Marialy Rivas: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
OAbot (talk | contribs)
Bots
418,853 edits
m Open access bot: doi added to citation with #oabot.
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
 
(13 intermediate revisions by 10 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{short description|Chilean screenwriter and film director}}
[[File:Marialy Rivas.jpg|200px|thumb|Rivas in 2012.]]
[[File:Marialy Rivas.jpg|200px|thumb|Rivas in 2012.]]
'''Marialy Rivas''' is a [[Chile]]an [[screenwriter]] and [[film director]], known for her 2012 film ''[[Young and Wild (2012 film)|Young and Wild]]'', winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award in [[Sundance Film Festival]]. She grew up in Chile during a violent dictatorship under [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.pride.com/box-office/2012/11/30/director-marialy-rivas-her-provocative-film-young-wild-out-nyc-and-vod-today|title=Director Marialy Rivas on Her Provocative Film 'Young & Wild' Out in NYC and On VOD Today|date=2012-11-30|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en}}</ref> Rivas is openly lesbian and has commented publicly that, "In Chile, it is of good taste not to say that you are gay, even if everybody knows it. People are usually infuriated by your sexuality if you are open. Nobody wants to know, so nobody wants to tell."<ref name=":0" />
'''Marialy Rivas''' is a [[Chile]]an [[screenwriter]] and [[film director]], known for her 2012 film ''[[Young and Wild (2012 film)|Young and Wild]]'', winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award in [[Sundance Film Festival]]. She grew up in Chile during a violent dictatorship under [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.pride.com/box-office/2012/11/30/director-marialy-rivas-her-provocative-film-young-wild-out-nyc-and-vod-today|title=Director Marialy Rivas on Her Provocative Film 'Young & Wild' Out in NYC and On VOD Today|date=2012-11-30|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en}}</ref> Rivas is openly lesbian and has commented publicly that, "In Chile, it is of good taste not to say that you are gay, even if everybody knows it. People are usually infuriated by your sexuality if you are open. Nobody wants to know, so nobody wants to tell."<ref name=":0" />


== Career ==
== Career ==
She studied in the School of Cinema of Chile, but withdrew in the third year. In 1996 she directed the [[short film]] ''Desde siempre'', winner of the [[Santiago]] Short Film Festival, and was reviewed by the magazine ''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinechile.cl/persona-6166|title=Marialy Rivas}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.emol.com/tendenciasymujer/Noticias/2012/02/02/22264/Marialy-Rivas-La-ganadora-en-Sundance-trata-de-romper-con-el-machismo-en-el-cine-chileno.aspx|title=Marialy Rivas: La ganadora en Sundance trata de romper con el machismo en el cine chileno|work=[[EMOL]]}}</ref> Rivas says that she knew she wanted to be a director since she was seven. During her childhood Rivas was not allowed to watch television so she went to the cinema three times a week and cites this as an influence in her decision to become a director.<ref name=":3"/>
She studied in the School of Cinema of Chile, but withdrew in the third year. In 1996 she directed the [[short film]] ''Desde siempre'', winner of the [[Santiago]] Short Film Festival, and was reviewed by the magazine ''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinechile.cl/persona-6166|title=Marialy Rivas}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.emol.com/tendenciasymujer/Noticias/2012/02/02/22264/Marialy-Rivas-La-ganadora-en-Sundance-trata-de-romper-con-el-machismo-en-el-cine-chileno.aspx|title=Marialy Rivas: La ganadora en Sundance trata de romper con el machismo en el cine chileno|work=[[EMOL]]}}</ref> Rivas says that she knew she wanted to be a director since she was seven. During her childhood, Rivas was not allowed to watch television so she went to the cinema three times a week and cites this as an influence in her decision to become a director.<ref name=":3"/>


In 2000 she directed the short film ''Smog'', along with [[Sebastián Lelio]].
In 2000, she directed the short film ''Smog'', along with [[Sebastián Lelio]].


In 2010 she directed ''Blokes'', selected in the [[Short Film Palme d'Or]] competition of the [[Cannes Film Festival]]. It also got awards in the [[Lleida Latin-American Film Festival]], and other 50 film festivals. His first feature film ''[[Young and Wild (2012 film)|Young and Wild]]'', was premièred on 21 January 2012 in the [[2012 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance Film Festival]], where it won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Drama.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2012-sundance-film-festival-awards|title=2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards|website=www.sundance.org|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.biobiochile.cl/2012/01/29/violeta-se-fue-a-los-cielos-gana-gran-premio-internacional-del-jurado-en-festival-de-sundance.shtml|title="Violeta se fue a los cielos" gana Gran Premio Internacional del Jurado en Festival de Sundance}}</ref> In May 2012 she obtained the Sundance's ''Directors and Screenwriters Lab'' award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://diario.latercera.com/2012/05/10/01/contenido/cultura-entretencion/30-108094-9-directora-de-joven-y-alocada-logra-apoyo-de-sundance-para-nuevo-filme.shtml|title=Directora de Joven y Alocada logra apoyo de Sundance para nuevo filme}}</ref>
In 2010, she directed ''Blokes'', selected in the [[Short Film Palme d'Or]] competition of the [[Cannes Film Festival]]. It also got awards in the [[Lleida Latin-American Film Festival]], and other 50 film festivals. His first feature film ''[[Young and Wild (2012 film)|Young and Wild]]'', was premièred on 21 January 2012 in the [[2012 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance Film Festival]], where it won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Drama.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2012-sundance-film-festival-awards|title=2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards|website=www.sundance.org|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.biobiochile.cl/2012/01/29/violeta-se-fue-a-los-cielos-gana-gran-premio-internacional-del-jurado-en-festival-de-sundance.shtml|title="Violeta se fue a los cielos" gana Gran Premio Internacional del Jurado en Festival de Sundance|date=29 January 2012 }}</ref> In May 2012 she obtained the Sundance's ''Directors and Screenwriters Lab'' award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://diario.latercera.com/2012/05/10/01/contenido/cultura-entretencion/30-108094-9-directora-de-joven-y-alocada-logra-apoyo-de-sundance-para-nuevo-filme.shtml|title=Directora de Joven y Alocada logra apoyo de Sundance para nuevo filme|access-date=2016-05-23|archive-date=2012-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514012002/http://diario.latercera.com/2012/05/10/01/contenido/cultura-entretencion/30-108094-9-directora-de-joven-y-alocada-logra-apoyo-de-sundance-para-nuevo-filme.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>


In 2017 Rivas released her second feature film, ''Princesita'' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won Film of the Festival at [[Raindance Film Festival]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/princesita-wins-four-awards-at-raindance-film-festival/5133314.article|title='Princesita' wins four awards at Raindance Film Festival|work=Screen|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en}}</ref>
In 2017, Rivas released her second feature film, ''Princesita'' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won Film of the Festival at [[Raindance Film Festival]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/princesita-wins-four-awards-at-raindance-film-festival/5133314.article|title='Princesita' wins four awards at Raindance Film Festival|work=Screen|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en}}</ref>


== Filmography   ==
== Filmography   ==
Rivas first short film was ''Desde Siempre'' (1996) a documentary film about homosexuality in Chile during the 90s. At the time in Chile, the gay experience was unknown and censored from society and the film ended up resonating with people more than expected.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Bello|first=María José|last2=Rivas|first2=Marialy|date=2010-12-01|title=Marialy Rivas pionera del cine de temáticas homosexuales en Chile|url=https://journals.openedition.org/cinelatino/1371|journal=Cinémas d'Amérique Latine|language=es|issue=18|pages=96–98|doi=10.4000/cinelatino.1371|issn=1267-4397|doi-access=free}}</ref> Rivas would ask anyone to participate in the interviews and ended up using friends or friends of friends. Rivas says on the process of making the film that she would write down the interviews and pick the  angle that interested her, generating one minute texts based on their words but emphasising the angle she was interested in for each character.<ref name=":3" /> During filming she would give these texts to the interviewers and have them act in these fictional situation.
Rivas’ first short film was ''Desde Siempre'' (1996) a documentary film about homosexuality in Chile during the 90s. At the time in Chile, the gay experience was unknown and censored from society and the film ended up resonating with people more than expected.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last1=Bello|first1=María José|last2=Rivas|first2=Marialy|date=2010-12-01|title=Marialy Rivas pionera del cine de temáticas homosexuales en Chile|url=https://journals.openedition.org/cinelatino/1371|journal=Cinémas d'Amérique Latine|language=es|issue=18|pages=96–98|doi=10.4000/cinelatino.1371|issn=1267-4397|doi-access=free}}</ref> Rivas would ask anyone to participate in the interviews and ended up using friends or friends of friends. Rivas says on the process of making the film that she would write down the interviews and pick the angle that interested her, generating one-minute texts based on their words but emphasizing the angle she was interested in for each character.<ref name=":3" /> During filming, she would give these texts to the interviewers and have them act in these fictional situations.


''Smog'' (2000)
''Smog'' (2000)
Line 18: Line 19:
''Blokes'' (2010)
''Blokes'' (2010)


''Young & Wild'' (2012) was Rivas’ first feature film, she was inspired to make the film from a blog that she stumbled upon. The blog was a mix of blunt sexual tales and tender evangelical stories of the writer’s youth and her church. Rivas reached out to the writer of these blog and did some interviews with her, eventually going back to [[Pedro Peirano]] to help structure the film’s story. Later going on to writing the script, showing it to Gutiérrez, the writer of the blog, to do all the dialogue and voiceover.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2012/02/futures-young-wild-filmmaker-marialy-rivas-talks-her-sexy-sundance-award-winning-debut-49290/|title=FUTURES: 'Young & Wild' Filmmaker Marialy Rivas Talks Her Sexy, Sundance Award-Winning Debut|last=Smith|first=Nigel M.|date=2012-02-02|work=IndieWire|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en-US}}</ref>
''Young & Wild'' (2012) was Rivas’ first feature film, she was inspired to make the film from a blog that she stumbled upon. The blog was a mix of blunt sexual tales and tender evangelical stories of the writer’s youth and her church. Rivas reached out to the writer of these blog and did some interviews with her, eventually going back to [[Pedro Peirano]] to help structure the film’s story. Later, she went on to write the script, showing it to Gutiérrez, the writer of the blog, to do all the dialogue and voiceover.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2012/02/futures-young-wild-filmmaker-marialy-rivas-talks-her-sexy-sundance-award-winning-debut-49290/|title=FUTURES: 'Young & Wild' Filmmaker Marialy Rivas Talks Her Sexy, Sundance Award-Winning Debut|last=Smith|first=Nigel M.|date=2012-02-02|work=IndieWire|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en-US}}</ref>


''Princesita'' (2017) is Rivas second feature film and is about Tamara, a 12 year old in a cult that its leader believer her to be the chosen one. Again like Rivas’s previous work, the inspiration for the story was based on a news article from 2012 about a girl forced into carrying a baby by her grandfather who was part of a cult in Chile.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=http://remezcla.com/features/film/marialy-rivas-princesita-interview-tiff-2017/|title=Marialy Rivas On How Her Sex Cult Drama 'Princesita' Is an Indictment of Toxic Masculinity|work=Remezcla|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en-US}}</ref> In casting the role of the main character, Rivas went to schools and cast kids with the consent of the parents which is how she found Sara Caballero.<ref name=":4" /> Influences for the film’s style and look, Rivas looked to the work of [[Sally Mann]] and [[Bill Henson]]. Saying about Mann’s work “...I used to have her pictures as a teenager pasted on my walls and then these images came back to me because all her work are her shots of her own children in idyllic places and they are all naked. Of course, there were no weird intentions or views, but the images still have something disturbing, there is something strange about this beauty."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.latinolife.co.uk/articles/truth-or-illusion|title=Truth or Illusion? {{!}} Latino Life|website=www.latinolife.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref>
''Princesita'' (2017) is Rivas’ second feature film and is about Tamara, a 12-year-old in a cult that its leader believes her to be the chosen one. Again, like Rivas’ previous work, the inspiration for the story was based on a news article from 2012 about a girl forced into carrying a baby by her grandfather who was part of a cult in Chile.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=http://remezcla.com/features/film/marialy-rivas-princesita-interview-tiff-2017/|title=Marialy Rivas On How Her Sex Cult Drama 'Princesita' Is an Indictment of Toxic Masculinity|work=Remezcla|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en-US}}</ref> In casting the role of the main character, Rivas went to schools and cast kids with the consent of the parents which is how she found Sara Caballero.<ref name=":4" /> Influences for the film’s style and look, Rivas looked to the work of [[Sally Mann]] and [[Bill Henson]]. Saying about Mann’s work “...I used to have her pictures as a teenager pasted on my walls and then these images came back to me because all her work are her shots of her own children in idyllic places and they are all naked. Of course, there were no weird intentions or views, but the images still have something disturbing, there is something strange about this beauty."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.latinolife.co.uk/articles/truth-or-illusion|title=Truth or Illusion? {{!}} Latino Life|website=www.latinolife.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref>


== Awards and Nominations ==
== Awards and nominations ==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|+
Line 76: Line 77:
[[Category:Chilean women film directors]]
[[Category:Chilean women film directors]]
[[Category:Lesbian artists]]
[[Category:Lesbian artists]]
[[Category:LGBT directors]]
[[Category:LGBT film directors]]
[[Category:LGBT screenwriters]]
[[Category:Chilean lesbian writers]]
[[Category:LGBT writers from Chile]]
[[Category:Sundance Film Festival award winners]]
[[Category:Sundance Film Festival award winners]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Spanish-language LGBT writers]]
[[Category:Chilean LGBT screenwriters]]
[[Category:Lesbian screenwriters]]

Latest revision as of 13:37, 3 March 2023

Rivas in 2012.

Marialy Rivas is a Chilean screenwriter and film director, known for her 2012 film Young and Wild, winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award in Sundance Film Festival. She grew up in Chile during a violent dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.[1] Rivas is openly lesbian and has commented publicly that, "In Chile, it is of good taste not to say that you are gay, even if everybody knows it. People are usually infuriated by your sexuality if you are open. Nobody wants to know, so nobody wants to tell."[1]

Career[edit]

She studied in the School of Cinema of Chile, but withdrew in the third year. In 1996 she directed the short film Desde siempre, winner of the Santiago Short Film Festival, and was reviewed by the magazine Cahiers du cinéma.[2][3] Rivas says that she knew she wanted to be a director since she was seven. During her childhood, Rivas was not allowed to watch television so she went to the cinema three times a week and cites this as an influence in her decision to become a director.[4]

In 2000, she directed the short film Smog, along with Sebastián Lelio.

In 2010, she directed Blokes, selected in the Short Film Palme d'Or competition of the Cannes Film Festival. It also got awards in the Lleida Latin-American Film Festival, and other 50 film festivals. His first feature film Young and Wild, was premièred on 21 January 2012 in the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Drama.[5][6] In May 2012 she obtained the Sundance's Directors and Screenwriters Lab award.[7]

In 2017, Rivas released her second feature film, Princesita which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won Film of the Festival at Raindance Film Festival.[8]

Filmography  [edit]

Rivas’ first short film was Desde Siempre (1996) a documentary film about homosexuality in Chile during the 90s. At the time in Chile, the gay experience was unknown and censored from society and the film ended up resonating with people more than expected.[4] Rivas would ask anyone to participate in the interviews and ended up using friends or friends of friends. Rivas says on the process of making the film that she would write down the interviews and pick the angle that interested her, generating one-minute texts based on their words but emphasizing the angle she was interested in for each character.[4] During filming, she would give these texts to the interviewers and have them act in these fictional situations.

Smog (2000)

Blokes (2010)

Young & Wild (2012) was Rivas’ first feature film, she was inspired to make the film from a blog that she stumbled upon. The blog was a mix of blunt sexual tales and tender evangelical stories of the writer’s youth and her church. Rivas reached out to the writer of these blog and did some interviews with her, eventually going back to Pedro Peirano to help structure the film’s story. Later, she went on to write the script, showing it to Gutiérrez, the writer of the blog, to do all the dialogue and voiceover.[9]

Princesita (2017) is Rivas’ second feature film and is about Tamara, a 12-year-old in a cult that its leader believes her to be the chosen one. Again, like Rivas’ previous work, the inspiration for the story was based on a news article from 2012 about a girl forced into carrying a baby by her grandfather who was part of a cult in Chile.[10] In casting the role of the main character, Rivas went to schools and cast kids with the consent of the parents which is how she found Sara Caballero.[10] Influences for the film’s style and look, Rivas looked to the work of Sally Mann and Bill Henson. Saying about Mann’s work “...I used to have her pictures as a teenager pasted on my walls and then these images came back to me because all her work are her shots of her own children in idyllic places and they are all naked. Of course, there were no weird intentions or views, but the images still have something disturbing, there is something strange about this beauty."[11]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Movie Year Nomination(s) Award(s) Festival(s)
Desde Siempre 1996 Winner Santiago Short Film Festival
Blockes 2010 Palme d'Or[12] Cannes Film Festival
Young & Wild 2012 The World Cinema Screenwriting Award[5] Sundance
Princesita 2017 Film of the Festival, Best International Feature, Best Cinematography and Best Performance[8] Raindance Film Festival

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Director Marialy Rivas on Her Provocative Film 'Young & Wild' Out in NYC and On VOD Today". 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  2. ^ "Marialy Rivas".
  3. ^ "Marialy Rivas: La ganadora en Sundance trata de romper con el machismo en el cine chileno". EMOL.
  4. ^ a b c Bello, María José; Rivas, Marialy (2010-12-01). "Marialy Rivas pionera del cine de temáticas homosexuales en Chile". Cinémas d'Amérique Latine (in Spanish) (18): 96–98. doi:10.4000/cinelatino.1371. ISSN 1267-4397.
  5. ^ a b "2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  6. ^ ""Violeta se fue a los cielos" gana Gran Premio Internacional del Jurado en Festival de Sundance". 29 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Directora de Joven y Alocada logra apoyo de Sundance para nuevo filme". Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
  8. ^ a b "'Princesita' wins four awards at Raindance Film Festival". Screen. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  9. ^ Smith, Nigel M. (2012-02-02). "FUTURES: 'Young & Wild' Filmmaker Marialy Rivas Talks Her Sexy, Sundance Award-Winning Debut". IndieWire. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  10. ^ a b "Marialy Rivas On How Her Sex Cult Drama 'Princesita' Is an Indictment of Toxic Masculinity". Remezcla. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  11. ^ "Truth or Illusion? | Latino Life". www.latinolife.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  12. ^ S.A.P., El Mercurio (2010-05-23). "Cortometraje chileno "Blokes" no pudo llevarse la Palma de Oro | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-11-16.

External links[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marialy_Rivas&oldid=1142625415"