Manuela Martelli

Manuela Martelli

Born: April 16, 1983
in Santiago, Chile
Manuela Martelli is a Chilean actress and director

At the young age of 18 and without previous studies of theater Manuela Martelli was chosen to star in the film B-Happy, by Gonzalo Justiniano. The film received excellent critics and immediately the actress became the revelation of the Chilean cinema, captivating to the national and international critic. For this work she drew attention at the Toronto Film Festival and then won the Coral Award for Best Actress at the Havana Film Festival, in addition to the Best Actress Award at the Washington Latin American Film Festival. Machuca, by Andrés Wood was his next movie where he showed that his striking debut was not a beginner's luck. For her role in Machuca Manuela Martelli received the award for best actress at the Viña del Mar Festival and the Altazor Prize, awarded by the Chilean actors' guild. His third film, Como Un Avión Estrellado by Argentine director Ezequiel Acuña is his first film outside of Chile. The beginning of her cinematographic career could have been even more active, but she chose to finish her art baccalaureate studies at the Catholic University of Chile and then pursue a theatrical acting career at the same university. In 2010 he started studying film in the United States thanks to the support of a Fullbright Scholarship and Scholarships Chile

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Vera De Verdad
Title: Vera De Verdad
Character: Clara
Released: November 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Vera, a ten-year-old girl who loves astronomy, disappears without a trace while walking with Claudio, her teacher, near the cliff of Punta Crena, in Liguria. Two years later she returns, but instead of being a teenager, she is a woman of about twenty-five years old. She doesn’t remember anything. When images resurface in her memory, Vera realizes that she has lived the life of a man, clinically dead, who woke up at the same moment in which she vanished in nothing.
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Overnight
Title: Overnight
Character: Laura
Released: June 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Ignacio embarks on a trip driven by the coincidences that bring together the news that his young girlfriend is pregnant and an invitation to a seminar in Chile almost simultaneously.
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Entierro
Title: Entierro
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 9, 2020
Type: Movie
This documentary was born with the idea of portray accurately and factually the story of the famous Chilean artist Carmengloria Morales through her art and her relationship with music.
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Valparaiso
Title: Valparaiso
Character: Rocío
Released: August 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Rocio is 20 years old and has been detained in an identification and expulsion center in Rome, pending deportation to her country of origin. During her detention Rocio has become pregnant, but she is unwilling to reveal how or with whom this has happened, preferring to remain silent. By law, pregnant women cannot be detained. So Rocio is released, four months into her pregnancy and with a temporary permit of stay on maternity grounds. Now she is free, but must also go ahead with an unwanted pregnancy.
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Two Shots Fired
Title: Two Shots Fired
Character: Lucía
Released: August 11, 2014
Type: Movie
Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a woman to join his medieval wind ensemble.
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Forgotten
Title: Forgotten
Released: July 31, 2014
Type: Movie
José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by memories of his involvement in Operation Condor and invaded by deep remorse, he decides to tell his only son his biggest secrets in search of redemption.
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Up to the World
Title: Up to the World
Character: Ana
Released: May 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Davide and Loris are brothers and live in a very small village in the north of Italy. While Davide is eighteen years old and gay, Loris is almost thirty and doesn't know anything about his brother's sexuality.
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Title: La canción de tu vida
Character: Isa
Released: January 13, 2014
Type: TV
Eight people meet the famous Chilean radio host, "El Rumpy," and tell him about their love or heartbreak experiences. Be it a drama or a happy ending, there is a song that is part of the story, and the story is part of the song.
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11 Habitaciones en Antártica
Title: 11 Habitaciones en Antártica
Released: November 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms.
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The Magnetic Tree
Title: The Magnetic Tree
Character: Marianela
Released: September 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local curiosity with strange properties, will awaken almost forgotten feelings and affections in the boy.
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The Future
Title: The Future
Character: Bianca
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
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My Last Round
Title: My Last Round
Character: Jennifer
Released: January 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Hugo becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, but their relationship is tested when Hugo finds a new job in the city.
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Title: Karma
Character: Margarita
Released: January 8, 2011
Type: TV
Stories centered on relationships from a sexual point of view.
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Title: Cartas de mujer
Character: Leontina
Released: August 31, 2010
Type: TV
Intimate stories of women throughout the History of Chile, told by a medium that crosses times and generations: Letters.
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Title: Feroz
Character: Amanda Carrera
Released: March 8, 2010
Type: TV
When the Cruz family return to their hometown, they are victims of strange events related to werewolves.
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Christmas
Title: Christmas
Character: Aurora
Released: November 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Alejandro and Aurora, two young students, leave Santiago and are on their way to spend Christmas with family in Aurora. At the foot of the Andes, the frustrations of Alejandro and Aurora’s doubts about her sexual identity cause tension. The two teens are on the verge of collapse when they discover the presence of a young girl, Alicia, a fragile girl of sixteen years who has fled her home. Gathered around an improvised Christmas tree, Alejandro and Aurora are fascinated by the enigmatic Alicia, who is becoming the object of their desire.
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The Good Life
Title: The Good Life
Character: Paula
Released: August 14, 2008
Type: Movie
In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.
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Sonetàula
Title: Sonetàula
Released: March 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A disenchanted young shepherd's world is torn apart when his father is unjustly incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit.
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Radio Corazón
Title: Radio Corazón
Character: Berenice 'Nice' Riquelme
Released: October 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Radio Corazón recreates Chile's most successful radio show of all time. Composed of 3 fun, sexy and romantic short films based on true stories as told by the show's listeners to "Rumpy", an unparalleled radio host.
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¡Pega Martín pega!
Title: ¡Pega Martín pega!
Released: May 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Scrambled Beer
Title: Scrambled Beer
Character: Fedora
Released: March 10, 2007
Type: Movie
After moving into a new house with his friend, Vladimir starts to notice that he awakes every day in a different week as if he has traveled trough time. Could it be the popular local drink -- beer with eggs?
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Title: Huaiquimán y Tolosa
Character: Sofía Santos
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: TV
A pair of private detectives solve crimes and protect the Patronato district in Santiago, the most important commercial district of immigrants in Chile, facing dangerous mobsters and criminals.
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Baño de mujeres
Title: Baño de mujeres
Character: Soledad
Released: November 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Three women get locked in the bathroom of an airport. This confinement becomes some sort of therapy that reveals the truth of each one of them.
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Como un avión estrellado
Title: Como un avión estrellado
Character: Luchi
Released: October 27, 2005
Type: Movie
A young man becomes obsessed with a gardening student who is about to leave for Switzerland.
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Machuca
Title: Machuca
Character: Silvana
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
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B-Happy
Title: B-Happy
Character: Katty
Released: January 9, 2004
Type: Movie
A determined teenager must rely on her own wits when her fractured family abandons her.
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Title: De pé a pá
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 1996
Type: TV
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Detrás de la lluvia
Title: Detrás de la lluvia
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A brutal sexual murder of a minor revolts the anger of the town. On the other hand, a psychologist, Sofia Belmar is not only shocked by the event, but this also brings back some of her more gruesome memories.