Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo was born in Santiago do Chile in 1985. After graduating with a B.A. in Social Communication and a B.A. in Aesthetics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he worked as an independent Filmmaker in Santiago, directing some short fiction films and art videos. The Men and the River, his first short film, was premiered at the most important Chilean film festivals and then screened in several others internationally. He now lives in New York, where he attends the Graduate Film Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Away, his first film at the program, was screened at Palm Springs International Film Festival, and also in England and Portugal. –Queer Lisboa