutes,’ ‘The Cow Who Sang…’ Producers

| last =De Pablos

| first =Emiliano

| date =2022-11-29

| publisher = Variety

| access-date =2024-04-05}} and won the second Coprocity Development Prize.{{cite web

| url =https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/453572/#cm

| title =Manuela Martelli wins the Coprocity Development Prize

| last =Lemercier

| first =Fabien

| date =2023-12-12