Director
José Luis Torres Leiva
51 years · Chile · 28 films
José Luis Torres Leiva (born 1975, Chile) is a film director, editor, and screenwriter. He has made a considerable number of short films and independent videos. The Sky, the Earth and the Rain (2008) was his first feature film. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), it was nominated for a Tiger Award and won the FIPRESCI Award at IFFR in 2008. Summertime has also been supported by the HBF and had its premiere at the Venice film festival in 2011.
Best known for
Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes
2019 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
Aurora
2014 · Editor
The Sky, the Earth and the Rain
2008 · Director, Writer
The Winds Know That I'm Coming Back Home
2016 · Director, Editor
On DocAlliance Films
Verano
2011 · Director, Screenplay
On Runtime
Absence
2017 · Editor
Filmography 28
When Clouds Hide the Shadow
2025 · Director, Writer
A Dark Light
2024 · Editor
Alicia Dreams of a Lighthouse
2021 · Director
Against all the evils of the world
2021 · Director, Screenplay
Winter: Images of Contemporary Chilean Architecture
2020 · Director
Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes
2019 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
Perros sin cola
2019 · Editor
About Things That Happened to Me
2018 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
Absence
2017 · Editor
Nada pertenece a la memoria
2017 · Director, Writer
All the Letters that I Never Sent
2017 · Director, Screenplay
On DocAlliance Films
Como me da la gana II
2016 · Self
On DocAlliance Films
The Winds Know That I'm Coming Back Home
2016 · Director, Editor
On DocAlliance Films
Adios amigo mío, sin gestos, sin palabras
2015 · Director, Cinematography
Aurora
2014 · Editor
11 Habitaciones en Antártica
2013 · Director, Cinematography
What Is This Story and How Does It End?
2013 · Director
Candelaria
2013 · Cinematography
Verano
2011 · Director, Screenplay
On Runtime
The Little White Doves
2011 · Director
Lucia
2011 · Producer, Editor
Un minuto de silencio
2010 · Director, Writer
On Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
The Sky, the Earth and the Rain
2008 · Director, Writer
El mal
2004 · Director, Cinematography