Biography

Academy Awards® nominee director and producer Maite Alberdi is the first Chilean woman to be nominated to the Oscars. She has developed a particular style that is characterized by the intimate portrait of small worlds. Her renowned label has led her to be one of the most important voices of Latin American documentary.

In 2011 she released her first feature film "The Lifeguard". Through her production company Micromundo Producciones, Alberdi directed her second film "La Once", that won more than 12 international awards, and was nominated for the 2016 Goya for Best Ibero-American Film. In 2016 she released the short film "I Am Not from Here", nominated for the European Films Award, and also premiered her third feature film "The Grown-Ups" winning 10 international awards. In Sundance Film Festival 2020, she premiered her film "The Mole Agent", the first Chilean documentary to be nominated to the Academy Awards®.

Maite Alberdi is the co-author of the book "Documentary Film Theories in Chile 1957-1973". She has produced the feature films: "Sexual Life of Plants", "Los reyes" and "God". She works as a professor in different universities, and teaches documentary workshops and project development in Chile and abroad. In 2013, she was selected as Global Shaper among young leaders by the World Economic Forum (WEF), and in 2018 she was invited to be a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science in the United States.

- IMDb mini biography by: Maite Alberdi