
Sebastián Araya
Directing
Biography
Sebastian Araya Serrano has been working in film and television for the past 20 years. His career began as an actor in Spain but soon took him to settle down in Chile where he writes, produces and directs films and television series. He has developed various audiovisual projects through his AFRO FILM production company.
Known For

Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.
Mea culpa

Erotic comedy series about infidelity in couples and the different situations that lead people to commit it. The episodes use as reasons, among others, serious sexual disagreement, simple use of a favorable moment without thinking about the consequences, habits or deteriorating or unpleasant attitudes, etc. Without ever losing humor and mischief.
Infieles

Different stories about people having more luck than usual...
La vida es una lotería

Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
El día menos pensado

Anthology series based on true crime stories that usually are unsolved mysteries. Intertwining dramatizations and real interviews with the victims and witnesses.
Enigma

Fictionalized stories based on real events about young people starting their sexual lives.
Mi primera vez
Stories that portray cases of witchcraft, moorings, spiritual manifestations, exorcisms, ghosts, haunted houses and other situations that changed the lives of the protagonists. Stories that can happen to anyone.
Santiago paranormal

Stories of a medical team that day by day mix their personal dramas with their work in the emergency room.
Vida por vida
Fictional recreation of the biggest scammers who in the recent years have been in all the news headlines.
Grandes pillos

A teenager fulfills his dream of entering the professional football world.
Príncipes de barrio

The story of two brothers who get involved with a sexy stripper and her boss, the nightclub king of Santiago, as told from three perspectives.
The Newcomers

When enemy members of the two main Chilean soccer teams, Azul and Paloma meet in a fight after a soccer game they fall in love at first sight. They run away through the night in the streets of Santiago, while two groups search for them, when they meet, happens the inevitable.
Azul y Blanco
Cassandra is a teenager who is seeking God so she enters in the youth group of the Parish. There she meets Father Agustin , who unleashes her in confusion, on the border between carnal love and a fatherly relationship. Everything is accentuated when they go to a spiritual retreat to the coast, where the rest of the group members will show their true colors
Bienvenida Casandra

In a violent city where a man succumbs to the loneliness and delirium of his unfulfilled desires. He wishes to belong somewhere. And the only way to achieve this goal is projecting in his own mind another version of himself, a "second man", someone -who will be accepted.
La salamandra

A young married couple going through crisis travel to Spain in search of new opportunities. Their lives are shaken with the unexpected visit of a disturbing girl.
199 recetas para ser feliz

In Santiago, Andrés Barros is a partner at an up-and-coming law firm. He's getting married, and his friends, including his law partner Roberto, arrange a bachelor party where he spends the night with a prostitute, Gloria. She later shows up at his office and the passion continues, against his better judgment. Soon, Andrés is entangled in sex, lies, videotape, and blackmail. His relationship with Rosario, his fiancée, is strained, he neglects his work, and there's a dead body in a bathtub. A pimp, a whore, a doorman, a receptionist: where are the decent people?
Decent People

Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break into the apartments of the wealthy side of the town.
Spider Thieves

A Man and a Woman who get together after several months of absence in an attempt to reconcile their differences. They had once been a couple and share an immensely painful past; a past that became the cause of their separation. But it seems that a tragic ending is the doomed destiny for these characters that seem incapable of achieving happiness
El lenguaje del tiempo

A married professor of music has a normal life until the day he meets an unusual women, 20 years younger than he. He gets involved in a love relation with her. At the beginning everything looks normal, nevertheless after some time with her, he begins questioning his whole life, breaking with the comfortable and conventional existence he used to have.
El lugar encantado

A man wakes up in a house that is not his house. He doesn't remember how he got there. A woman enters via Zoom, and they begin to piece together what the hell is going on. But as the minutes pass, the man discovers that he is nothing more than the pawn in a sinister plan.