Pablo Larrain
| Pablo Larraín | |
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Pablo Larraín in November 2013
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| Born |
Pablo Larraín Matte August 19, 1976 Santiago, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Spouse(s) | Antonia Zegers |
| Children | Juana Larraín Zegers Pascual Larraín Zegers |
| Parent(s) |
Magdalena Matte Hernán Larraín |
Pablo Larraín Matte (lah-rah-EEN; born 19 August 1976) is a Chilean filmmaker. He has directed five feature films and co-directed one television series.
Pablo Larrain Matte was born on August 19, 1976 in Santiago, Chile, the son of law professor (and later Independent Democrat Union senator) Hernán Larraín, and Sebastián Piñera's former minister of Housing and Urbanism, Magdalena Matte. He studied audiovisual communication at the University for the Arts, Sciences, and Communication in Santiago.
He is a co-founder of Fábula, a company in which he develops his cinematic and advertising projects.
He directed his first feature film in 2005; it was officially released in March 2006 and won international acclaim after winning several prizes at international film festivals, especially those of Cartagena and . His following films consolidated his international success.
In 2011 he began to direct a television series, Profugos.
His fourth feature film is No, in which Gael García Bernal plays the role of the owner of an advertising company who runs a campaign to vote "No" in the 1988 plebiscite that was designed to keep Augusto Pinochet in power. No was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Art Cinema Award. The film was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.
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