Juan Pablo Sallato

(Santiago, 1978). Plastic artist trained at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He approaches cinema through audiovisual production diplomas at the University of Chile and the Septima Ars School of Cinema and Television of Madrid. Back in Chile, in the middle of 2004 she founded with Juan Ignacio Sabatini "Villano", an audiovisual production company that was born from the need to join the creative forces of a plastic artist and a filmmaker in the same space. In this way, his work develops between the documentary genre and fiction, both in film and for TV. Within his filmography, the feature-length documentaries "Más allá de estos Muros" (2009) directed by Juan Ignacio Sabatini, a film that investigates the complex and fascinating figure of Chilean artist Juan Downey, and "Ojos Rojos" (2010), directed by Juan Ignacio Sabatini, Ismael Larraín and Juan Sallato, stand out. This documentary film explores the relationship between soccer and defeat in Chilean society, and to date is the most watched documentary in the history of Chilean cinema. Regarding his work in television, he has directed the documentary series "La cultura del Sexo" (2015) and "Adictos al cláxon" (2013), projects that seek to show the cultural characteristics of specific social groups, through which the idiosyncrasy of each country where their characters are found is visualized. On the other hand, his work in fiction has been constantly related to projects based on real events. Thus, he has produced the series "La Cacería" (2016) by Juan Ignacio Sabatini, which narrates the series of femicides that occurred in the town of Alto Hospicio in the north of Chile, and the acclaimed mini-series "Zamudio, Perdidos en la noche" (2015) created by Juan Ignacio Sabatini and Juan Sallato, a production that, based on the brutal murder of a young gay man, shows the enormous gaps of inequality from every point of view in the composition of Chilean society. During 2020 he is finishing the non-fiction series "Libre", of which he is the director and producer. At the same time, he is preparing to film his first film "Hangar Rojo" in 2021, and he is also the producer of the fiction film "Matar a Pinochet", a film that narrates the adventures of a group of young people who tried to kill the dictator Augusto Pinochet on a Sunday afternoon in 1986. The film premiered at the 42nd Ibero-American Film Festival in Huelva.