Hugo Covarrubias

Birth : 1977-11-02, Santiago, Chile

History

Hugo Covarrubias is a Chilean stop-motion director and animator. He is the founder of the Maleza theater company, pioneers in mixing theater with animation, where he co-directs the plays "Maleza" and "Un Poco Invisible". Director of the short films "El Almohadón de Plumas" and "La Noche Boca Arriba". With Zumbástico Studios, he has directed the series "El Ogro y el Pollo", "Horacio y los Plasticines" and is co-creator and director of the series "Puerto Papel". He was the art director of the series "Zander" and the director of his third short film "Bestia"

Movies

Bestia
Writer
Inspired by real events, “Bestia” enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Bestia
Editor
Inspired by real events, “Bestia” enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Bestia
Director of Photography
Inspired by real events, “Bestia” enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Bestia
Animation
Inspired by real events, “Bestia” enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Bestia
Production Design
Inspired by real events, “Bestia” enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Bestia
Director
Inspired by real events, “Bestia” enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
La Noche Boca Arriba
Screenplay
A man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.
La Noche Boca Arriba
Director
A man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.
El Almohadón de Plumas
Director of Photography
Animation short based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.
El Almohadón de Plumas
Animation
Animation short based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.
El Almohadón de Plumas
Screenplay
Animation short based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.
El Almohadón de Plumas
Director
Animation short based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.