Marialy Rivas

Marialy Rivas is a Chilean director. Her work includes two feature films, "Joven y alocada" and "Princesita," three short films, "Blokes," "Melody," and "Desde Siempre," commercials, music videos, and episodes for the original Amazon series "La Jauria." Her work has been selected in different festivals worldwide, including Cannes, Sundance, Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, San Sebastian, Stockholm Film Festival, Havana, and Bafici, among others. She has received several awards such Best Screenplay in the International Competition at Sundance 2012, Maguey Award at San Sebastian 2012, and Best Vanguard Film at BAFICI for "Joven y alocada"; Best Short Film at San Francisco Film Festival and Miami Film Festival for "Blokes" and Best Film at Raindance for Princesita among others. She has also directed more than 500 advertising campaigns, including the presidential campaign of President Michelle Bachelet in 2005. That same year she was elected "Best Advertising Director" in the Ojo de Iberoamerica. Marialy Rivas is a Sundance Alumni; she has attended two of its prestigious and exclusive programs: Screenwriters Lab 2012 and Sundance Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound in 2015. She has obtained international funding awarded by Sundance by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to make her short film "Melody." This short film was then selected by NYTimes for their online series Opdocs. She has also won several times funds from the Chilean government to produce and shoot her films ("Blokes," "Joven y alocada," and "Princesita"). Marialy works at Fábula, a production company led by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín, renowned Latin American producers, winners of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film with "Una Mujer Fantástica."