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DIRECTOR
SEBASTIÁN SILVA
Sebastián Silva (Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1979) is a multifacetic artist whose body of work
includes painting, illustration and popular music.
After attending a prestigious catholic school, he studied filmmaking at the Escuela de Cine de
Chile for a year. He dropped out of film school and went off to Montreal to study animation,
but eventually he wound up selling shoes. That same year, he made the first gallery exhibition
of his illustrations and started a band called CHC (the band has recorded three albums).
On his second illustration show, a man convinced him of seeking Spielberg himself to pitch him a project. He
flew off to Hollywood. The mission was a failure.
On his return he started two more musical projects, “Yaia” and “Los Mono”, the latter of which would be
picked up for distribution by Sonic360 and published in the US and the UK.
He got a new exhibition of his dr awings, this time in New York. While in the Big Apple he wrote with Pedro
Peirano the screenplay for La Vida me Mata, his first feature film. Upon his return to Chile, he recorded a solo
album and produced La Vida me Mata with local production company Fábula.
After “La Vida Me Mata”, Silva wrote a screenplay about his trip to Hollywood, and then wrote The Maid (La
Nana) with Pedro Peirano. The Maid was produced by Gregorio González immediately after the team finished
the screenplay, in February 2008. On the second half of 2008 he wrote a new screenplay, “Second Child”,
which is currently going into pre-production in New York with Lee Daniels as producer.