Marialy Rivas

Rivas in 2012.

Marialy Rivas is a Chilean screenwriter and film director, known for her 2012 film Young and Wild, winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award in Sundance Film Festival.

She studied in the School of Cinema of Chile, but withdrew in the third year. In 1996 she directed the short film Desde siempre, winner of the Santiago Short Film Festival, and was reviewed by the magazine Cahiers du cinéma.[1][2] In 2000 she directed the short film Smog, along with Sebastián Lelio.

In 2010 she directed Blokes, selected in the Short Film Palme d'Or competition of the Cannes Film Festival. It also got awards in the Lleida Latin-American Film Festival, and other 50 film festivals. His first feature film Young and Wild, was premièred on 21 January 2012 in the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Drama.[3] In May 2012 she obtained the Sundance's Directors and Screenwriters Lab award.[4]

Rivas is openly lesbian and has commented publicly that, "In Chile, it is of good taste not to say that you are gay, even if everybody knows it. People are usually infuriated by your sexuality if you are open. Nobody wants to know, so nobody wants to tell."[5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Marialy Rivas".
  2. ↑ "Marialy Rivas: La ganadora en Sundance trata de romper con el machismo en el cine chileno". EMOL.
  3. ↑ ""Violeta se fue a los cielos" gana Gran Premio Internacional del Jurado en Festival de Sundance".
  4. ↑ "Directora de Joven y Alocada logra apoyo de Sundance para nuevo filme".
  5. ↑ "Director Marialy Rivas on Her Provocative Film 'Young & Wild' Out in NYC and On VOD Today". 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2018-01-03.



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