José Luis Sepúlveda

History

Filmmaker, with studies at Universidad Arcis and at the School of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. His first feature film is "El Pejesapo" (2007), which becomes a true milestone of Chilean independent cinema, being exhibited at the Locarno Film Festival. His work is characterized by a marked militancy for the resistance and social cinema, approaching topics such as poverty, marginality and the lack of opportunities given in the class differences. Together with Carolina Adriazola she co-directs "Mythomaniac" (2009), "Chronicle of a Committee" (2014), Il Siciliano (2017) and Harley Queen (2019). He is co-founder of the Festival of Social and Antisocial Film FECISO.

Movies

Harley Queen
Original Music Composer
A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
Costumer
A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
Art Direction
A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
Editor
A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
Executive Producer
A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
Writer
A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Harley Queen
Director
A woman yearns to find her identity through her character:a supervillain, dancer and mother, in the Mena sector, or what they call "the largest ghetto in Chile", in Puente Alto, Santiago.
Il Siciliano
Editor
An old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.
Il Siciliano
Producer
An old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.
Il Siciliano
Director of Photography
An old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.
Il Siciliano
Writer
An old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.
Il Siciliano
Director
An old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.
The Club
Production Runner
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
Chronicle of a Committee
Editor
Chronicle of a solidarity-political committee formed after the death of Manuel Gutiérrez, a 16-year-old boy who was shot by a the Chilean police during a night of protest in 2011.
Chronicle of a Committee
Director of Photography
Chronicle of a solidarity-political committee formed after the death of Manuel Gutiérrez, a 16-year-old boy who was shot by a the Chilean police during a night of protest in 2011.
Chronicle of a Committee
Director
Chronicle of a solidarity-political committee formed after the death of Manuel Gutiérrez, a 16-year-old boy who was shot by a the Chilean police during a night of protest in 2011.
El destapador
Director
Survival in a collective space becomes hard in times when social manifestations can generate their own individuality.
Aztlan
Assistant Director
Two people in search of their true selves forge a friendship, bonded by their loneliness and the longing to belong somewhere, inside or outside of Chilean society.
Mitómana
Director of Photography
Nora Diaz is an actress obsessed with acting and lying sick. She travels towards her obsessions by testing her characters in reality, on the street. Through them, she observes and listens to the conscious and unconscious inventions of a society, the Chilean one, where truth and lie are confused.
Mitómana
Screenplay
Nora Diaz is an actress obsessed with acting and lying sick. She travels towards her obsessions by testing her characters in reality, on the street. Through them, she observes and listens to the conscious and unconscious inventions of a society, the Chilean one, where truth and lie are confused.
Mitómana
Director
Nora Diaz is an actress obsessed with acting and lying sick. She travels towards her obsessions by testing her characters in reality, on the street. Through them, she observes and listens to the conscious and unconscious inventions of a society, the Chilean one, where truth and lie are confused.
The FrogFish
Editor
Daniel SS is a maladjusted man whom, after a failed suicide attempt, tries to restart his life from Río Maipo to the centre of Santiago, on a journey in which he finds no reason not to kill himself.
The FrogFish
Writer
Daniel SS is a maladjusted man whom, after a failed suicide attempt, tries to restart his life from Río Maipo to the centre of Santiago, on a journey in which he finds no reason not to kill himself.
The FrogFish
Director
Daniel SS is a maladjusted man whom, after a failed suicide attempt, tries to restart his life from Río Maipo to the centre of Santiago, on a journey in which he finds no reason not to kill himself.