Claudio Araya Silva

Born in Santiago, he lived in Bolivia for 35 years, creating the independent film company Diabla Cine. He directed, scripted and produced the feature film The Worst of Desires (2018), the documentary trilogy about mining and family in the Atacama Desert (2017-2021). And The Brittle Bones of Death (2021) Between 2016 and 2021, Accompany a group of academic experts and he made the documentary trilogy on mining life and the Atacama desert with funds from Conycit (Chile). Very young, he developed his first artistic approaches at the hands of the painter Osvaldo Silva Castellón, his grandfather. He accompanied in his exile in Venezuela and introduced him to an unknown cinematography for a 12-year-old adolescent. At the age of 16 years old, he began to show artistic talent and became a member of the professional theater group The Free Expresion Society, conducted by the outstanding playwright Diego Aramburo. From there he deepens on the dramatic art. In his early years, he lived with his mother in the Mizque Valley, a rural area far from the city, where there was no electricity and life was simple. There he lived unique life experiences in the countryside, and studied at elementary school with his local partners.