Carolina Espina

Movies

My Tender Matador
Costume Designer
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
The Prince
Costume Designer
Chile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets “The Stallion”, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, “The Stallion” faces the violent power struggles within the prison.
Spider
Wardrobe Master
Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
Broken Panties
Costume Design
The imminent death of a matriarch forces her whole family to reunite. From her dying confession, other hidden episodes will come to light. Each of the family members will face what they would prefer remained buried. Nobody is free of killing for love.
Swing
Costumer
Due to financial difficulties, two couples decide to live together for a while. They never imagined this decision would lead to the biggest crisis between each one of them, after a night that makes them do an unexpected partner swap. But not everything can be shared, their relationships will never be the same again. Forced to live together, they must resolve their differences and face the consequences of their actions.
Spider Thieves
Costume Design
Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break into the apartments of the wealthy side of the town.
Neruda
Costume Assistant
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
Karadima Forest
Costumer
Based on true events, involving powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima, who committed crimes of child abuse and pedophile between 1980's-2000's. The struggle of his victims, to be able to reveal the truth and look for justice.
The Future
Wardrobe Master
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
The Passion of Michelangelo
Costume Design
An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story.
Viral
Costumer
GLEISDREIECK is a story about love, its different forms and the lies that are told in its name. In an austere audiovisual style, where the story unfolds supported by the performance of its three characters. Two very different departments located in opposite parts of Berlin, which Hedda visits to Petra and Zazie.
Viral
Art Direction
GLEISDREIECK is a story about love, its different forms and the lies that are told in its name. In an austere audiovisual style, where the story unfolds supported by the performance of its three characters. Two very different departments located in opposite parts of Berlin, which Hedda visits to Petra and Zazie.
The Painting Lesson
Costumer
In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.
Muñeca
Costume Design
Manuel and Pedro are extremely close friends. The first one is a women addicted while the other one is a solitary gay. Pedro can't find his way in life, Manuel sets up him in a blind date with some 40's woman named Gabriela, who is also in a hurry looking for a man in order to get pregnant. New changes in Chile inspire Pedro to do something never imagined for gay people: Being father.
The Good Life
Costumer
In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.
The Sacred Family
Costumer
It's Easter in the beach house of a Chilean well-to-do and nowadays family. A self-centered and successful father, a disoriented mother and a son overshadowed by his successful father. The three of them, wait for the arrival of the son's first official girlfriend; a disturbing and rebellious young lady who will invade the house with her powerful sexual load and other "gifts", breaking loose an emotional cataclysm with no stepping back.
Play
Costumer
A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet.
Mala leche
Costume Design
Two friends find themselves in search of their lost money after a drug transaction goes wrong.
Mala leche
Janis
Two friends find themselves in search of their lost money after a drug transaction goes wrong.
The Newcomers
Costume Design
The story of two brothers who get involved with a sexy stripper and her boss, the nightclub king of Santiago, as told from three perspectives.