Sebastián Sepúlveda

Sebastián Sepúlveda (born 1972) is a Chilean screenwriter, film producer, editor and director.

Life and career Sepúlveda was born in Concepción, Chile. He lived the first 18 years of his life between Europe and South America due to his family's exile from Chile during the military regime. On return to Santiago in 1990, he began studying history. Towards the end of the 1990s Sepúlveda studied at two prestigious film schools, La Fémis in Paris (screenwriting) and Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (editing) and began creating his first short films.

He was involved in editing and writing a number of films in the 2000s, including Young and Wild (2012).

Sepúlveda's directorial debut was the documentary O Areal (The Sandpit), about the Guajará community in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.

Sepúlveda received funding from Fonds Sud cinema (managed by France's Institut Français) to create his next film as director, The Quispe Girls. The film was based on the true story of the Quispe sisters who died in mysterious circumstances in 1974 and stars Catalina Saavedra as well as Digna Quispe, the niece of one of the Quispe sisters. The Quispe Girls won the audience's award at the FILMAR Festival of Latin American film and also screened at the Venice Film Festival.

Filmography Sources:

Director The Quispe Girls, 2013 O Areal (The Sandpit), documentary, 2008

Screenwriter The Quispe Girls, 2013 Young and Wild, 2012 Grado 3, 2009 Maria y el Nuevo Mundo, documentary, 2009 O Areal (The Sandpit), documentary, 2008

Editor The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), 2025, Spencer, 2021 Lisey's Story (series), 2021 Ema (film), 2019 Chicuarotes, 2019 Jackie (2016) El Club, 2015 Young and Wild, 2012 Ulysses, 2011 The Year of the Tiger, 2011 Maria y el Nuevo Mundo, documentary, 2009 O Areal (The Sandpit), documentary, 2008 The crime of Zacarias Barrientos, documentary, 2008 La León, 2007 Ralco, documentary, 1999 Sensibile Short, 1998

Producer O Areal (The Sandpit), documentary, 2008 Jo jo jo, short, 1996