Matías Bize
Matías Bize (born August 9, 1979 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean screenwriter and film director .
biography
Bize studied at the "Escuela de cine de Chile" with a focus on screenwriting and directing. He became internationally known with his first feature film Sábado - The Wedding Tape . For this "real-time video" he won the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize at the 52nd Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival .
Bize is one of the protagonists of a young movement in Latin American cinema. Because of the bad economic situation of Chilean film production, he realizes his projects with simple means. The plot of his second film En la cama (Eng. In bed) develops with only two actors in a single room. The film won the main prize of the Seminci Film Festival in 2005 .
Bize's third feature film Lo bueno de llorar was first released in 2006, but has not yet appeared in German-speaking countries. The film was awarded at the Valdivia International Film Festival.
The director's fourth and so far last film was La vida de los peces (2010). In Germany it was shown on November 11, 2010 at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival and on December 18, 2010 on television under the title Fremd wie ein Fisch at arte .
Filmography
- 1999: Carla y Max (short film)
- 2000: La gente está esperando (short film)
- 2003: Sábado - The Wedding Tape ( Sábado, una película en tiempo real )
- 2005: Juego de verano (joint work with Fernanda Aljaro, Nane González and Andrea Wassaff)
- 2005: In bed ( En la cama )
- 2005: Llamando (short film)
- 2005: Llamando ficción (short film)
- 2006: Lo bueno de llorar
- 2010: La vida de los peces
- 2015: The Memory of Water
Web links
- Matías Bize in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site of the film en la cama
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bize, Matías |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |