Nicolás Javier López Fernández (born March 16, 1983) is a Chilean
film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for comedies
such as Promedio Rojo (2004), the Qué pena trilogy (2010-2012), and
the Paz Bascuñán vehicles Sin filtro (2016) and No estoy loca
(2018).López became interested in filmmaking at a young age. After
reading Robert Rodriguez's Rebel Without a Crew (1995) and watching
Kevin Smith's Clerks (1994), he began experimenting with his family's
video camera. By the age of 12, he was already writing a column for El
Mercurio, one of the most prestigious and conservative right-wing
Chilean newspapers. His column, "Memorias de un Pingüino" ("Memories
of a Penguin"), ran from 1997 to 1999 and described the life of a
student, commonly known as a "penguin" in Chile because of the typical
black and white uniform. The comments he made in the column led to him
being expelled from school. At the age of 14, after his expulsion, he
began a new column called "López" with a more mature style.At the age
of 15, López made his debut at the Valdivia Film Festival with the
short film Pajero (“wanker†), which tells the story of a teenager
constantly interrupted during masturbation. The next year he filmed
Superhéroes, the story of a teenager who tries to convince people
that he is a superhero, and in 2000 he filmed Florofilia, a love story
between a man and a plant. He became partner and co-founder of
sobras.com, a website about cinema, television, books, comics and
video games that focused on young audiences. He then founded the first
independent film festival in Santiago, the "Sobras Independent Film
Festival", as well as Sobras.com Producciones, a film production
company. As associate producer, López took charge of the marketing of
Jorge OlguÃn's horror movie à ngel Negro in 2000, and the adult
animation Cesante (“unemployed†), which he co-wrote. He also ran
the marketing for other Chilean films such as OlguÃn's Sangre Eterna
(2002) and Orlando Lübbert's Taxi para tres (2001). He co-directed
many music videos, and won an MTV Latin Music Award in 2002 for "Mujer
Robusta" by Sinergia. He co-wrote the 2003 edition of the MTV Latin
Music Award and, also in 2003, he directed, co-wrote and acted in an
absurd comedy series for the same network, called Piloto MTV, along
with Eduardo Bertrán.At the age of 20, López directed his first
feature film, Promedio Rojo (2004), an absurdist romantic comedy about
teenage nerds, in which the main character slips in and out of
reality, with the ‘unreal’ scenes animated. He won the special
jury prize at the Viña del Mar International Film Festival, and
featured in the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and LA Film
Fest. Although the film was criticized in his native country, it
caught the attention of international directors and other industry
personalities including Salma Hayek, Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro
González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro. In 2005, and with a
bigger budget, López began working on Santos, a film about a failed
comic artist. Released in 2008, the film was poorly received by
critics and did not fulfill its financial expectations. In 2010, after
the failure of Santos, López wrote and directed his highest-grossing
film yet, Qué pena tu vida, spawning two sequels and building a cast
of regular actors such as Ariel Levy, Paz Bascuñán, Lorenza Izzo,
Andrea Velasco, Ignacia Allamand, Nicolás MartÃnez, Ramón Llao and
Alison Mandel. Nicolás López (director) Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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