Andrés Wood

Who is Andrés Wood?

Andrés Wood Montt is a Chilean film director born in 1965. He is most famous for the films Historias de fútbol / Soccer Stories, La Fiebre del Loco / The Crazy Man's Fever, his most well known film Machuca and his most recent The Good Life / La buena vida. His 2011 film Violeta Went to Heaven was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. and was awarded the World Cinema Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Wood is a Chilean of Irish and Scottish descent. He was educated at Saint George's College, a Catholic school in Santiago. He graduated as an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1988. In 1991 he studied at the New York University Film School.