Directing
José Luis Sepúlveda
Known for
Directing
Credits
23 titles
Filmmaker, with studies at Universidad Arcis and at the School of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. His first feature film is "El Pejesapo" (2007), which becomes a true milestone of Chilean independent cinema, being exhibited at the Locarno Film Festival. His work is characterized by a marked militancy for the resistance and social cinema, approaching topics such as poverty, marginality and the lack of opportunities given in the class differences. Together with Carolina Adriazola she co-directs "Mythomaniac" (2009), "Chronicle of a Committee" (2014), Il Siciliano (2017) and Harley Queen (2019). He is co-founder of the Festival of Social and Antisocial Film FECISO.
Known for
6.1A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
2019
6.3Chronicle of a solidarity-political committee formed after the death of Manuel Gutiérrez, a 16-year-old boy who was shot by a the Chilean police during a night of protest in 2011.
Chronicle of a Committee
2014
NRSurvival in a collective space becomes hard in times when social manifestations can generate their own individuality.
El destapador
2012
NRSofía, a young journalist immersed in making an artistic documentary about the Chilean army, goes back to live with her grandmother after a breakdown in a relationship. There she meets María, a woman whose view of the military legacy contrasts with that of her grandmother, reflecting the tensions of a country marked by its history.
Cuadro negro
2025
NRThe psychology of crime inside prisons is collected through conversations with prisoners, who provide shocking testimonies and stark confessions, and with psychologists and lawyers who specialize in the material, in a critical view of the judicial system.
Armed Hand
2002
5.7Daniel SS is a maladjusted man whom, after a failed suicide attempt, tries to restart his life from Río Maipo to the centre of Santiago, on a journey in which he finds no reason not to kill himself.
The FrogFish
2008
Behind the camera
6.1A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
2019
6.1A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
2019
6.3Chronicle of a solidarity-political committee formed after the death of Manuel Gutiérrez, a 16-year-old boy who was shot by a the Chilean police during a night of protest in 2011.
Chronicle of a Committee
2014
NRSurvival in a collective space becomes hard in times when social manifestations can generate their own individuality.
El destapador
2012
NRSofía, a young journalist immersed in making an artistic documentary about the Chilean army, goes back to live with her grandmother after a breakdown in a relationship. There she meets María, a woman whose view of the military legacy contrasts with that of her grandmother, reflecting the tensions of a country marked by its history.
Cuadro negro
2025
NRThe psychology of crime inside prisons is collected through conversations with prisoners, who provide shocking testimonies and stark confessions, and with psychologists and lawyers who specialize in the material, in a critical view of the judicial system.
Armed Hand
2002
5.7Daniel SS is a maladjusted man whom, after a failed suicide attempt, tries to restart his life from Río Maipo to the centre of Santiago, on a journey in which he finds no reason not to kill himself.
The FrogFish
2008
5.7Daniel SS is a maladjusted man whom, after a failed suicide attempt, tries to restart his life from Río Maipo to the centre of Santiago, on a journey in which he finds no reason not to kill himself.
The FrogFish
2008
NRNora Diaz is an actress obsessed with acting and lying sick. She travels towards her obsessions by testing her characters in reality, on the street. Through them, she observes and listens to the conscious and unconscious inventions of a society, the Chilean one, where truth and lie are confused.
Mitómana
2009
NRNora Diaz is an actress obsessed with acting and lying sick. She travels towards her obsessions by testing her characters in reality, on the street. Through them, she observes and listens to the conscious and unconscious inventions of a society, the Chilean one, where truth and lie are confused.
Mitómana
2009
Short from José Luis Sepúlveda
Santiago
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NRAn old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.
Il Siciliano
2018
NRAn old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.
Il Siciliano
2018
NRAn old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.
Il Siciliano
2018
NRA man raised in a circus of drag performers recalls the dramas of his childhood at every turn. He wants his wife to die, travels to his past, and from there begins to live out that desire.
Ojos Volteadores
2004
NRA man raised in a circus of drag performers recalls the dramas of his childhood at every turn. He wants his wife to die, travels to his past, and from there begins to live out that desire.
Ojos Volteadores
2004
NRA man raised in a circus of drag performers recalls the dramas of his childhood at every turn. He wants his wife to die, travels to his past, and from there begins to live out that desire.
Ojos Volteadores
2004
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Dipolo Fase II
2024
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Dipolo Fase II
2024
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Dipolo Fase II
2024
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Dípolo Fase III
2025
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Dípolo Fase III
2025
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Dípolo Fase III
2025
