Maite Alberdi

Maite Alberdi Soto (born 29 March 1983 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean film producer, director, documentarian, screenwriter, and film critic. She is the founder of Micromundo Producciones.

Education Alberdi graduated from the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile with degrees in aesthetics and social communication. Her works as a film critic have been published on the website La Fuga, a film studies magazine founded in 2005 in Santiago, Chile, with the intent to "open a field of debate and academic reflection, producing and disseminating unpublished material of interest for the cinematographic cultural field."

For her documentaries La once (The Tea Time, 2014) and Los niños (The Grown-Ups 2016), she won the Best Female Documentary Director Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

She was invited as a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in June 2018, under the documentary branch. She was also acting producer for Los Reyes, following the lives of two stray dogs as "they wander around the oldest skatepark (Los Reyes) in the Chilean capital of Santiago." In 2020, her film The Mole Agent gained international recognition and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, being the first Chilean documentary film to be nominated for an Academy Award. The film was also a nominee at the Goya Awards for Best Ibero-American Film.

Her next film The Eternal Memory furthered her international recognition. It premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim, winning the Grand Jury Prize. In Spain, the film won both the Forqué Award for Best Latin American Film and the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film. The Eternal Memory was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, being Alberdi's second nomination in the category.

Filmography Since 2004, Alberdi has participated in taking on various roles in the making of each of these films. Films with their original Spanish titles are followed by their English translation, or English-provided title in parentheses.

A Child of My Own (2026) In Her Place (2024) The Eternal Memory (2023) The Mole Agent (2020) Los Reyes (The Kings) (2018) Los niños (2016) Yo no soy de aquí (I'm Not From Here; short film) (2016) Sex Life of Plants (2015) Propaganda (2014) La once (Tea Time) (2014) Verano (Summer) (2011) El salvavidas (The Lifeguard) (2011) Las peluqueras (The Hairdressers; short film) (2008) Los trapecistas (The Trapeze Artists; short film, 2005) Carrete Down (Reel Down; short film) (2004)

Awards and nominations