DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR
Dominga Sotomayor studied Audiovisual Directing at Universidad Católica de Chile, and 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 in more than a hundred festivals. In 2013 she codirected "The Island", that also won the Tiger. In 2015, she premiered her mid-length "Mar" at Berlinale Forum, and the collective film "Here in Lisbon" produced by Indielisboa. In 2009, she co-founded Cinestación, a leading production company based in Santiago where she produces auteur filmmaking in Latin-America. She also co-founded CCC, Centro de Cine y Creación, a cultural centre and arthouse cinema scheduled to open in Santiago de Chile in 2019.

Director's statement
"TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG is a film about growing up in a period of massive changes, and for me it has to do with the nostalgia and the demystification of a period. It’s a coming-of-age story, of both the young characters and a society– Chile, in a country that was aching after the dictatorship. I wanted to explore the uneasy relationship between generations and classes: to capture the wisdom of children and the foolishness of adults, the strange melancholy of growing up. With this film I’m exploring an open and free form, close to the nature of this community near the mountains, away from borders and definitions".