León Errázuriz (born 23 July in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, who ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

) is a filmmaker now based in Los Angeles, USA. He is earned a degree in Economics at the

Catholic University of Chile The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

1991, and also studied for a few years at the

Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos The National School of Film Arts ( es, Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas or CUEC) is a public film school part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. It was influenced by the ''Nouvelle Vague'' and by the First C ...

of the

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

Mexican film school. Back in Chile he directed many commercials spots and his first feature film ''Mala Leche'' in late 2004, winning the Horizons Award at the 52

San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; es, Festival Internacional de San Sebastián, eu, Donostia Zinemaldia) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in ...

Awards

Altazor Awards The Altazor Award of the National Arts or simply Altazor, is a Chilean award which is awarded annually. The winners are chosen by the own creators and performers of the arts. They were established in 1958, but were not awarded until 1999. The a ...

: ''Best Director Drama Television'' with '' Huaquimán y Tolosa'' - 2007 * New York LaCinemaFe: ''Honorable Mention'' with '' Mala leche'' - (35mm,100 minutes) - 2005 *

Gramado Film Festival The Gramado Film Festival ( pt, Festival de Gramado) is an international film festival held annually in the Brazilian city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, since 1973. In 1992, the festival began to award Latin American films produced outside of ...

: ''Nominated'' with '' Mala leche'' - (35mm,100 minutes) -2005 *

Festival Cinesul Brasil A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival c ...

: ''Won'' with '' Mala leche'' - (35mm,100 minutes) -2005 *

: ''Won Horizons Awards with Mala leche''(35mm,100 minutes)- 2004 * 1999–2003 in two occasions he obtained awards from ACHAP (Chilean National Association of Advertising)

Filmography as director

* 2010 - ''Letter of Consuelo'' / a historical TV film about Land Reform in Chile (1971–1973) ( Chilevision) * 2010 - ''Free Falling Atacama'' / Feature Film (Director, Script, Editio

* 2009 - ''The Goatherd'' / Feature Film (Director, Script, Edition) * 2007 - ''

Caméra Café ''Caméra Café'' is a French-born concept of comedy television series exported around the world. Two movie spin-offs have been made in France under the titles of ''Espace détente'' and ''Le Séminaire''. It was originally a French television sh ...

'' / Director Pilot Chile / Serie TV ( 4K) * 2007 - ''Che Kopete la película''/ Feature Film (Director). * 2006 - '' Huaiquimán y Tolosa'' private detectives (Police comedy) / Serie TV ( canal 13) (director, original idea) * 2004 - '' Mala leche'' / Feature Film (Director, script, executive production, Edition) With his production company, Cine FX, he co-produced ''Paraíso B'' (2002), '' Sexo con amor'' (2003), ''Jemeaux'' (2003) y Huaiquimán y Tolosa Investigadores privados / Serie TV (2006).

Awards

Filmography as director

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