Pablo Larrain

Pablo

Larrain Matte studied audiovisual communication at the University for the Arts,

Sciences, and Communication in Santiago.

He is a

co-founder of Fábula, a company in which he develops his cinematic and

advertising projects.

He directed

his first feature film in 2005; it was officially released in March 2006 and

won international acclaim after winning several prizes at international film

festivals, especially those of Cartagena and Málaga. His following films

consolidated his international success.

In 2011 he

began to direct a television series, Profugos.

His fourth feature

film is No, in which Gael García Bernal plays the role of the owner of an

advertising company who runs a campaign to vote "No" in the 1988

plebiscite that was designed to keep Augusto Pinochet in power. No was screened

in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where it

won the Art Cinema Award. The film was also nominated for Best Foreign Language

Film at the 85th Academy Awards.

In 2013 he

was named as a member of the jury at the 70th Venice International Film

Festival.