Sebastián Silva was born in Santiago, Chile in 1979.
His first movie, “La Vida Me Mata”, premiered in 2007, won Best Movie at the Pedro Sienna Awards in 2008.
In February 2008, Silva directed and wrote (with Pedro Peirano) “The Maid”. The film, premiered in 2009, won multiple awards, including the Grand Jury Prize – World Cinema Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, and was nominated for Best Foreign Movie in the 2010 Golden Globes and in the 2010 NAACP Image Awards.
Silva associated himself one more time with Pedro Peirano to write “Gatos Viejos”, premiered in 2010 at the Valdivia International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
The success of “The Maid” took Silva to Sundance one more time in 2013, where he premiered his next two films, “Magic Magic” and “Crystal Fairy”, both starring American indie actor Michael Cera. Silva won the Sundance Directing Award: World Cinema – Dramatic for “Crystal Fairy”.
In 2015, Silva directed, wrote and starred in “Nasty Baby”, alongside “Saturday Night Live” former cast member Kristen Wiig and TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe. The film premiered in 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as being selected for the Panorama Selection at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for Best LGBT Movie.
