Daniel Dávila

Director | Writer

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Daniel Dávila was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1973, his family moved to Santiago de Chile in 1979. Later he got a professional designer degree at the Universidad Católica de Chile, then devoted himself to art, music, multimedia design and digital video post-production. In 1993 he founded art-rock band Luna In Caelo, creating the music and images for their albums, concerts and videos. In 1999 he moved for two years to Mexico City and entered as a in-house post-producer for the CCC Film School, where he started to work on feature films. Back in Chile, after working as VFX artist in Chilefilms / Cinecolor, he 2008 founded Kiné-Imágenes, a film post-production facility, doing the color grading for many Chilean and Latin-American films. In 2010 he created a large scale multimedia show for the Universidad de Chile called "Windows to Chile" in Santiago's downtown. "The Child of Plomo" (2020), his first feature film, is a experimental movie that merges his visual work with his own soundtrack.