Nicolás López (Chilean director)

Nicolás López
Nicolás López in Los Ángeles
Born	Nicolás Javier López Fernández August 1983 Santiago, Chile  Chile
Residence	Santiago
Occupation	Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Film editor
Years active	Since 1996
Spouse(s)	Amparo Hernández since 2008
Website	www.sobras.com

Nicolás Javier López Fernández (born 1983) is a Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He is known for the films "Promedio Rojo" and the trilogy "Qué pena tu vida", "Qué pena tu boda" and "Qué pena tu familia".

López was born in Santiago, Chile. Since a very young age, Nicolas became interested in filmmaking. After reading Robert Rodriguez Rebel Without a Crew, and watching the movie Clerks, he took his family's video camera and began experimenting with it.

By the age of 12, Nicolás López was already writing a column for El Mercurio, one of the oldest and most prestigious and conservative right-wing Chilean newspapers. His column, "Memorias de un Pingüino" (“Memories of a penguin”), ran from 1997 to 1999 and described the life of a student, commonly known as a "penguin" in Chile because of the typical black and white uniform. The comments he made in the column led to him being expelled from school. At the age of 14, after his expulsion, he began a new column called "López" with a more mature style.

At the age of 15, he made his debut at the Valdivia film festival with the short film "Pajero" (“wanker”), that tells the story of a teenager constantly interrupted during masturbation. The next year he filmed "Superhéroes" (“superheroes”), the story of a teenager who tries to convince people that he is a superhero, and in 2000 he filmed "Florofilia", a love story between a man and a plant. He became partner and co-founder of sobras.com, a website about cinema, television, books, comics and video games that focused on young audiences. He then founded the first independent film festival in Santiago, the "Sobras Independent Film Festival", as well as Sobras.com Producciones, a film production company.

As associate producer, Lopez took charge of the marketing of the Jorge Olguin horror movie "Angel negro" (“black angel”) in 2000, and the adult animation "Cesante" (“unemployed”), which he also co-wrote. He also ran the marketing for other Chilean films such as "Sangre eterna" (Eternal Blood, by Jorge Olguin), "Taxi para tres" (A Cab for Three, by Orlando Lubbert), "Paraíso B" and "Made in Chile".