Ricardo Larraín

Ricardo Larraín was a Chilean film editor and director. His 1991 film "The Frontier" won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to producing and directing several films and documentaries, I have served as executive producer on the TV-series "cinnamon Skin", and as director and editor of the miniseries "Heroes" and produced more than eight hundred commercials for Chilean and foreign markets. In 2001 I oversaw the drama department of the academic TV channel "Corporation of Television of the Catholic University and worked as a teacher at a journalism school. In 2004 I founded the Chilean Director and Screenwriter association and in 2006 I founded the film department in Chile's biggest university. Larraín died in March 2016 from cancer. I was 58.