Maite Alberdi


Maite Alberdi Soto is a Chilean producer, director, documentarian, screenwriter, and film critic.

Education

Maite Alberdi has a degree in Aesthetics and a degree in Social Communication from the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile.

Career

She is the Audiovisual Director of the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile, and teaches documentary directing at several universities. Her works as a film critic have been published on the site , a film studies magazine founded in 2005 in Santiago, Chile, with the objective to "open a field of debate and academic reflection, producing and disseminating unpublished material of interest for the cinematographic cultural field." She co-authored a book titled . She was invited as a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in June 2018, under the documentary branch. Her most recent work is acting producer for Los Reyes follows the lives of two stray dogs as "they wander around the oldest skatepark in the Chilean capital of Santiago."

Style and themes

As a director, Maite Alberdi takes interest in the intimate portrayal of the characters, often working with them over multiple years and curating a lasting relationship. Her style has been achieved through everyday storytelling in small-scale worlds, while also focusing great attention to normalize characters, highlighting different issues relating to disability, marginalization, often observing moments that are usually made private.

Filmography

Since 2004, Maite Alberdi has participated in taking on various roles in the making of each of these films. Films with their original Spanish titles are followed by their English translation, or English-provided title in parenthesis.