Acting
Manuel Peña
Valparaíso, Chile
Acting credits
6.9Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.
Our Father
2006
5.1A music student’s testimony ignites a feminist uprising on her campus, where protest becomes performance and collective voice becomes an act of resistance.
The Wave
2025
4.8Cecilia Ureta, host of Chile's highest-rated news show, announces the results of a United Nations survey, the conclusion of which states that 62% of Chilean women are or have never been unfaithful. Ironically, Cecilia maintains an extramarital relationship with the network's owner. Maliciously, a rival colleague discovers this during a live broadcast, with tragic results. The revelation spreads becoming a conversation of national interest.
Unfaithful Women
2004
NRA man wakes up in a house that is not his house. He doesn't remember how he got there. A woman enters via Zoom, and they begin to piece together what the hell is going on. But as the minutes pass, the man discovers that he is nothing more than the pawn in a sinister plan.
"Midnight stories 1" - The deadly Pizza
2020
NRPancha Illanes is the black sheep of her ladies' college, after the constant insistence of her boyfriend she accepts the proposal of selling marijuana at the college. What at first seems like an impossible mission, soon becomes an electrifying game
Normal con alas
2007
NRIn the last horror story, realities become confused, leading to a devastating and absurd ending.
"Midnight Stories 4" - Veronica's Curse
2020
NRIn this love special of "Historias Nocturnas", an anonymous call will reveal many secrets from beyond the grave.
"Midnight Stories 3" - The Birthday Party
2020
A surreal Chilean road movie in which two wanderers come across an assortment of oddballs.
País de octubre
1990
7.4Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
My Tender Matador
2020
NRAn innocent woman who is recovering from a great loss, for which she volunteers at a help center. Suddenly, she receives a call from someone who claims to be a Martian, which will make her life take an unexpected turn.
"Midnight Stories 2" - The Martian
2020
6.3Radio Corazón recreates Chile's most successful radio show of all time. Composed of 3 fun, sexy and romantic short films based on true stories as told by the show's listeners to "Rumpy", an unparalleled radio host.
Radio Corazón
2007
4.3When Bruno, a filmmaker overwhelmed by alimony, receives an ultimatum from his editor to find a subject that help them with ratings, a political candidate appears.
El Derechazo
2013
5.7In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.
The Painting Lesson
2012
NRValeria has decided to make a study about low-income women as her university thesis. The town priest recommends her as subject a hard-working woman who is said to see the future while dreaming. As Valeria goes deeper in her research, she will increasingly commit herself to the reality of Elena, confronting her with her own accommodated status, while she waits for the return of the man she loves and whose promise was to come and look for her even though she was from far away
Dos mujeres de la ciudad
1990
5.6An architect witness the brutal massacre by the police of an anti-government meeting and escapes to a remote archipelago.
Archipiélago
1992
A female television journalist has a strange affair with a terrorist.
Mi último hombre
1996
2.0Four stories, four women; four women struggle for the liberation of their souls.
El último sacramento
2004