María Elena Wood (Producer)

Spider

Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.

Release Date2019-08-15

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count46

No

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Release Date2012-08-09

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count454

Dignity

The Germanic cult 'Colonia Dignidad' abused children, tortured and killed prisoners in its secret compound. Now, with Chilean dictator Pinochet gone, Leo Ramírez, a young federal prosecutor, must bring its leader Paul Schaefer to justice.

Release Date2019-12-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count28

The Good Life

In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.

Release Date2008-08-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Consultant

Vote Count16

Ramona

In the late 1960s, two young sisters, Ramona and Helga, emigrate from the countryside to the city. Upon arriving in Santiago, Chile, they start a clandestine business selling wine in a camp that is being built in the outskirts of the city.

Release Date2017-10-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count12

Vote Count1

Madwomen

Documentary about the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize, Gabriela Mistral, and her relationship with the American Doris Dana. Gabriela meets Doris when she thinks she cannot overcome the biggest tragedy of her life: the suicide of her only son. Doris, realizing that her partner will be gone soon, records the conversations with her in their Long Island house. These recordings will be the access to the affective universe of a woman who lives in permanent tension with her inner demons and whose sensitivity and ambition make her the protagonist of her time.

Release Date2011-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Mary & Mike

Mary and Mike are a couple of elite agents from the Chilean secret police, DINA. Their job is to eliminate opposition leaders who from abroad articulate resistance to the fierce military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In her public life, Mary is a writer and she relates with the most outstanding members of Santiago's cultural life. Mike, is a talented "gringo" for electronics. They live with their children Cony and Simon in the suburbs of Santiago where they tend to give crowded parties. But as they celebrate, in the backyard of their home they torture, murder and experiment with weapons of mass destruction.

Release Date2018-03-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count15

Los Jaivas: Todos juntos

Los Jaivas are the most important rock band in the history of Chile. 55 years of music and friendship. Memories emerge note by note, song after song, tour after tour. An intimate portrait of their musical life where for the first time they share their archives that have been accumulated for years on the shelves of a small apartment in Santiago.

Release Date2020-11-07

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

Soccer Stories

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.

Release Date1997-06-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Consultant

Vote Count11

Operación Chile: Top Secret

Release Date2023-09-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

The General's Daughter

The film tells the story of the life of Michelle Bachelet and her surprising journey along the road to the presidency of Chile.

Release Date2006-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Amereida, sólo las huellas descubren el mar

A poetic journey from Tierra del Fuego to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, made by nine Latin American and European poets, artists and architects in 1965. Recostructing the events that made this unique experience of art and life possible, as well its consequences, like the foundation of the vanguardist school of architecture of Valparaíso University and the building of an “Open City” in the sands of the Chilean Pacific Ocean.

Release Date2017-11-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer