Birth name
     Maite Alberdi Soto
Date of birth
     29 March 1983, Santiago, Chile

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Maite Alberdi _{(29 March 1983, Santiago, Chile)}

Maite Alberdi Soto (born 29 March 1983, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean film producer, director, documentarian, screenwriter, and film critic.

Her film The Mole Agent (2020) was an Academy Awards nominee for Best Documentary and a contender for Best International Feature. The film was also a nominee at the Goya Awards for Best Iberoamerican Film. She is the founder of Micromundo Producciones.

She is the Audiovisual Director of the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile, and teaches documentary directing at several universities. Her works as a film critic have been published on the site La Fuga, a film studies magazine founded in 2005 in Santiago, Chile, with the intent to "open a field of debate and academic reflection, producing and disseminating unpublished material of interest for the cinematographic cultural field." She co-authored a book, Teorías del cine documental en Chile: 1957-1973.

She was invited as a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in June 2018, under the documentary branch.[6] She was also acting producer for Los Reyes, following the lives of two stray dogs as "they wander around the oldest skatepark (Los Reyes) in the Chilean capital of Santiago."
Education

Maite Alberdi has a degree in Aesthetics and a degree in Social Communication from the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile.

Filmography

Since 2004, Alberdi has participated in taking on various roles in the making of each of these films. Films with their original Spanish titles are followed by their English translation, or English-provided title in parentheses.

    The Eternal Memory (2023)
    The Mole Agent (2020)
    Los Reyes (The Kings) (2018)
    Los niños (2016)
    Yo no soy de aquí (I'm Not From Here; short film) (2016)
    Vida sexual de las plantas (The Sexual Life of Plants) (2015)
    Propaganda (2014)
    La once (Tea Time) (2014)
    Verano (Summer) (2011)
    El salvavidas (The Lifeguard) (2011)
    Las peluqueras (The Hairdressers; short film) (2008)
    Los trapecistas (The Trapeze Artists; short film, 2005)
    Carrete Down (Reel Down; short film) (2004)

Director - Selected filmography

1. The Eternal Memory | La memoria infinita (2023)