Directing
Hugo Covarrubias
Born
1977-11-02 (48)
Place of birth
Santiago, Chile
Known for
Directing
Credits
6 titles
Hugo Covarrubias is a Chilean stop-motion director and animator. He is the founder of the Maleza theater company, pioneers in mixing theater with animation, where he co-directs the plays "Maleza" and "Un Poco Invisible". Director of the short films "El Almohadón de Plumas" and "La Noche Boca Arriba". With Zumbástico Studios, he has directed the series "El Ogro y el Pollo", "Horacio y los Plasticines" and is co-creator and director of the series "Puerto Papel". He was the art director of the series "Zander" and the director of his third short film "Bestia"
Known for
6.9Inspired by real events, "Bestia" enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Beast
2022
7.0Animation short based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.
El almohadón de plumas
2007
NRA man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.
La Noche Boca Arriba
2012
Behind the camera
6.9Inspired by real events, "Bestia" enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Beast
2022
6.9Inspired by real events, "Bestia" enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Beast
2022
7.0Animation short based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.
El almohadón de plumas
2007
7.0Animation short based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.
El almohadón de plumas
2007
NRA man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.
La Noche Boca Arriba
2012
NRA man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.
La Noche Boca Arriba
2012