Director: Sebastián Silva
Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Silva
Screenplay: Sebastián Silva, Pedro Peirano
Cinematographer: Sergio Armstrong
Editor: Danielle Fillios
Cast: Gabriel Díaz, Diego Muñoz, Amparo Noguera

Gaspar is a cameraman prone to depression who has not been able to get over his older brother’s untimely death. Everything in his environment makes him retreat further into himself and feed his melancholy: from the ridiculous and pretentious experimental short film he is involved in with an egocentric actress; to his home, where only his sister Margarita, a nurse, tries to
help the family pull through. The household is also made up of a dying grandfather and an almost imperceptible mother. When Gaspar begins to seriously consider suicide, chance will have him meet Álvaro, an eccentric youth whose favourite subject is death, and who seems to the cameraman to be the reincarnation of his brother.

Gaspar es un depresivo camarógrafo que no ha podido superar la temprana muerte de su hermano mayor. Todo su entorno lo hace encerrarse cada vez más en sí mismo y alimentar su melancolía: desde el ridículo y pretencioso cortometraje experimental en el que está colaborando al servicio de una egocéntrica actriz, hasta su hogar, en el que sólo Margarita, su hermana enfermera, intenta sacar adelante a la familia, compuesta además por un abuelo moribundo y una madre casi imperceptible. Cuando Gaspar ya está pensando seriamente en el suicidio, una casualidad lo hará conocer a Álvaro, un joven excéntrico, desprejuiciado e infantil, cuyo tema favorito es la muerte y en el cual el camarógrafo cree encontrar a la reencarnación de su hermano.

Sebastián Silva is a multifaceted artist whose work includes painting, illustration and popular music. His paintings have been exhibited in Santiago and New York, and one of his three bands, Los Monos, was picked up for distribution in the United States and the United Kingdom by Sonic360. La Vida Me Mata is his first film; it won numerous awards in Chile, earning him the attention of critics and filmmakers. His second film, La Nana (The Maid), won the International Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

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