Marialy Rivas facts for kids
Marialy Rivas is a Chilean screenwriter and film director, known for her 2012 film Young and Wild, winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award in Sundance Film Festival. She grew up in Chile during a violent dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Rivas is openly lesbian.
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Career
She studied in the School of Cinema of Chile, but withdrew in the third year. In 1996 she directed the short film Desde siempre, winner of the Santiago Short Film Festival, and was reviewed by the magazine Cahiers du cinéma. Rivas says that she knew she wanted to be a director since she was seven. During her childhood, Rivas was not allowed to watch television so she went to the cinema three times a week and cites this as an influence in her decision to become a director.
In 2000, she directed the short film Smog, along with Sebastián Lelio.
In 2010, she directed Blokes, selected in the Short Film Palme d'Or competition of the Cannes Film Festival. It also got awards in the Lleida Latin-American Film Festival, and other 50 film festivals. His first feature film Young and Wild, was premièred on 21 January 2012 in the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Drama. In May 2012 she obtained the Sundance's Directors and Screenwriters Lab award.
In 2017, Rivas released her second feature film, Princesita which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won Film of the Festival at Raindance Film Festival.
Filmography
Young & Wild (2012) was Rivas’ first feature film, she was inspired to make the film from a blog that she stumbled upon. Rivas reached out to the writer of this blog and did some interviews with her, eventually going back to Pedro Peirano to help structure the film’s story. Later, she went on to write the script, showing it to Gutiérrez, the writer of the blog, to do all the dialogue and voiceover.
Princesita (2017) is Rivas’ second feature film and is about a 12-year-old in a cult that its leader believes to be the chosen one. Influences for the film’s style and look, Rivas looked to the work of Sally Mann and Bill Henson.
Awards and nominations
| Movie | Year | Nomination(s) | Award(s) | Festival(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desde Siempre | 1996 | Winner | Santiago Short Film Festival | |
| Blockes | 2010 | Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | |
| Young & Wild | 2012 | The World Cinema Screenwriting Award | Sundance | |
| Princesita | 2017 | Film of the Festival, Best International Feature, Best Cinematography and Best Performance | Raindance Film Festival |
See also
In Spanish: Marialy Rivas para niños
- List of female film and television directors
- List of lesbian filmmakers
- List of LGBT-related films directed by women
