Francisca Alegría was born and raised in Chile. She holds an MFA in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University. Alegría’s short film And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Short Film Jury Award. Alegría was a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters and Directors Labs.
In a dystopian future, Ramona, a Guatemalan mother who has lived in the United States for years, must escape before being placed in a concentration camp. In order to save her young son, she will have to make the most difficult decision of her life. Ironically, the only person who can help her is a white American man.
Release Date2021-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The film is an adaptation on the play The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca. The story modernizes the play by setting it on the outskirts of Miami. After the death of her husband, Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigorous, traditional mourning
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.
Release Date2023-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
After disappearing during a dive at sea, Cristián, a Chilean fisherman trapped in his own violence and guilt, returns months later to his village, physically and spiritually changed. Suspected of not being himself and haunted by visions and secrets from the past, he begins a surreal journey towards redemption with Marisol, a woman marked by her own trauma. In this world where the boundaries between the human and the mythical are blurred, both must face their deepest scars to be reborn or lost forever.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The epic tale of a proud and passionate family, secret loves, and bloody revolution. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count8
Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news.
Release Date2016-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
In the middle of a blackout, the night before his father's funeral, Felipe arrives at his mother's house after a nine-year absence. There he waits with his sister, his aunt and the maid, with a dinner made especially for him. Although Felipe only is coming for a short time, his mother and sister will draw him back to the house he once left.
Release Date2010-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
