César González Álvarez
Filmmaker. Born 1988, Santiago, Chile. Director and screenwriter of Nado de invierno (Best Chilean Short Film 2018. Bío Bío Cine. Chile • Fiction), Segundo (Chile • Fiction), La cofradía (Chile • Documentary), and La montaña errante (Chile • Fiction), projects that have received various selections and accolades. He works as a director on Cena di notte (Italy • Fiction) and as a co-director on El arte de la ausencia (Canada, Argentina, Chile • Documentary). Notable screenwriting projects include Il mare senza nome (Development project winner of MiC Co-Development Call. Italy, Tunisia • Fiction), El mago & el espejo (Development project winner of the 2023 Audiovisual Fund from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage of the Government of Chile with the highest score in its Original Script and Literary Adaptation line. Chile, Italy • Fiction), and La rueda de chicago (Chile • Fiction).
Creator and screenwriter of the series Dubois (Best Scripted Series Filmarkethub Sitges 2020, Special Mention Pitch Series CinemaChile 2020, Conecta Fiction Award at Sanfic Industria 2021, selected for Iberseries Platino Industria 2023, and winner of the 2022 Audiovisual Fund from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage of the Government of Chile, with the highest score in its Audiovisual Projects Support Fund line).
His studies in Cinema at Instituto Profesional Arcos and History at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano have allowed him to develop, research, and participate in projects with a significant historiographical component in film, television, video games, and graphic narrative. He participated in the Narrative and Script Seminar NGI at Universidad Santo Tomás (2012) and in Documentary Film Workshop at Fidocs (2015). In 2015, he was awarded at the Santiago International Comic Fair FIC SANTIAGO for his graphic narrative project Emisario del sol.
In 2018, he was selected to participate in the European residency Castello Errante: Residenza Internazionale del Cinema 2018 in Rome, Italy, where he took part in various specialized lectures in Film Direction.
Between 2018 and 2022, he served as General Coordinator and Development Manager for Castello Errante: Residenza Internazionale del Cinema (Rome, Italy); a program that connects Europe and Latin America through the Development and Production of audiovisual works by emerging filmmakers from Central and South America and Italy in training contexts. This initiative has been supported by the Ibermedia Program, the Italian Ministry of Culture, and the Lazio Region. In this context, he has also been invited to participate as a lecturer, delivering talks on the development and writing of fiction for Film students from Latin America and Italy. Simultaneously, he is part of the production company Occhi Di Giove based in Rome, Italy, where he focuses on cultural management and the development of fiction and documentary projects.
He is the author and screenwriter of El Emisario (2024), a graphic narrative project in development with art by Paulo Oñate.
He is a founding member of the production company Malagüero Films, focused on the development and production of stories with an emphasis on interdisciplinary work between Chile and Europe. He is also a member of DYGA (Santiago, Chile).