Roberto Salinas Salinas

Roberto Salinas Vergara holds a degree in Documentary Film and has taken part in important works. He edited award-winning short films such as “Vishitiri” (2018) and “Estrellas del Desierto” (2022). The latter has screened at more than 150 festivals around the world, notably the Tribeca Film Festival (USA), and won awards at Sanfic (Chile), the Havana Film Festival (Cuba) and the New York Latino Film Festival (USA); it won Best Editing at the Visioni Corte International Short Film Festival (Italy) and at the Festival Internazionale Inventa un Film (Italy), and was longlisted for the 2023 Oscars.

He is the director and editor of the documentary short “Eva Mamani: Sembrando palabras olvidadas” (FICVIÑA, Chile 2020) and of “Génesis” (short film in post-production), selected in the Work in Progress category at FECICH 2024 (Chile).

His first feature as director, “La primera dosis”, produced by Volcánica Films, won Best Director at Sanfic 2024.