César González Álvarez
Filmmaker. Born in 1988, Santiago, Chile. Director and screenwriter of The Winter Swim (Best Chilean Short Film 2018, Bío Bío Cine, Chile • Fiction), Segundo (Chile • Fiction), The Brotherhood (Chile • Documentary), and The Wandering Mountain (Chile • Fiction), projects that have received various selections and accolades. He works as director on Cena di notte (Italy • Fiction) and as co-director on Art of Absence (Canada, Argentina, Chile • Documentary).
Among his screenplay work are Il mare senza nome (a project in development and winner of the MiC Co-Development Call, Italy, Tunisia • Fiction), The Mage & The Mirror (a project in development and winner of the Audiovisual Fund 2023 – original screenplay and literary adaptation – from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage of the Government of Chile. Chile, Italy • Fiction), and Chicago’s Ferris Wheel (a project in development and winner of the Audiovisual Fund 2025 – original screenplay and literary adaptation – from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage of the Government of Chile. Chile • Fiction).
Creator and screenwriter of the series Dubois (Best Scripted Series FilmarketHub Sitges 2020, Special Mention Pitch Series CinemaChile 2020, Conecta Fiction Award at SANFIC Industria 2021, selected at Iberseries Platino Industria 2023, and winner of the Audiovisual Fund 2022 – strengthening audiovisual projects fund – and the Audiovisual Fund 2025 – original screenplay and literary adaptation – from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage of the Government of Chile).
His studies in Film at Instituto Profesional Arcos and History at Academia de Humanismo Cristiano have allowed him to develop, research, and participate in projects with a strong historiographic component in film, television, video games, and graphic narrative.
After participating in the Narrative and Screenwriting NGI Seminar at Universidad Santo Tomás (2012) and Documentary Film at FIDOCS (2015), he was awarded at the Santiago International Comic Fair for his graphic narrative project Emisario del Sol. In 2018, he was invited to participate in the European residency Castello Errante: Residenza Internazionale del Cinema 2018 in Rome, Italy, where he attended several specialized lectures on Film Direction.
Between 2018 and 2022, he served as general coordinator and head of development at Castello Errante: Residenza Internazionale del Cinema (Rome, Italy), a format that connects Europe and Latin America through the development and production of audiovisual works by emerging filmmakers from Central and South America and Italy in educational contexts. This initiative has been supported by the Ibermedia Program, the Italian Ministry of Culture, and the Lazio Region. In this context, he was additionally invited to participate as a lecturer, delivering talks on fiction development and screenwriting for film students from Latin America and Italy. Simultaneously, he is part of the production company Occhi Di Giove, based in Rome, Italy, where he focuses on cultural management and the development of fiction and documentary projects.
He is the author and screenwriter of Emisario del Sol (2024), a graphic narrative project in development with art by Paulo Oñate. He is a founding member of the production company Malagüero Films, focused on the development and production of stories with an interdisciplinary approach between Chile and Europe. There, he works as a director, screenwriter, and head of project development. He is also a member of the Corporation of Audiovisual Directors and Screenwriters of Chile DYGA.