Juan Ignacio Sabatini
Directing
Known For

Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people.
12 dĂas que estremecieron Chile

The disappearance of dozens of teenage girls shakes Alto Hospicio community in northern Chile. The official version speaks of runaways from broken homes and an underworld of traffic, but the case hides a horror perhaps even worse: A murderer that remains unpunished unable to stop his impulses.
Inspector Rojas: In Cold Blood

For three years, 500 Spaniards brutally attacked the indigenous peoples native in the south of Chile. This story is told from the perspective of the colonizing army as they are almost completely eliminated in their attempt to conquer a foreign land.
Besieged

Chilean TV miniseries. Each episode relates the history of one of the principal figures Chilean figures of the 19th century: Bernardo O'Higgins, JosĂ© Miguel Carrera, Manuel RodrĂguez, Diego Portales, JosĂ© Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Prat.
Heroes

The odyssey of Rodrigo Jarpa, a remarkable and charismatic sexologist who, together with Nathalie Nicloux, a comedian and actress, travels around the world discovering new ways to live and practice sexuality. Each episode is an X-ray of some city and goes deep into a predetermined topic, seen from the local culture, customs and local perspective.
The Culture of Sex

The activites of two lawyers and their work in different positions of the New Chilean Procedural Reform.
JPT: Justicia para todos

Rosa and Margarita shared the same husband. With his death, both widows and their daughters, will have to manage the only inheritance left: A Hotel in Santiago. The four women will have to learn how to accept each other and, incidentally, run a business with all kind of hilarious guests.
Hotel para dos

“The Future Institute" led by Dr. Mishima is a school for gifted children, in which they seek to create the minds of the XXII century through genetic experimentation. Mishima’s students are at risk because a rival laboratory of genetic research needs their genomes for the development of new drugs and creating new children.
Gen Mishima
Stories centered on relationships from a sexual point of view.
Karma

Based on a true story. The life and death of Daniel Zamudio, a young man who was brutally beaten in Parque San Borja of Santiago as part of a direct homophobic assault.
Zamudio

Chile, 1973. The military coup will force Jorge Silva, an Air Force captain, to face the unfolding horror. Inside a military base, he must choose between becoming part of the repression or helping those fighting to stay alive.
The Red Hangar

Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel RodrĂguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Kill Pinochet

A woman persecuted for witchcraft, a young woman possessed by the devil, two women living a secret love, a tormented man who starts a massacre. Four stories that intersect in an electrifying period thriller.
Cursed Poems

A Chilean talent show in the mold of "American Idol," "Rojo" became a huge hit the moment it hit the airwaves. This comic series puts a fictional spin on all the backstage drama: the backstabbing, the ruthless competition and the passionate abandon. Further blurring the line between fantasy and reality, several of the show's big stars -- including Monserrat Bustamante, Mario Guerrero and Yamna Lobos -- appear as pseudo versions of themselves.
Rojo: La pelĂcula

Rudi and Silvia, with their children MartĂn, Federico and Silvina, escape from the city to spend a few days in their country house. Rudi gets into arguments with the neighborhood landlord. Children wander around the area. MartĂn likes fire. Fede is scared. One day, the abandoned house in the background suffers an unexpected fire and a dead person appears: a homeless man suffocated by the smoke. The children did something. Something horrible. Now, we will have to see a way to return to the desired calm.
The Cottage

Panzeri was an honest man, a critical journalist, a freethinker. He faced power and died alone and forgotten. Kohan is an outsider obsessed with doing justice, getting Panzeri out of ostracism and bringing him back to this world. Without Panzeri, football has only a few days to live.
Buscando a Panzeri

Documentary film about soccer and the passion it unleashes in a country qualifying for a world cup. During eight years of following the Chilean national team, the features and nuances that make up our society are reflected in both defeat and victory, trying to answer what mystery this sport has that makes it the most popular in the world.
RED EYES
In 1989 Brazil, during a World Cup qualifier between Chile and Brazil, Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas stages an injury during the match at the MaracanĂŁ Stadium.
Simulacro

Renunciation, search and a constant questioning of his own roots marked the genesis of the artistic personality of Juan Downey (1940-1993), a pioneer in the use of video in the service of art. This film proposes an encounter with his life and work, through the stories of his closest collaborators and the artist himself.