Maite Alberdi is an Academy Award–nominated Chilean filmmaker and the first Chilean documentary director ever nominated for an Oscar®. She made her feature debut with THE LIFEGUARD (2011), followed by TEA TIME (2015), which won more than a dozen international awards and was nominated for a Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film.
In 2016, she released the short film I AM NOT FROM HERE, nominated for a European Film Award, along with her feature THE GROWN-UPS, which received 10 international awards. Her breakthrough film THE MOLE AGENT premiered at Sundance in 2020 and went on to earn Academy Award, Goya, Ariel, and Platino nominations for Best Documentary.
Her 2023 documentary THE ETERNAL MEMORY was nominated for an Academy Award®, won the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film, and received the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Her 2024 feature IN HER PLACE was nominated for a Goya Award.