Esteban LARRAIN

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Esteban Larrain
was born in 1973 in Santiago, Chile. In 1997 he graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Chile with a thesis about Michelangelo Antonioni. Between 1999-2001 he studied cinema direction and cinematography in Cuba and Italy, in 2004 he graduated with a Master of Political Sciences from the Université Paris VIII, France. Esteban started his carrier with documentaries: between 1997 and 2004 he wrote, directed and produced three feature documentaries – Patio 29, Ralco and The Veil of Bertha – selected in more than 70 international festivals and has won several awards. In 2006 he began writing his first fiction feature, inspired by the hard and magical trip of a Bolivian girl who walked alone for more than 180 kms to find a job in Chile. Alice in the Land won the Special Jury Prize at Locarno in 2008 and is currently showing at many festivals. These days, he is in development of his second fiction feature The Virgin of Peñablanca, the mysterious story of a boy who, at the beginning of the eighties, was the center of a massive religious phenomena in which the government and the church measured forces in the middle of the worst period of Pinochet regime.
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