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Matías Bize

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Matias Bize
Matias Bize at Moscow
BornAugust 1979
Santiago,Chile
Alma materEscuela de Cine de Chile(es)
Occupation(s)Film director,Screenwriter,Film producer,Film editor
Years activeSince 2002

Matías Bize(bornSantiago,Chile,9 August 1979) is aChileanfilm director, producer and screenwriter. He has won important independent film awards including the Espiga de Oro forIn Bedat the 2005Valladolid International Film Festival[1]in Spain, and aGoya Awardin 2011 forThe Life of Fish.[2]

Biography[3]

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Bize studied at San Juan Evangelista[4]School inSantiago, Chileand then at the Chilean Film School.[5]

He made his first short films as a student:Carla and MaxandLast Night(Spanish: La Noche Anterior) both in 1999 andThe People are Waiting(Spanish: La Gente Está Esperando) in 2000. In 2002, at the age of 23 and not yet a graduate, he directed his first feature-length film,Saturday(Spanish: Sábado), areal timefilm. His short filmLast Nightwas a prequel toSaturday,starring the same actors (Blanca Lewin and Víctor Montero) in the same roles.

Bize visit La Moneda after winning hisGoya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film

Saturday,atragicomedyabout a wedding cancelled at the last minute, had its worldwide premiere at the 2003International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelbergwhere it won four awards, including the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize for Best Film “for its freshness, innovation and energy”, the Best Actress award and the Critics’ Prize.[6]It also won the Jury's Prize for Best First Film at the 8th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival inAustin, Texas.[7]

Two years later, Bize directed the feature-lengthIn Bed[8](Spanish: En la Cama), a Chilean-German production that premiered at theLocarnoInternational Film FestivalinSwitzerland.The film won the Espiga de Oro at theValladolid International Film Festivalin Spain and Bize became the youngest director ever to win this award. In total,In Bedwon more than 35 international awards and went on commercial release in many countries across the world. Meanwhile, Bize continued making fictional shorts as well as music videos and documentaries.

Bize's third feature film, the Spanish productionAbout Crying[9](Spanish: Lo Bueno de Llorar), tells the story of a breakup. It premiered at theLocarno International Film Festivaland went on release inSpain.

WithThe Life of Fish,Bize reconfirmed his place as a director of international stature. In 2011, the Spanish Film Academy named the film Best Foreign Spanish Language Film at the prestigious Goya Awards and in the same year, Bize won Best Director at theLos Angeles Latino International Film Festival(LALIFF).

In 2012, Bize was selected along with five other directors to take part in the Berlin International Film Festival's new residency programme to make his fifth feature film,The Memory of Water(Spanish: La Memoria del Agua). The script of this Chilean-German production was written in partnership with Julio Rojas.[10][11]

Jackie Di Crystal and Matias Bize atLALIFF

Filmography

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Director

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  • Carla and Max(Spanish: Carla y Max), short, 1999
  • Last Night(Spanish: La Noche Anterior), short, 1999
  • The People are Waiting(Spanish: La Gente Está Esperando), short, 2000
  • Saturday(Spanish: Sábado), feature-length, 2002
  • In Bed(En La Cama), feature-length, 2005
  • Summer Game(Spanish: Juego de Verano), feature-length jointly directed with Fernando *Aljaro, Daniela González and Andrea Wasaff, 2005
  • Calling(Spanish: Llamando), short, 2005
  • Confession(Spanish: Confesión), short, 2006
  • About Crying(Spanish: Lo Bueno de Llorar), feature-length, 2006
  • The Mirror of Her Eyes(Spanish: El Espejo de sus Ojos), short, 2007
  • The Life of Fish(Spanish: La Vida de los Peces), feature-length, 2010
  • The Memory of Water(Spanish: La memoria del agua), feature-length, 2015[12]
  • The Punishment(Spanish: El castigo), feature-length, 2022

Writer

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  • Calling(Spanish: Llamando), 2005
  • About Crying(Spanish: Lo Bueno de Llorar), feature-length, 2006
  • The Life of Fish(Spanish: La Vida de los Peces), feature-length, 2010

Producer

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  • Saturday(Spanish: Sábado), 2002
  • About Crying(Spanish: Lo Bueno de Llorar), feature-length, 2006

See also

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References

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  1. ^Matías Bize on CineChileCinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno, retrieved December 21, 2014
  2. ^La vida de los peces gana el Goya a la mejor película hispanoamericanaArchived2014-04-07 at theWayback MachineLa Tercera February 14, 2011, retrieved on December 22, 2014
  3. ^Biography Official webretrieved December 21, 2014
  4. ^San Juan Evangelista School Websje.cl 2014, retrieved on December 21, 2014
  5. ^Escuela de Cineretrieved December 21, 2014
  6. ^"...the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize was awarded to young Chilean director Matias Bize's one-take film Saturday (Sabado)"screendaily, Media Business Insight Limited, December 1, 2003 By Martin Blaney
  7. ^Matías Bize on CineChileCinechile, Enciclopedia del Cine Chileno, retrieved December 21, 2014
  8. ^En la Camalafuga.cl Carolina Urrutia N. retrieved December 21, 2014
  9. ^About Crying review2014 Variety Media, by Alissa Simon retrieved on December 21, 2014
  10. ^Matías Bize es invitado al programa de residencia de la Berlinale con su nueva película,El Mercurio,11.06.2011; retrieved 21.12.2014
  11. ^Matias Bize Web - Biographymatiasbize retrieved December 21, 2014
  12. ^"'The Memory of Water' ('La memoria del agua'): Venice Review ".September 2015.
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