Maite Alberdi made historical past when she grew to become the primary Chilean lady to be nominated for an Oscar because of her 2021 documentary The Mole Agent. She repeated the excellence earlier this yr when her newest doc, The Everlasting Reminiscence, competed for an Academy Award in a stacked class that in the end went to 20 Days in Mariupol.
It was the newest distinction in an extended checklist for Alberdi, who beforehand directed critically acclaimed function docs like 2014’s La As soon as and 2016’s The Grown-Ups. However even with all of that success, Alberdi says folks nonetheless ask her stunning questions on her résumé. “I simply acquired a query, ‘When are you going to make a movie?’ And it’s like, I make movies,” Alberdi instructed The Hollywood Reporter not too long ago throughout a sit-down interview at Xcaret in Riviera Maya, Mexico, forward of the Platino Awards. The belief is that documentaries aren’t “actual movies,” in line with these ill-informed commenters. “I’ve already made 5 movies, and I’ll proceed making movies.”
Alberdi has lengthy been impressed by actual life as a result of it offers a wealth of fabric. “Actuality is so highly effective, and it’s so stuffed with tales and experiences that I actually don’t want to write down one thing as a result of the whole lot is already written,” continued Alberdi forward of the Platino Awards ceremony at which The Everlasting Reminiscence received a greatest documentary trophy.
That mentioned, she is shifting into uncharted territory along with her subsequent undertaking by prepping her narrative function debut — an adaptation of Alia Trabucco Zerán’s e-book Las Homicidas. The 2019 tome dissects the murders dedicated by 4 Chilean girls and the way society responded to the crimes and their perpetrators. As for her strategy to this new terrain, Alberdi appeared stoked by the possibility to steer the manufacturing in a method that she’s not finished in her earlier documentaries.
“You management the whole lot. You write the script, the actors do what you ask them to do and the issues could be resolved by cash,” she defined. “All the pieces is so managed.”