Javiera Balmaceda

Javiera Balmaceda Pascal (born 1972) is a Chilean and American film and television producer, and the head of content for Amazon Prime Video Latin America, Canada, and Australia. Balmaceda's paternal grandmother, Juanita Riera Bauzá was the sister of Fernando Riera, a professional association football player and coach. The seventh great-granddaughter of Mateo de Toro Zambrano, Balmaceda is related to the aristocratic Alessandri, Allende, and Balmaceda family. Balmaceda is the great-niece of Laura Allende, a politician and sister of Salvador Allende, President of Chile, and is the second cousin of Denise Pascal, a Socialist Party politician, and Andrés Pascal Allende, a sociologist, former Secretary General of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left and prominent member of the Chilean Resistance and Solidarity Movement.

In 1975, aged 3, Balmaceda's family received political asylum in Denmark before settling in San Antonio, Texas.

Career Balmaceda first worked as an economist at JPMorgan Chase.

From 2014 to 2017, Balmaceda was the programming director for HBO Latin America. In 2017, Balmaceda began working for Amazon Studios and later became the head of content for Prime Video Latin America, Canada, and Australia.

Personal life Balmaceda is married to the Argentinian producer Fernando Gastón, with whom she has two children.