José Luis Torres Leiva
Biography
José Luis Torres Leiva (born 1975, Chile) is a film director, editor, and screenwriter. He has made a considerable number of short films and independent videos. The Sky, the Earth and the Rain (2008) was his first feature film. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), it was nominated for a Tiger Award and won the FIPRESCI Award at IFFR in 2008. Summertime has also been supported by the HBF and had its premiere at the Venice film festival in 2011.
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Movies (49)
When Clouds Hide the Shadow
Director (Directing)
2025
A Dark Light
Editor (Editing)
2024
Under the Sky Shelter
Script Supervisor (Directing)
2022
Alicia Dreams of a Lighthouse
Director (Directing)
2021
Against all the evils of the world
Director (Directing)
2021
Winter: Images of Contemporary Chilean Architecture
Director (Directing)
2020
Ni juntos, ni solos
Script Consultant (Writing)
2020
Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes
Director (Directing)
2019
Perros sin cola
Editor (Editing)
2019
The Guru
Editorial Consultant (Editing)
2019
About Things That Happened to Me
Writer (Writing)
2018
Enigma
Script Consultant (Writing)
2018
Absence
Editor (Editing)
2017
Rey
Development Producer (Production)
2017
Nada pertenece a la memoria
Editor (Editing)
2017
Ana's Dream
Writer (Writing)
2017
All the Letters that I Never Sent
Director (Directing)
2017
Los soñadores
Director (Directing)
2016
Como me da la gana II
as Self
2016
The Winds Know That I'm Coming Back Home
Director (Directing)
2016
Adios amigo mío, sin gestos, sin palabras
Editor (Editing)
2015
Land and Shade
Script Consultant (Writing)
2015
Tea Time
Thanks (Crew)
2014
Aurora
Editor (Editing)
2014
See and Listen
Director (Directing)
2014
11 Habitaciones en Antártica
Director (Directing)
2013
The Future
Thanks (Crew)
2013
What Is This Story and How Does It End?
Director (Directing)
2013
Candelaria
Director of Photography (Camera)
2013
Thursday Till Sunday
Other (Editing)
2012
By the Fire
Other (Production)
2012
Copia imperfecta: para Raúl Ruiz
Director (Directing)
2012
Verano
Director (Directing)
2011
The Little White Doves
Director (Directing)
2011
Lucia
Assistant Director (Directing)
2011
Ocaso
Thanks (Crew)
2010
Three Weeks Later
Director (Directing)
2010
Un minuto de silencio
Writer (Writing)
2010
Primer día de invierno
Writer (Writing)
2010
The Sky, the Earth and the Rain
Director (Directing)
2008
Trance
Director (Directing)
2008
The Time that Rests
Director (Directing)
2007
Women Workers Leaving the Factory
Director (Directing)
2005
El mal
Director (Directing)
2004
Los ojos abiertos
Director (Directing)
2004
Empezando de cero
Writer (Writing)
2004
No Place in Anywhere
Producer (Production)
2003
No tengo nada que decir
Director (Directing)
2003
Confesiones de un caballo suicida
Director (Directing)
2002