Dominga Sotomayor studied Audiovisual Directing at Universidad Católica de Chile and earned a Masters in Directing at ESCAC in Barcelona. She developed her first feature
Thursday Till Sunday at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence. The film won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam in 2012 and was screened at more than a hundred festivals. In 2013, she co-directed
The Island, which also won the Tiger. In 2015, she premiered her mid-length
Mar at the Berlinale Forum, and the omnibus feature
Here in Lisbon, produced by IndieLisboa. She has worked with video and photography for various art exhibitions, like Little Sun (Olafur Eliasson, 2012) at the Tate Modern in London. In 2009, Sotomayor co-founded Cinestación, a leading production company based in Santiago where she produces auteur filmmaking in Latin America. Recently, she has worked on Los fuertes by Omar Zúñiga (in post-production);
Murder Me, Monster by Alejandro Fadel, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2018; and
Raging Helmets by Neto Villalobos. She also co-founded CCC, Centro de Ciney Creación, a cultural centre and arthouse cinema scheduled to open in Santiago in 2019.