Claudia Huaiquimilla

Mapuche director, scriptwriter and producer. She has taught film and screenwriting at the Universidad Católica, Universidad de Chile and Escuela de Cine. Her first short film San Juan (2013) was awarded at Clermont Ferrand. Contextualized in the Mapuche conflict, she writes and directs her first feature film Mala Junta (2016), winner of 40 awards and released in commercial cinemas in Chile and France. Currently, she's distributing her second film My Brothers Dream Awake (World Premiere at 74º Locarno Film Festival; Best Picture at 36° FICGuadalajara, 34° Toulouse, 28° Valdivia), and co-directing and co-writing the first Netflix original series in Chile, 42 Days In The Dark. In other activities, she has directed children's series financed by the National Television Council of Chile, with an emphasis on children, territory and sociocultural heritage, in addition to working as a script consultant for different fiction projects and as curator of the Exhibition of Indigenous Cinema + Video, in Chile.