David Bravo

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Director of Photography
Victoria, a mother addicted to the internet and work, is completely disconnected from her two teenage children, Clara and Julián. Just when he is about to receive that long-awaited promotion, a solar storm leaves the entire world without internet, indefinitely. With her ex-husband stranded in another country, she is faced with the reality that she has to be a mother without the help of apps or the internet.
Notes for a Film
Director of Photography
Belgian civil engineer Gustave Verniory still had a lot to learn when in 1889 he was hired to construct a railroad across the unspoiled natural landscape of Araucanía, a region that had recently become part of Chile. The tumultuous past and the ever-changing landscape are a constant background presence in Notes for a Film.
The Union
Other
The Amateur Soccer Referee Federation has a new board of directors, who face the challenge of renewing their image after a 90-year history. But these leaders receive a broke organization and headquarters that are in precarious conditions. They have also aged, but have nothing to lose and will work together to reinvent themselves.
Stealing Rodin
Director of Photography
One morning in June 2005, the guards of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, noticed that a millionaire Auguste Rodin sculpture had been stolen. 24 hours after the event a shy art student returns the piece arguing that he had stolen it as part of an artistic project. A documentary that explores the dilemmas of the artist and contemporary art.
Guerrero
Director of Photography
The murder of three communist professionals in March 1985, was one of the crimes with the biggest impact on the public eye during the Chilean dictatorship. Manuel Guerrero Ceballos was one of the victims and that day the life of his son Manuel changes forever.
A Boyfriend for My Wife
Director of Photography
Daniel reached the limit of his patience with his wife. The extremely temperamental Natalia is always protesting. But Daniel does not have the courage to ask for a divorce. Thus, he accepts the advice of his friends to hire a famous local Don Juan to seduce his wife and be she who deserted him.
The Color of the Chameleon
Director of Photography
During the Pinochet dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert became an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who forced him to work for them in an extremely violent way. He was able to escape from Chile and became a war photographer based in Belgium. Today, his son Andrés takes him back to the places of his unfinished past.
Como me da la gana II
Director of Photography
Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to find out what is purely cinematographic in what they film. These conversations are related to images in the director's personal archive, as if what is truly cinematographic was found among bits that were never made for the screen.
La ciudad perdida
Director of Photography
In the Aysén region dwell a population of 90000 isolated souls sharing the harsh landscapes of an area about the size of England. Here where beauty seems to be on first-name terms with fear and danger,in a place where the immensity of nature can never be dominated, the setting hesitates, along the expanses, between sparkling colours and the black and white of the snow and the water. The day-to-day images intermingle with a story of mythological aspect; that of the timeless quest for the Lost City of the Caesars, a city of gold built 500 years ago by the conquerors.
Quilapayún, más allá de la canción
Director of Photography
Quilapayún tells the story of the most important music group from Latin America: Quilapayún.
Chicago Boys
Additional Director of Photography
The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile in the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.
Beyond My Grandfather Allende
Director of Photography
Marcia, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, the first democratic socialist president who was overthrown by the Army in September 1973, seeks to reconstruct the personal and familiar image of her grandfather, buried by his historical person, her exile and the family pain.
Sal
Director of Photography
A screenwriter travels to Northern Chile to research his script for a Western thriller but ends up getting more than he bargained for.
Daughter
Director of Photography
A journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts
La Esmeralda 1879
Director of Photography
Revolves around the naval Battle of Iquique between the Peruvian ironclad monitor 'Huáscar' and the Chilean wooden corvette 'Esmeralda'.
La Gabriela: Una historia sobre Gabriela Mistral
Camera Operator
TV Movie based on the life of Gabriela Mistral. Gabriela's life is reconstructed, her travels as a diplomat, the relationship with her adopted son Yin Yin and her work as a poet until she received the Nobel Prize.
La Gabriela: Una historia sobre Gabriela Mistral
Director of Photography
TV Movie based on the life of Gabriela Mistral. Gabriela's life is reconstructed, her travels as a diplomat, the relationship with her adopted son Yin Yin and her work as a poet until she received the Nobel Prize.
The Gift
Director of Photography
A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.
Casa de remolienda
Camera Operator
Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married.
Casa de remolienda
Director of Photography
Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married.
City of Photographers
Director of Photography
A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.
Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal?
Director of Photography
Alberto, a young law student struggles to realize his ultimate dream: to follow the call of his priestly vocation.
Las bicicletas
Director of Photography
Nicolás is furious. Once again they broke into his house and took his bicycle. Outside, in the streets, the city is half destroyed by an earthquake. There is a curfew and Pinochet is asked if he is going to declare a state of catastrophe. Nicolás accompanies his mother to court to recognize the thief.
El Roto: Perjudícame cariño
Director of Photography
Paraíso B
Director of Photography
Leo and Pedro are childhood friends. Rhey work under the orders of "El Jefe", a thug, owner of the neighbourhood and the lives of its inhabitants. One day, Leo receives news that will change his life forever, Gloria, Pedro's sister and the love of his life, returns to the city. Leo and Gloria will walk through their memories, in an attempt to recover their lost love.
La hija de O'higgins
Director of Photography
A family history transmitted through the generations culminates with the discovery of the illegitimate daughter of one of the greatest heroes of Chilean independence, Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme. Through the story of Petronila Riquelme, various previously unknown aspects of O'Higgins' life are revealed and a search begins in Chile and Peru for the remaining traces of this story; A journey that involves the filmmaker, since it is the story of her family: Petronila is her great-great-grandmother.
Chi-chi-chi-le-le-le. Martín Vargas de Chile
Director
Feature documentary film about the return to the ring of a former box champion and his impact in the whole chilean society. Sport is only a pretext to investigate in the national identity. Thanks to that Martín Vargas is a phenomenon that crosses all the Chilean society, this documentary is a human and cultural x-ray of Chile, expressed in a plethora of personages and situations that give account of our original one, fascinating and many times pathetic national reality.
Chi-chi-chi-le-le-le. Martín Vargas de Chile
Director of Photography
Feature documentary film about the return to the ring of a former box champion and his impact in the whole chilean society. Sport is only a pretext to investigate in the national identity. Thanks to that Martín Vargas is a phenomenon that crosses all the Chilean society, this documentary is a human and cultural x-ray of Chile, expressed in a plethora of personages and situations that give account of our original one, fascinating and many times pathetic national reality.
Coronation
ADR Recordist
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
Coronation
Camera Operator
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
Coronation
Director of Photography
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
Ultraman
Director of Photography
Erwin Valdebenito is an anonymous and quiet man who works in a state office. At the same time, he is an athlete who trains daily for the sport he loves: the ultramarathon. Every morning, Erwin Valdebenito risks his life in the middle of the road, driven by a desire that grows more intense each day. Running to the limits of obsession means looking at the normal and the bizarre, where the mystery of every dream prevails.