Dominga Sotomayor

Dominga Sotomayor studied directing at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, and earned a Master’s degree in filmmaking at ESCAC in Barcelona. She later developed her first feature, Thursday Till Sunday (2012), at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence. The film went on to win the Tiger Award in Rotterdam, a prize also given to her next short, La isla (2013), that she co-directed with Katarzyna Klimkiewicz. In 2015, she premiered Mar at the Berlinale Forum. Dominga Sotomayor co-founded, in 2009, Cinestación, a production company based in Santiago where she produces auteur filmmaking in Latin-America. She also co-founded Centro de Cine y Creación (CCC), an art­house cinema scheduled to open in Santiago in 2019.

Locarno Festival