Maite Alberdi

Biografía: Maite Alberdi is a Chilean audiovisual director, producer, screenwriter and film critic. She is internationally recognized for her documentaries La once (2014) and Los niños (2016), for which she won the award for best female documentary director at the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), the most important festival of its kind in the world. She graduated as an audiovisual director from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and also has a degree in aesthetics and social communication from the same university. She has worked as an editor, sound designer, executive producer and director of photography in various national films and documentaries. In June 2018 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the United States. At the Sundance Film Festival, her fourth feature film, The Mole Agent (2020), was released.