Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff met in 1997 and co-directed
Chichichi Lelele Martín Vargas de Chile (2000), observational documentary film about the come back of a fallen boxing idol and its impact on Chilean society. Between 2000 and 2002 they produced and directed A Man Aside (Un Hombre A Parte, 2002), deep and raw metaphor on human condition depicting the decline of Ricardo Liaño and his obsession to become a millionaire in his eighties. During 2003 and 2004 they directed and produced
Clever Monkey Pinochet Versus La Moneda’s Pigs (
El Astuto Mono Pinochet contra La Moneda de los Cerdos, 2004) a provocative experimentation on the 1973 Chilean military coup featuring child and youth reenacting the historical facts. In 2004 Perut and Osnovikoff moved to the United States for the making of
Welcome to New York (2006), inverted ethnography in which the directors show their irreverent and sarcastic vision of the
Capital of the World. In 2006 they went back to Chile and began the production of
News (Noticias, 2009), observational film proposing a radical cinematic glance to the same reality depicted by the media. Afterwards, the directors made
The Death of Pinochet (La Muerte de Pinochet, 2011) , sarcastic chronicle of the death and funerals of the former Chilean dictator.
Bettina Perut was born in Rome, Italy, in 1970.
Iván Osnovikoff was born in Puerto Montt, Chile, in 1966. They are now producing a new film called Surire. They have been objects of awards and retrospectives around the World.
