Marialy Rivas is a prominent Chilean director, renowned for her diverse body of work that encompasses feature films, short films, commercials, music videos, and television episodes.
Her filmography includes two feature films, "Joven y Alocada" and "Princesita", as well as three short films, "Blokes", "Melody", and "Desde Siempre". She has also directed numerous commercials, music videos, and television episodes, including several episodes for HBO's "Perry Mason" and BBC's "The Jetty".
Marialy's work has been recognized and celebrated at various prestigious film festivals worldwide, including the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival, Stockholm Film Festival, Havana Film Festival, and Bafici.
She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work, including the Best Screenplay award in the International Competition at Sundance 2012, the Maguey Award at San Sebastian 2012, and the Best Vanguard Film award at Bafici for "Joven y Alocada". Her short film "Blokes" won the Best Short Film award at the San Francisco Film Festival and Miami Film Festival, while "Princesita" won the Best Film award at Raindance.
In addition to her film work, Marialy has also directed over 500 advertising campaigns, including President Michelle Bachelet's presidential campaign in 2005. She was elected "Best Advertising Director" in the Ojo de Iberoamerica that same year.
Marialy is a Sundance Alumni, having attended two of its prestigious programs: the Screenwriters Lab in 2012 and the Sundance Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound in 2015. She has also received international funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, awarded by Sundance, to make her short film "Melody", which was later selected by the New York Times for their online series Opdocs.
Marialy has also won several grants from the Chilean government to produce and shoot her films, including "Blokes", "Joven y Alocada", and "Princesita". Her films have been produced by Fábula, a production company led by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín, renowned Latin American producers who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film with "Una Mujer Fantástica".
