Che Sandoval

Directing

Che Sandoval

Born 1985-01-01 · Santiago, Chile

Jose Manuel Sandoval better known as Che Sandoval is a Chilean director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Santiago of Chile in 1985. He studied in Escuela de Cine de Chile, where he did his thesis work and first feature film, titled "You think you're the prettiest (but you're the sluttiest)". The movie was selected in several festivals, such as BAFICI, Tolouse, San Francisco, among others, and won the work in progress of Viña Film Festival and best movie in La Plata Film Festival in Argentina and Cine B in Chile. It also received rave reviews from the public and press, becoming a cult film in its country. "Much better than you" (spin off of the first) is his second feature film, and it has been selected at official selection of Guadalajara, Toulouse, Sanfic and Bafici. In this last he won FEISAL award, granted to the best latinamerican director under 35 years old.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Much Better Than You poster
4.5

In this urban comedy, Cristobal, a father and businessman, sees how his wife is awarded a scholarship and moves to Spain, wanting to take him and their children along with her. Humiliated by this, he disappears and wanders throughout Santiago looking for sex. After a pathetic night filled with failures, during which he is unable to forget his conflict, the time to chose shall come: either his family or his ego...

Much Better Than You

2013

Much Better Than You poster
4.5

In this urban comedy, Cristobal, a father and businessman, sees how his wife is awarded a scholarship and moves to Spain, wanting to take him and their children along with her. Humiliated by this, he disappears and wanders throughout Santiago looking for sex. After a pathetic night filled with failures, during which he is unable to forget his conflict, the time to chose shall come: either his family or his ego...

Much Better Than You

2013

Here I Am, Here I'm Not poster
NR

Ramiro is a journalist that after being on a car accident, develops phobia to speed. Suspended from his job, a mysterious publisher commissioned him to write the unauthorized biography of Ana Patricia Jones Ahumada, a Chilean rock legend. The investigation leads them to start a relationship, until one day she dies in a car accident. Devastated, Ramiro meets a woman of identical features and try to reconstruct it the image of his beloved, but is this a coincidence? Free adaptation of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

Here I Am, Here I'm Not

2012

Dry Martina poster
5.8

Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.

Dry Martina

2018

Dry Martina poster
5.8

Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.

Dry Martina

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chuquicamata'90

No artwork available
NR

A man puts an advertisement in the newspaper and turns out to be a psychopath who waits for his victims with an axe. Inspired by a Charles Bukowski story.

Se Busca Otra Mujer

2006

No artwork available
NR

A man puts an advertisement in the newspaper and turns out to be a psychopath who waits for his victims with an axe. Inspired by a Charles Bukowski story.

Se Busca Otra Mujer

2006

You Think You're the Prettiest, But You Are the Sluttiest poster
5.2

Flirtatious, narcissistic teenager Javier makes a game of seducing girls. But when he gets dumped, his self-esteem takes a nosedive, and we learn that his apparent frivolousness masks a deeper complexity of character.

You Think You're the Prettiest, But You Are the Sluttiest

2010

You Think You're the Prettiest, But You Are the Sluttiest poster
5.2

Flirtatious, narcissistic teenager Javier makes a game of seducing girls. But when he gets dumped, his self-esteem takes a nosedive, and we learn that his apparent frivolousness masks a deeper complexity of character.

You Think You're the Prettiest, But You Are the Sluttiest

2010