Marcela SAID CARES

Marcela Said was born in Santiago, Chile. She graduated from the Catholic University of Santiago with a degree in Aesthetics, and received her master’s degree in Media & Language at La Sorbonne University. After four political documentary films, including El Mocito, which screened at the Berlinale Forum in 2011, she directed her first narrative feature The Summer of Flying Fish, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Her new film project, Small Talk, participated in the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab this past January. Small Talk is a film about a married woman, a silent victim of psychological violence, who starts a strange relationship with a riding instructor and former colonel with a suspicious and dark past.

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