Jorge Mella

Professional Filmmaker. Producer, director, screenwriter and editor. Born in Santiago, Chile in 1973. Degree in Audiovisual Communication at the School of Communication Studies and Education in 1998. He has worked in the realization of audiovisual products for film, video, television, multimedia and Internet and in areas like fiction, science documentaries, astronomy, technology, education, environment, eco-tourism and conservation. He has taught at the mounting area and post-production in the career of Communication Studies at Duoc UC (Catolic University of Chile), as well as short workshops on "La Toma" and documentary workshops at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Chile, Playa Ancha. Moreover, in areas of special effects and animation, having knowledge for animatronic, combined with VFX. Partner and legal representative of the Maxilarfilms. Fiction Awarded with two National Audiovisual Development Funds (1999-2010) and a Pudu, prize in Valdivia Film Festival (2000). His most notable films are "Sobre mi sangre" and "Natacha y el cuarto espanto". In the documentary, as an editor, his latest work "The Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race" winner "Killanery Ireland Adventure Film Award" and an official selection at the Colorado Film Festival Breckenride U.S. and New Zealand Mountain Film Festival. For the next year 2012, he preparing a film launch in October "Natacha in the land of the Trasgo" and the Film "The Gravity of the Pugilist".