Catalina "Yupi" Covarrubias
Directing
Biography
Catalina "Yupi" Covarrubias Cáceres (November 27th, La Serena, Chile) is a filmmaker and Film student at Universidad Mayor (Santiago, Chile). Her approach to the arts began in her teenage years through theater, a discipline in which she founded the school theater club and theater company La Pandilla, where she worked as a screenwriter, director, and actress. That experience shaped her artistic formation and strengthened her interest in creating fictional worlds. Since 2022, she has developed both fiction and documentary projects, working in directing, screenwriting, and production. Her work in production design and art direction has included short and feature films, exploring the visual materialization of narrative universes as a central focus of her cinema.
Known For
A rythmic gymnast in her twenties starts questioning her youth and worth after a new competitor enters her team.
Begonia
An italian man hires a tailor from Concepción to make his wedding suit.
El traje del novio
Four voices intertwine in a testimonial journey through the Santiago subway, confronting what society prefers to keep underground in its stations. A journey of reconstruction — from memory and experience — that explores the invisible trace these events have left on their lives.
Código Sigma
Celeste and Aurora try to save a dog from the claws of their witch-neighbor Orfelia, who wants to eat her.
Agua con Azúcar
Lucía, looking to get ahead with her son, Álvaro, begins to sell his failed sopaipillas to drunken men at a Pool Bar in his area.