Top 100 Latin American Directors
by minalex | created - 05 Dec 2012 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicThe best directors from Brazil (29), Argentina (24), Mexico (19), Chile (6), Colombia (6), Cuba (5), Uruguay (3), Bolivia, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname and Venezuela.
1. Mario Peixoto
Director | Limite
With just one film Mario Peixoto left a mark on cinema with his acclaimed masterpiece Limit (1931). The surrealistic and artistic film launched his film career but unfortunately due to several circumstances he never managed to release another film and outdo himself. Many Brazilian filmmakers were ...
2. Fernando de Fuentes
Writer | Allá en el Rancho Grande
Director of two classic films of Mexican Cinema, Compadre Mendoza, El (1933) and ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1935), De Fuentes began his career as second assistant director in Santa (1931), the first "talkie" produced in Mexico. His technical abilities promoted him to direct Anónimo, El (1932). De ...
3. Alberto Cavalcanti
Director | O Canto do Mar
Born in Brazil in 1897, Alberto Cavalcanti began his film career in France in 1920, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Nothing But Time (1926) ("Nothing but Time"), a portrait of the lives of Parisian workers in a single day. He moved to England in...
4. Emilio Fernández
Writer | La perla
Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez Romo is the most famous person in the history of Mexican movies. For an era he symbolized Mexico due to his violent machismo, rooted in the Revolution of 1910-17, and because of his staunch commitment to Mexican cultural nationalism. Born to a Mexican (Mestizo) father ...
5. Tom Payne
Actor | Sinhá Moça
Tom Payne was born on October 4, 1914 in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for Sinhá Moça (1953), Ângela (1951) and Sai da Frente (1952). He was married to Eliane Lage. He died on September 15, 1996 in Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
6. Luis Buñuel
Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...
A Spanish-Mexican director
7. Roberto Gavaldón
Director | El niño y la niebla
Roberto Gavaldon was the most prominent director of the so-called Golden Age of Mexican CInema. One of the supreme artists of the melodrama, Gavaldon was a rival to Old Hollywood movies. Gavaldon's movies, like contemporary director Emilio 'Indio' Fernandez, were popular and populist. Because that ...
8. Anselmo Duarte
Writer | O Pagador de Promessas
Duarte left his hometown, at 14, and moved to São Paulo where he started working as a typist in an accounting office. In the early 1940s, after graduating in Economics, he went to Rio de Janeiro, where he had a bit-part on It's All True (1943). He then made some appearances in radio soap operas and...
9. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Director | Memórias do Cárcere
Nelson Pereira dos Santos was born on October 22, 1928 in São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Memórias do Cárcere (1984), O Amuleto de Ogum (1974) and Tenda dos Milagres (1977). He was married to Ivelise Ferreira. He died on April 21, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, ...
10. Paulo César Saraceni
Director | A Casa Assassinada
Paulo César Saraceni was born on November 5, 1933 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for The Murdered House (1971), O Viajante (1998) and Capitu (1968). He was married to Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva. He died on April 14, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
11. Ruy Guerra
Director | Estorvo
Ruy Guerra left his studies in Portugal for to go to the School of Cinema in Paris. After having worked as assistant for various French directors he moved to Brasil and participated with his first two films in the birth of the "Cinema Novo": "Os Cafajestes (1962)" and "Os Fuzis (1964)" which won ...
12. Glauber Rocha
Director | Terra em Transe
He studied Law. He also directed theatre pieces, wrote movie criticisms and took part in the creation and development of the 'cinema novo' movement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, becoming its theoretical leader and first embassador in Europe. After "Barravento (1962)", a trilogy of films and "Antonio ...
13. Octavio Cortázar
Director | El brigadista
Octavio Cortázar was born on January 19, 1935 in Havana, Cuba. He was a director and writer, known for The Teacher (1978), Guardafronteras (1981) and For the First Time (1967). He died on February 27, 2008 in Madrid, Spain.
14. Leonardo Favio
Director | Aniceto
Leonardo Favio was born on May 28, 1938 in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for Aniceto (2008), Gatica, the Monkey (1993) and Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965). He was married to María Vaner. He died on November 5, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, ...
15. Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Cinematographer | A Herança
Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias was born on November 5, 1922 in Cajubi, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a cinematographer and director, known for A Herança (1970), O Vigilante (1992) and A Opção (1981). He died on February 8, 2007 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
16. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Director | Fresa y chocolate
Cuba's greatest and best-known director, Tomas Gutierrez Alea fell in love with cinema at an early age, began as a documentarian much influenced by Italian neorealism and came into his own as an artist during Fidel Castro's regime. Over the years he has evinced a fondness for both historical and ...
17. Humberto Solás
Director | Barrio Cuba
One of the great filmmakers of revolutionary Cuba, Humberto Solás entered the film industry as a teenager, and made his first short at 18. After taking a film course at Centro Sperimentale de Cinema in Rome, he made a big impression with his 1966 medium-length fiction "Manuela", the first of many ...
18. Jorge Sanjinés
Director | Yawar Mallku
Sanjines made his first feature film, Ukamau (1966), under the auspices of the Bolivian Film Institute, of which he was named director in 1965. A landmark in the history of Bolivian cinema, Ukamau is a sympathetic depiction of the social problems of the Andean peasantry shot exclusively in Aymara, ...
19. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Director | Macunaíma
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade was born on May 25, 1932 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Macunaima (1969), Guerra Conjugal (1974) and The Brazilwood Man (1982). He was married to Cristina Aché, Sarah de Castro Barbosa and Ana Maria Galano. He died on September 10, 1988 ...
20. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writer | El Topo
Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, 1929. In 1939 he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1953 he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a short film, La ...
21. Andrea Tonacci
Director | Blablablá
Andrea Tonacci was born in 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and producer, known for Blablablá (1968), Serras da desordem (2006) and Bang Bang (1971). He died on December 16, 2016 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
22. Perry Henzell
Director | The Harder They Come
Perry Henzell was born on March 7, 1936 in Port Maria, St. Mary, Jamaica. He was a director and writer, known for The Harder They Come (1972), No Place Like Home (2006) and Camera Three (1955). He was married to Sally Densham. He died on November 30, 2006 in Treasure Beach, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.
23. Arnaldo Jabor
Writer | Toda Nudez Será Castigada
Arnaldo Jabor was born on December 12, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a writer and director, known for All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973), Tudo Bem (1978) and I Love You (1981). He was married to Suzana Villas Boas. He died on February 15, 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
24. Raymundo Gleyzer
Director | México, la revolución congelada
Raymundo Gleyzer's parents were Jews who were involved with theater, but after they separated the boy got work as a cameraman to support himself and his mother, who he stayed with.Which led to a short involvement at the La Plata film school.Gleyzer soon realized he wanted to get right out into the ...
25. Patricio Guzmán
Director | Nostalgia de la luz
Patricio Guzmán was born on August 11, 1941 in Santiago, Chile. He is a director and writer, known for Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975) and The Southern Cross (1991).
26. Helvio Soto
Director | Erase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo...
Helvio Soto was born on February 21, 1930 in Santiago, Chile. He was a director and writer, known for Erase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo... (1967), El ABC del amor (1967) and Mundo mágico (1967). He died on November 29, 2001 in Santiago, Chile.
27. Jorge Bodanzky
Cinematographer | Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica
Jorge Bodanzky was born in 1942 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica (1975), Jakobine (1978) and O Terceiro Milênio (1982).
28. Orlando Senna
Writer | Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica
Orlando Senna was born in 1940 in Afrânio Peixoto, Bahia, Brazil. He is a writer and director, known for Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica (1975), Diamante bruto (1978) and Longe do Paraíso (2020). He is married to Conceição Senna.
29. Sara Gómez
Director | De cierta manera
Sara Gómez was born in 1943 in Cuba. She was a director and writer, known for One Way or Another (1977), En la otra isla (1968) and Iré a Santiago (1964). She was married to Germinal Hernández and Héctor Veitia. She died in 1974.
30. Júlio Bressane
Director | Educação Sentimental
Júlio Bressane was born on February 13, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a director and writer, known for Sentimental Education (2013), Tabu (1982) and A Love Movie (2003).
31. Claudio Caldini
Director | Avenida de Mayo
Claudio Caldini was born in the capital city of Argentina and has been making super 8 experimental films since 1970. In 1971 he began his studies at the Centro Experimental del Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía (INCAA) and attended film seminars with Alberto Fischerman and Werner Nekes between ...
32. Hector Babenco
Director | Carandiru
Hector Babenco was born on February 7, 1946 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Carandiru (2003), Pixote (1980) and Foolish Heart (1998). He was married to Bárbara Paz, Xuxa Lopes and Raquel Arnaud. He died on July 13, 2016 in São Paulo, São Paulo, ...
33. Carlos Diegues
Director | Xica da Silva
Carlos Diegues was born on May 19, 1940 in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. He is a producer and director, known for Xica (1976), O Maior Amor do Mundo (2006) and Better Days Ahead (1989). He has been married to Renata Maria de Almeida Magalhães since 1982. They have one child. He was previously married to ...
34. Leon Hirszman
Director | Eles Não Usam Black-Tie
One of the most important Brazilian directors of all time, Leon Hirszman is best remembered for the realistic manner of dealing with social and political themes in his works, from documentaries to feature films. His career started with a segment filmed for Cinco vezes Favela (1962) and The Deceased...
35. Marta Rodríguez
Director | Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro
Marta Rodríguez was born on December 1, 1933 in Bogotá, Colombia. She is a director and writer, known for Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro (1982), Campesinos (1975) and Chircales (1972).
36. Raúl Ruiz
Director | La Telenovela Errante
Chilean director Raúl, or Raoul, Ruiz (1941-2011) was one of the most exciting and innovative filmmakers to emerge from 1960s World Cinema, providing more intellectual fun and artistic experimentation, shot for shot, than any filmmaker since Jean-Luc Godard. A guerrilla who uncompromisingly ...
37. Paul Leduc
Director | Frida, naturaleza viva
Paul Leduc was born on March 11, 1942 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a director and writer, known for Frida (1983), Cobrador: In God We Trust (2006) and Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972). He was married to Bertha Navarro. He died on October 21, 2020 in Mexico.
38. Francisco Norden
Director | Cóndores no entierran todos los días
Son of an Austrian father and a Colombian mother, Francisco Norden was born in Belgium. He studied architecture at the National University in Bogotá. He finished architecture in Paris at L'Ecole National des Beaux Arts, and then in London at the Polytechnic School of Architecture. In 1955 he ...
39. Suzana Amaral
Director | A Hora da Estrela
Suzana Amaral was born on March 28, 1932 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was a director and writer, known for Hour of the Star (1985), Uma Vida em Segredo (2001) and Hotel Atlântico (2009). She died on June 25, 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
40. Luis Puenzo
Director | La historia oficial
Luis Puenzo was born on February 19, 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and producer, known for The Official Story (1985), The Plague (1992) and Broken Silence (2002).
41. Pim de la Parra
Writer | Paul Chevrolet en de ultieme hallucinatie
Pim de la Parra was born on January 4, 1940 in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana [now Suriname]. He is a writer and director, known for Paul Chevrolet en de ultieme hallucinatie (1985), Lost in Amsterdam (1989) and Obsessions (1969).
42. Fernando E. Solanas
Producer | El exilio de Gardel: Tangos
Fernando E. Solanas was born on February 16, 1936 in Olivos, Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a producer and director, known for Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985), The Journey (1992) and The South (1988). He was married to Angela Correa. He died on November 6, 2020 in ...
43. Martin Donovan
Writer | Apartment Zero
Martin Donovan was born on January 21, 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and producer, known for Apartment Zero (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992) and The Legs of Infamy.
44. Euzhan Palcy
Writer | Siméon
Euzhan Palcy was born in Saint-Joseph, Martinique, France. Euzhan is a writer and director, known for Siméon (1992), Sugar Cane Alley (1983) and A Dry White Season (1989).
45. Luis Mandoki
Director | Voces inocentes
Luis Mandoki was born on August 17, 1954 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for Innocent Voices (2004), Angel Eyes (2001) and Trapped (2002).
46. Alfonso Arau
Actor | Three Amigos!
Alfonso Arau has had a long and fruitful career both in front of and behind the camera and is one of the most prominent Latino film-makers in Hollywood. He was a drama disciple of Seki Sano--a Japanese teacher, classmate of Lee Strasberg with Konstantin Stanislavski in Russia--and traveled the ...
47. Leon Ichaso
Director | El Super
Leon Ichaso was born on August 3, 1948 in Havana, Cuba. He was a director and writer, known for El Super (1979), Piñero (2001) and Bitter Sugar (1996). He was married to Karen Willinger and Amanda Barber . He died on May 21, 2023 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
48. Arturo Ripstein
Director | Principio y fin
Arturo Ripstein began his career as assistant director (unbilled) of Luis Buñuel in Ángel exterminador, El (1962). His father, Alfredo Ripstein, Jr. produced his first film, a western written by Gabriel García Márquez titled Tiempo de morir (1965). Ripstein filmography is very praised in Mexico and...
49. Walter Salles
Director | Central do Brasil
Walter Salles was born on April 12, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a director and producer, known for Central Station (1998), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and Terra Estrangeira (1995). He is married to Maria Klabin. They have one child.
50. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
51. Fabián Bielinsky
Writer | Nueve reinas
He graduated from ENERC (Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica), the most prestigious film school in Argentina, including Lucrecia Martel among its alumni and Anahí Berneri among its lecturers. He worked in several films as Assistant Director or co-writer, until his ...
52. Guillermo Arriaga
Writer | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Guillermo Arriaga was born on March 13, 1958 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and producer, known for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), 21 Grams (2003) and Amores Perros (2000).
53. Lucrecia Martel
Director | La mujer sin cabeza
Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina,Lucrecia Martel settled down in Buenos Aires where she attended the ENERC (National Film School). She started by directing a few shorts among which Historias Breves I: Rey muerto (1995), which garnered several awards in the international film festival...
54. Gaspar Noé
Director | Enter the Void
Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter who lives in France. He is the son of Luis Felipe Noé, an Argentinian artist. He directed I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, Carne, Lux Æterna, Sodomites and Vortex. His films are known for having a sensory overload ...
55. Fernando Meirelles
Director | The Constant Gardener
Fernando Meirelles was born in a middle class family in São Paulo City, Brazil.
He studied architecture at the university of São Paulo. At the same time he developed an interest in filmmaking. With a group of friends he started producing experimental videos and video art. They won a huge number of ...
56. Kátia Lund
Director | Cidade de Deus
Kátia Lund was born in 1966 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She is a director and writer, known for City of God (2002), News from a Personal War (1999) and Anaconda (1997).
57. Miguel Arteta
Director | Beatriz at Dinner
Miguel Arteta was born in 1965 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a director and producer, known for Beatriz at Dinner (2017), Succession (2018) and Enlightened (2011). He is married to Justine Arteta.
58. Carlos Carrera
Director | De la infancia
With only three feature films, Carlos Carrera is considered one of the best young directors of the new Mexican cinema. He began as an animator at 12 years old and wrote, produced and directed a number of animated-shorts before filming his first live-action movie, a docummentary short titled ...
59. Juan Pablo Rebella
Writer | Whisky
Juan Pablo Rebella was born on January 1, 1974 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a writer and director, known for Whisky (2004), 25 Watts (2001) and Víctor y los elegidos (1996). He died on July 5, 2006 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
60. Pablo Stoll
Writer | Whisky
Born in Montevideo in 1974.
He studied social communication in the Catholic university of Uruguay where he started directing shorts movies. There he also met Juan Pablo Rebella, his partner as a writer and director in all his movies.
After finishing their degree, he started working in commercials and...
61. Francisco Vargas
Director | El violín
Francisco Vargas is known for The Violin (2005), Tierra caliente... Se mueren los que la mueven (2004) and Casa Caracol (2017).
62. Guillermo del Toro
Writer | El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...
63. Carlos Saldanha
Writer | Rio
Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian director of animated films. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Rio (2011), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005).
Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He left his hometown in 1991 to ...
64. Daniela Thomas
Director | Terra Estrangeira
Daniela Thomas is a multimedia artist. She directs and writes films, creates opera and theater sets, writes and directs plays, designs and curates exhibitions. She was born and is based in Brazil, but her work has been seen, exhibited and played around the world. It all started in the early 80s at ...
65. José Padilha
Producer | Tropa de Elite
He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the 2014 remake of RoboCop. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Elite Squad in 2008. He is also the producer and director of the ...
66. Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Director | PVC-1
Known as one of Colombia's most prominent and original auteurs, Greek-Colombian film director and screenwriter Spiros Stathoulopoulos gained international recognition with his debut PVC-1 (2007). The uncut cult film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and ...
67. Esteban Sapir
Director | La antena
Esteban Sapir was born on June 6, 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a cinematographer and director, known for The Aerial (2007), Picado fino (1996) and Life According to Muriel (1997).
68. Marco Bechis
Writer | La terra degli uomini rossi - Birdwatchers
The son of a Chilean woman of Swiss-French origins and an Italian father, he grew up in Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires. At the age of twenty he was expelled from Argentina for political reasons: he landed in Milan and there he lived throughout the 1980s, while also spending lots of time in New York, ...
A Chilean-Italian director.
69. Rodrigo García
Writer | Nine Lives
Rodrigo García was born on August 24, 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a producer and writer, known for Nine Lives (2005), Mother and Child (2009) and In Treatment (2008).
A Colombian who grew up and started his career in Mexico.
70. Juan José Campanella
Writer | El secreto de sus ojos
Juan José Campanella was born on July 19, 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), The Man of Your Dreams (2011) and The Weasel's Tale (2019).
71. Claudia Llosa
Director | La teta asustada
Claudia Llosa was born on November 15, 1976 in Lima, Peru. She is a director and writer, known for The Milk of Sorrow (2009), Madeinusa (2006) and Loxoro (2012).
72. Santiago Mitre
Writer | Argentina, 1985
Santiago Mitre was born on December 4, 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for Argentina, 1985 (2022), Paulina (2015) and The Student (2011).
73. Pablo Giorgelli
Director | Las acacias
Pablo Giorgelli was born in 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Las Acacias (2011), Invisible (2017) and La Encomienda (2021).
74. Gustavo Taretto
Writer | Medianeras
Gustavo Taretto was born in 1965 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for Sidewalls (2011), Side Walls (2005) and Hoy no estoy (2007).
75. Carlos Reygadas
Producer | Stellet Licht
Carlos Reygadas was born on October 10, 1971 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a producer and director, known for Silent Light (2007), Japan (2002) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012). He is married to Natalia López.
76. Michel Franco
Producer | Nuevo orden
Michel Franco was born on August 28, 1979 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a producer and writer, known for New Order (2020), Chronic (2015) and After Lucia (2012).
77. William Vega
Director | La sirga
William Vega is known for The Towrope (2012), Sal (2018) and Epifanía (2016).
78. Sebastián Lelio
Director | Una mujer fantástica
Born in 1974, Sebastián Lelio is one of the leading figures (along with Pablo Larraín, Andrés Wood and a few others) of the post-dictatorship Chilean cinema. After graduating from the "Escuela de Cine de Chile" in Santiago, Lelio started by making shorts (he made five from 1995 to 2003, as well as ...
79. Damián Szifron
Editor | Relatos salvajes
Damián Szifron was born on July 9, 1975 in Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a producer and editor, known for Wild Tales (2014), To Catch a Killer (2023) and Los simuladores (2002).
80. Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Director | The Salt of the Earth
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado is known for The Salt of the Earth (2014), Paris la métisse (2005) and In the Hands of the Gods (2007).
81. Christian Duurvoort
Christian Duurvoort is known for Blindness (2008), Pacarrete (2019) and Trash (2014).
82. Pablo Trapero
Producer | El Clan
Pablo Trapero was born in San justo, Argentina in 1971. In 1999 he directed his first feature, Mundo Grua, which won the Critics Prize at Venice. In 2002, he opened his production company, Matanza Cine, that produces films for fellow filmmakers, as well as his own. His second feature, El Bonaerense...
83. Pablo Agüero
Director | Eva no duerme
Pablo Agüero was born in 1977 in Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Eva Doesn't Sleep (2015), Primera nieve (2006) and 77 Doronship (2009).
84. Anna Muylaert
Writer | Que Horas Ela Volta?
Ana Luiza Machado da Silva Muylaert (born 21 April 1964), known professionally as Anna Muylaert, is a Brazilian film and television director, producer and screenwriter. Anna studied filmmaking at the School of Communications and Arts at University of São Paulo (USP) from 1980 to 1984. She became a ...
85. Pablo Larraín
Producer | No
Pablo Larraín was born in Santiago, Chile. He is a director, writer and producer, known for Spencer (2021), Jackie (2016), El Club (2015), NO (2012), among others. Together with his brother Juan de Dios Larraín, they founded Fabula in 2004, one of the most prolific production companies in Latin ...
86. Sebastián Borensztein
Writer | Un cuento chino
Sebastián Borensztein was born on April 22, 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for Chinese Take-Away (2011), Heroic Losers (2019) and Collateral Man (1997).
87. Gastón Duprat
Director | El ciudadano ilustre
Gastón Duprat is a director, screenwriter and film producer. He started his career in video art, experimental cinema and television. He has made a dozen films, with which he obtained more than thirty international awards, among which stand out The Man Next Door (2009), The Distinguished Citizen (...
88. Fede Alvarez
Writer | Don't Breathe
Fede Alvarez was born on February 9, 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a writer and producer, known for Don't Breathe (2016), Evil Dead (2013) and The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018).
89. Raoul Peck
Director | I Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a director and writer, known for I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Lumumba (2000) and Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (1991).
90. Mariano Cohn
Director | El ciudadano ilustre
Mariano Cohn is a director, screenwriter and film producer. He started his career in video art, experimental cinema and television. He has made a dozen films, with which he obtained more than thirty international awards, among which stand out The Man Next Door (2009), The Distinguished Citizen (...
91. Andy Muschietti
Director | Mama
Andy Muschietti was born on August 26, 1973 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is a producer and director, known for Mama (2013), It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019).
92. Alfonso Cuarón
Producer | Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...
93. Ciro Guerra
Director | El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra was born on February 6, 1981 in Río de Oro, Cesar, Colombia. He is a director and writer, known for Embrace of the Serpent (2015), Birds of Passage (2018) and Los viajes del viento (2009). He is married to Cristina Gallego.
94. Cristina Gallego
Producer | El abrazo de la serpiente
Cristina Gallego is known for Embrace of the Serpent (2015), Birds of Passage (2018) and Memoria (2021). She is married to Ciro Guerra.
95. Dominga Sotomayor
Producer | Tarde Para Morir Joven
Dominga Sotomayor was born in 1986 in Chile. She is a producer and director, known for Too Late to Die Young (2018), Thursday Till Sunday (2012) and Correspondence (2020).
96. Mariano Llinás
Writer | Argentina, 1985
Mariano Llinás was born in 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and producer, known for Argentina, 1985 (2022), Extraordinary Stories (2008) and La Flor (2018).
97. Fernanda Valadez
Producer | Sin señas particulares
Fernanda Valadez was born on August 22, 1981 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is a producer and director, known for Identifying Features (2020), Sujo (2024) and 400 Maletas (2014).
98. Ariel Winograd
Director | El robo del siglo
Ariel Winograd was born on August 23, 1977 in Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for The Heist of the Century (2020), ¿Y cómo es él? (2020) and Inside Man (2006).
99. Tatiana Huezo
Director | El eco
Tatiana Huezo was born on January 9, 1972 in San Salvador, El Salvador. She is a director and cinematographer, known for The Echo (2023), Prayers for the Stolen (2021) and El lugar más pequeño (2011).
100. Rodrigo Moreno
Writer | Los delincuentes
Rodrigo Moreno is part of a young generation of Argentinian filmmakers seeking to develop innovative and original forms of storytelling. Hence, his first mid-length feature, part of the omnibus feature MALA EPOCA (1998), was awarded for its original conception for the young filmmaker's vision of ...
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