He has won numerous film awards.

He was born and raised in Chile and studied theatrical directing at the International School of Image and Gesture in Santiago. In 1999, he moved to Germany, where he began studying editing and editing short fiction and documentary films. Later, he moved to France to work as an editor for the ARTE television channel.

The next step was obtaining a Master’s degree in Documentary Filmmaking at the prestigious National Film and Television School in London. His thesis, “Waiting for Women” (2008), won awards at dozens of film festivals, including IDFA in Amsterdam and Palm Springs. His film “Last Dreams” received the Audience Award at the Dokers Film Festival in 2015.

“The Jumpers” (2016), a film about refugees from Tropical Africa trying to cross the border between Morocco and Spain, won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlinale, the Cinema Eye Honors award, the DMZ Docs Grand Prize in Korea, the Best Documentary Film prize at the Madrid Documentary Film Festival, and many other awards.

Estefan’s new work, “Songs of Repression,” in which the residents of a German colony in Chile come face to face with their dark past, was released in March of this year and has already won the main prize at the prestigious CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.

Estefan’s films were not only well‑received in festival circles — they won several dozen awards and were featured in more than 150 festival screenings worldwide — but they were also broadcast to a wide audience on television in Denmark, the UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Turkey, and Russia.

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