Dominga Sotomayor was born in 1985 in Santiago in Chile: she is a screenplay writer, director and co-founder of the Centro de Cine y Creación, a new cinema in Santiago. Her first film, Thursday till Sunday, was developed at the Résidence of the Cinéfondation in Cannes and won the Festival of Rotterdam in 2012. With Too Late To Die Young (2018), she was the first woman to receive the Golden Pardo at the Festival of Locarno.