Maite Alberdi was born in Santiago, Chile, and is an audiovisual director, filmmaker, screenwriter and critic of Chilean cinema. She is internationally recognized for her documentaries La Once and Los Niños, for which she won the prize for the Best Female Documentary Director at the renowned Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival. She is audiovisual director of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and holds a degree in aesthetics and social communication from the same university. She has also worked as a montageist, sound engineer, executive producer and director of photography in several national films and documentaries.
