Sebastián Silva

Sebastián Silva

Sebastián Silva Irarrázabal (born 9 April 1979; Santiago) is a Chilean director, actor, screenwriter, painter and musician. The second of seven brothers, Sebastián Silva was born in Santiago, Chile on 9 April 1979. After graduating from the Catholic Colegio del Verbo Divino school in Santiago, he spent a year studying filmmaking at the Escuela de Cine de Chile (“Film School of Chile” in Spanish) before leaving to study animation in Montreal, Canada. Here, he mounted the first gallery exhibition of his illustrations and started the band CHC, which went on to record three albums. Silva's second illustration show brought him in contact with Hollywood but a “frustrating period” in Los Angeles, spent pitching to Steven Spielberg and others, brought no tangible results. Leaving Hollywood, Silva started two more bands, Yaia and Los Mono, the latter of which was signed by British record label Sonic360. He exhibited his art in New York City while writing the script for what would become his first feature, La Vida Me Mata (“Life Kills Me” in Spanish; written with Pedro Peirano). Back in Chile, Silva recorded a solo album, Iwannawin & Friends and directed his debut feature, Life Kills Me. Released in 2007 by Chilean production company Fabula, Life Kills Me went on to win Best Film at the Chilean Pedro Sienna Awards in 2008. In February 2008, setting aside a script based on his trip to Hollywood, Silva wrote (with Pedro Peirano) and directed his next film: The Maid. The film, released in 2009, told the story of a maid trying to keep her job after having served a family for 23 years. It has won multiple awards, including the Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Dramatic at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Golden Globes Awards and the 2010 NAACP Image Awards. Film critic David Parkinson called the film "an exceptional study of the emotional investment that domestics make in the families they serve." Silva partnered with Pedro Peirano again to write his next film, Old Cats, which premiered in 2010 at the Valdivia International Film Festival in Chile and at the New York Film Festival in the United States. He then made his TV debut in 2012 when he wrote, directed and produced the HBO short-form TV comedy show The Boring Life of Jacqueline. The success of The Maid took Silva to Sundance again in 2013 to premiere two new films, Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy, both starring indie actor Michael Cera. Silva won the Sundance Directing Award: World Cinema - Dramatic for Crystal Fairy and the LA Times described Magic Magic as “an exploration of insanity, selfishness and emotional brutality.” Silva told the LA Times that Cera's character in Magic Magic is "one of my favorite characters I've created in a movie." His latest film Rotting in the Sun premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and screened at Outfest.

  • Title: Sebastián Silva
  • Popularity: 1.238
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1979-04-09
  • Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
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  • Also Known As: Sebastián Silva Irarrázabal, Себастьян Сильва, Себастьян Сильва Ираррасабаль
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Sebastián Silva Movies

  • 2010
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    Lorimer

    Lorimer

    4 2010 HD

    A Brooklyn guy is torn between his cynical friends and his earnest new boyfriend. Directed and written by Michael Lannan. This became the basis of...

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  • 2013
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    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    6 2013 HD

    Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends...

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  • 2016
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    Dolfun

    Dolfun

    5.7 2016 HD

    What begins as a love story becomes an existential crisis when filmmaker Sebastian Silva flies to Miami to fulfill his lifelong dream of swimming...

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  • 2015
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    Nasty Baby

    Nasty Baby

    5.2 2015 HD

    A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a...

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  • 2023
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    Rotting in the Sun

    Rotting in the Sun

    6.7 2023 HD

    A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him...

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  • 2008
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    31 Minutos, la película

    31 Minutos, la película

    7 2008 HD

    The rag-tag crew of world famous TV news show 31 Minutos goes into the sea to a mystery island to rescue their beloved producer Juanin Juan Harry.

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  • 2007
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    Life Kills Me

    Life Kills Me

    5.9 2007 HD

    Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on...

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  • 2009
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    The Maid

    The Maid

    6.7 2009 HD

    Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to...

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  • 2009
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    The Maid

    The Maid

    6.7 2009 HD

    Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to...

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  • 2010
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    Old Cats

    Old Cats

    4.7 2010 HD

    Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her...

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  • 2013
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    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    6 2013 HD

    Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends...

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  • 2013
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    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    6 2013 HD

    Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends...

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  • 2013
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    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    6 2013 HD

    Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends...

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  • 2013
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    Magic Magic

    Magic Magic

    5.123 2013 HD

    In remote Chile, a vacationing young woman begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.

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  • 2016
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    Neruda

    Neruda

    6.3 2016 HD

    It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the...

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  • 2007
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    Life Kills Me

    Life Kills Me

    5.9 2007 HD

    Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on...

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  • 2007
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    Life Kills Me

    Life Kills Me

    5.9 2007 HD

    Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on...

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  • 2021
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    Indomable

    Indomable

    1 2021 HD

    Lara is a theater and film actress who attends the casting of the movie “Indomitable" to play the lead role of mafiosa. Another person without...

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  • 2021
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    Indomable

    Indomable

    1 2021 HD

    Lara is a theater and film actress who attends the casting of the movie “Indomitable" to play the lead role of mafiosa. Another person without...

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  • 2018
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    Tyrel

    Tyrel

    5.5 2018 HD

    Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there,...

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  • 2016
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    Dolfun

    Dolfun

    5.7 2016 HD

    What begins as a love story becomes an existential crisis when filmmaker Sebastian Silva flies to Miami to fulfill his lifelong dream of swimming...

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  • 2010
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    Old Cats

    Old Cats

    4.7 2010 HD

    Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her...

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  • 2013
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    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

    6 2013 HD

    Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends...

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  • 2013
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    The Butler

    The Butler

    7.3 2013 HD

    A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat...

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  • 2000
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    Sal Disfruta: Año Nuevo

    Sal Disfruta: Año Nuevo

    1 2000 HD

    fruit salt television commercial

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  • 2013
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    Magic Magic

    Magic Magic

    5.123 2013 HD

    In remote Chile, a vacationing young woman begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.

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  • 2015
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    Nasty Baby

    Nasty Baby

    5.2 2015 HD

    A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a...

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  • 2015
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    Nasty Baby

    Nasty Baby

    5.2 2015 HD

    A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a...

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    Nasty Baby

    Nasty Baby

    5.2 2015 HD

    A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a...

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  • 2016
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    Madly

    Madly

    4.8 2016 HD

    Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US,...

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  • 2023
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    Rotting in the Sun

    Rotting in the Sun

    6.7 2023 HD

    A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him...

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  • 2023
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    Rotting in the Sun

    Rotting in the Sun

    6.7 2023 HD

    A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him...

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  • 2016
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    Dolfun

    Dolfun

    5.7 2016 HD

    What begins as a love story becomes an existential crisis when filmmaker Sebastian Silva flies to Miami to fulfill his lifelong dream of swimming...

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  • 2018
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    Tyrel

    Tyrel

    5.5 2018 HD

    Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there,...

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  • 2018
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    Tyrel

    Tyrel

    5.5 2018 HD

    Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there,...

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  • 1987
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    Born in East L.A.

    Born in East L.A.

    5.8 1987 HD

    Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As...

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  • 2016
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    Madly

    Madly

    4.8 2016 HD

    Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US,...

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  • 2016
    imgMovies

    Madly

    Madly

    4.8 2016 HD

    Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US,...

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  • 2018
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    Fistful of Dirt

    Fistful of Dirt

    5.5 2018 HD

    Yei, an energetic ten-year-old boy, spends his days setting traps for crabs and foraging for gasoline, while trying to keep his desperately ill...

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  • 2018
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    Fistful of Dirt

    Fistful of Dirt

    5.5 2018 HD

    Yei, an energetic ten-year-old boy, spends his days setting traps for crabs and foraging for gasoline, while trying to keep his desperately ill...

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  • 2010
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    Old Cats

    Old Cats

    4.7 2010 HD

    Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her...

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  • 2010
    imgMovies

    Old Cats

    Old Cats

    4.7 2010 HD

    Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her...

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  • 2007
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    Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

    Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

    1 2007 HD

    This 96-minute documentary, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of his...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E10

    7.5 1970 HD

    A wayward NYC actress searches for meaningful relationships -- both in the real world and on the internet.

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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 HD

    A group of friends turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    An exploration of the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E10

    7.5 1970 HD

    A wayward NYC actress searches for meaningful relationships -- both in the real world and on the internet.

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E10

    7.5 1970 HD

    A wayward NYC actress searches for meaningful relationships -- both in the real world and on the internet.

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E10

    7.5 1970 HD

    A wayward NYC actress searches for meaningful relationships -- both in the real world and on the internet.

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E12

    8 1970 HD

    A group of teenagers come together to form a peculiar hip-hop band called "Los Pulentos"

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