Javiera Mardones Ballesteros

Biography

Javiera Mardones Ballesteros is a Chilean journalist, writer, and filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of documentary cinema, family memory, and literature. Her projects often draw on personal archives, intimate storytelling, and autobiographical narratives.

She participated in the short film "Bus Window Diaries" and is currently developing short film projects in collaboration with filmmaker Juan Francisco Ossa.

Her first documentary short film, "Letter to Mario" ("Carta a Mario"), is an audiovisual letter addressed to her Argentine grandfather, whose existence she only recently discovered and never had the opportunity to meet. Through family archive material, the film reflects...