Ximena Pereira Oyarzun
Chilean/Venezuelan filmmaker and educator with experience in fiction short films, documentaries, and TV documentaries.
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She graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico with a specialization in screenwriting and from the School of Social Communication at the Central University of Venezuela.
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With her fiction short film Blanco Antifaz, she participated in the competition at the Sundance Film Festival and the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal. With Espacio Moneda, she won the Best Documentary Short Film award at the Mecal Festival in Santiago.
Her most recent documentary, La Diosa Quebrada, had its world premiere at the Málaga Film Festival and its North American premiere at Hot Docs Toronto. It won Best Editing at the 20th Venezuelan Film Festival in 2024, Best Production and Best National Work at the Paracinéfagos Festival in Venezuela, and the SIGNIS Award at FIDBA in Argentina. It also received special mentions at the Cumbe San Agustín Festival and the Rengo Festival in Chile.
For the past three years, she has been working on the autobiographical documentary A Garden of Two Lands, which is currently in the development stage.


Ximena is based in Chile, where she has worked as a professor and as the General Producer of the Arcos Film and Audiovisual School. She maintains a strong connection with Venezuela, her creative source, and the country where she grew up and developed the first part of her career.