Juan Donoso

Directing

Juan Donoso

Born

1987-04-27 (39)

Place of birth

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Known for

Directing

Credits

3 titles

Juan Donoso is a filmmaker and producer specializing in the intersection of social movements and cinema, with a focus on land defenders, water rights, and energy production, impact campaigns, public relations, and community outreach for socio-environmental projects. For over a decade, he has been deeply engaged with the Atacama Desert and trans-local social movements, refining visual storytelling strategies to drive action and long-term change. His work has been featured in Deutsche Welle, Süddeutsche Zeitung, El País España, and CNN Chile. Key projects participation include Bertha Foundation fellowship, ESoDoc, Balkan Discoveries, School of Transnational Activism, Formando Rutas Educational…

Known for

Behind the camera

All We Have Is Us poster
10.0

Filmed over five years across the salt flats of Chile’s Atacama Desert and the fertile valleys of Serbia’s Jadar, ALL WE HAVE IS US chronicles the interconnected resistance against multinational mining giant Rio Tinto. Co-directors Aline Juárez and Juan Donoso follow Aymara journalist and land defender Leyla Noriega, actor Bojana Novaković, socio-environmental researcher and photgrapher Ramón Balcázar, and rural beekeeper Vladan Jakovljević. Refusing the tropes of passive victimhood, the film captures an intimate, choral portrait of agency and dignity—where community radio, ancestral memory, street protests, and cross-continental solidarity expose the hidden ecological and democratic costs powering Europe’s green energy transition and militarization.

All We Have Is Us

2026

All We Have Is Us poster
10.0

Filmed over five years across the salt flats of Chile’s Atacama Desert and the fertile valleys of Serbia’s Jadar, ALL WE HAVE IS US chronicles the interconnected resistance against multinational mining giant Rio Tinto. Co-directors Aline Juárez and Juan Donoso follow Aymara journalist and land defender Leyla Noriega, actor Bojana Novaković, socio-environmental researcher and photgrapher Ramón Balcázar, and rural beekeeper Vladan Jakovljević. Refusing the tropes of passive victimhood, the film captures an intimate, choral portrait of agency and dignity—where community radio, ancestral memory, street protests, and cross-continental solidarity expose the hidden ecological and democratic costs powering Europe’s green energy transition and militarization.

All We Have Is Us

2026

All We Have Is Us poster
10.0

Filmed over five years across the salt flats of Chile’s Atacama Desert and the fertile valleys of Serbia’s Jadar, ALL WE HAVE IS US chronicles the interconnected resistance against multinational mining giant Rio Tinto. Co-directors Aline Juárez and Juan Donoso follow Aymara journalist and land defender Leyla Noriega, actor Bojana Novaković, socio-environmental researcher and photgrapher Ramón Balcázar, and rural beekeeper Vladan Jakovljević. Refusing the tropes of passive victimhood, the film captures an intimate, choral portrait of agency and dignity—where community radio, ancestral memory, street protests, and cross-continental solidarity expose the hidden ecological and democratic costs powering Europe’s green energy transition and militarization.

All We Have Is Us

2026