Elliot Morfi Bartolo

Elliot Morfi Bartolo was born in Iquique, Chile, in 1988, the city where he has developed most of his professional career. He is an audiovisual producer, cultural manager and co-founder of the Iquique International Film Festival (FICIQQ). He complemented his self-taught training with film production workshops in Chile, studied Directing Actors at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in Cuba, and graduated as a Social Worker from the Instituto Superior de Artes y Ciencias de la Comunicación IACC. This combination of artistic and social training has given him an integral perspective on audiovisual creation, cultural management and community work.

As a producer, he has produced several works made in northern Chile, including the short film Vishitiri (2018), by Patricio Quinteros; the short film Igor (2021), by Néstor Cantillana, premiered at SANFIC 17; the multi-award-winning Estrellas del desierto (2022), by Katherina Harder, which has won 66 international awards and received the 2022 Pedro Sienna Extemporáneo Award for Best Short Film, granted by Chile’s Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage; and the feature film La primera dosis (2024), by Roberto Salinas, winner of the Best Director Award at SANFIC 20.

As a director, he made the short film Milagrosa pesca (2015) and the fiction feature Ni juntos, ni solos (2020), winner of the Post-production Award in the Work in Progress section of the 38th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana (2016) and of the Post-production Award at the 5th La Serena International Film Festival (FECILS) in 2019.

He is currently finishing post-production and preparing the release of the short film Tamarugal, while also serving as producer of the feature film Vírgenes de yeso, both directed by Katherina Harder and developed in the Tarapacá Region.