Katherina Harder Sacre

Katherina Harder Sacre (Iquique, 1988) is a Chilean Film and TV Director, a graduate of the Universidad de Chile with a Master's in Film Directing from Bande à Part in Barcelona. Recipient of the Arts, Cultures and Heritage Award of the Tarapacá Region. Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Iquique International Film Festival – FICIQQ, now in its 15th year.

Director of the short films “Otoño” (2010), selected at Mar del Plata; “Memorias del Viento” (2011), winner of Best Film School Short at the 18th Valdivia International Film Festival and selected at more than 35 international festivals including Guadalajara, Documenta Madrid, Huesca and Camerimage, among others; “Escamas” (2020), shot in Spain, winner of several awards such as Best International Short at the AMOR Film Festival (Chile), Best International Short and Audience Award at the Cine las Americas Festival, Austin, Texas (USA), Audience Award and Best in Show at Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival (USA), Best International Short at Giornate de Cinema Queer (Italy), and nominated for the SGAE Nova Autoria Awards (Spain), among others; and the award-winning “Estrellas del desierto” (2022), selected at the Tribeca Film Festival and at more than 160 festivals in 36 countries, winning more than 66 international awards such as Best International Short at the New York Latino Film Festival, the RTVE Award for Best Ibero-American Short at the Almería International Film Festival (Spain), the Special Prize and Prize of Honor at the Japan Prize (Japan), Best Short at the Iberoamerican Film Festival of Miami (USA), the UNESCO Chair Award at Festival Visualízame (Spain), the Save the Earth! Award from Japan’s Ministry of the Environment at the Short Shorts festival, Best National Short at SANFIC, and the Special Jury Prize at the Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana (Cuba), among others, becoming the most awarded short film in the history of Iquique. The film qualified for the 2023 Academy Awards in the Live Action Short Film category.

At just 24 she directed her first television series, “4to medio”, broadcast by TVN and produced by PAROX, which ran for two seasons.

She took the Screenwriting and Directing Actors workshops based on the Sanford Meisner technique at EICTV, Cuba, and took part in the BAFICI Talent Campus (2013) and the Locarno Industry Academy (2020).

She currently develops projects in Chile and Spain, where she founded and directs the Barcelona International Film Festival for Older People. In Chile she is writing the screenplay for her first feature, “Vírgenes de Yeso”, and directing a fiction series produced by Parox for NTV. She also co-founded and runs the production company Volcánica Films in Iquique, whose goal is to strengthen film production in the Tarapacá region and in Chile’s Norte Grande.