José Luis Torres Leiva
José Luis Torres Leiva (born 1975, Chile) is a film director, editor, and screenwriter.
He has made a considerable number of short films and independent videos. The Sky, the Earth and the Rain (2008) was his first feature film. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), it was nominated for a Tiger Award and won the FIPRESCI Award at IFFR in 2008. Summertime has also been supported by the HBF and had its premiere at the Venice film festival in 2011.
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Movies (53)

When Clouds Hide the Shadow
2025 · Director, Writer, Editor

A Dark Light
2024 · Editor

Under the Sky Shelter
2022 · Script Supervisor

Alicia Dreams of a Lighthouse
2021 · Director

Against all the evils of the world
2021 · Director, Screenplay, Editor

Winter: Images of Contemporary Chilean Architecture
2020 · Director

Ni juntos, ni solos
2020 · Script Consultant

Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes
2019 · Director, Editor, Writer

Perros sin cola
2019 · Editor, Script Consultant

The Guru
2019 · Editorial Consultant

About Things That Happened to Me
2018 · Writer, Director, Editor

Enigma
2018 · Script Consultant

Absence
2017 · Editor

Rey
2017 · Development Producer

Nada pertenece a la memoria
2017 · Editor, Director, Writer
Ana's Dream
2017 · Director, Editor, Writer

All the Letters that I Never Sent
2017 · Screenplay, Director, Editor
Los soñadores
2016 · Director

Como me da la gana II
2016 · Self

The Winds Know That I'm Coming Back Home
2016 · Director, Editor

Adios amigo mío, sin gestos, sin palabras
2015 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay

Land and Shade
2015 · Script Consultant

Aurora
2014 · Editor, Art Direction

Tea Time
2014 · Thanks
See and Listen
2014 · Director

11 Habitaciones en Antártica
2013 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Camera Operator

The Future
2013 · Thanks

What Is This Story and How Does It End?
2013 · Director

Candelaria
2013 · Director of Photography

Thursday Till Sunday
2012 · Other

By the Fire
2012 · Other
Copia imperfecta: para Raúl Ruiz
2012 · Director

Verano
2011 · Director, Screenplay, Editor

The Little White Doves
2011 · Director

Lucia
2011 · Assistant Director, Producer, Editor

Ocaso
2010 · Thanks
Three Weeks Later
2010 · Director

Un minuto de silencio
2010 · Writer, Director
Primer día de invierno
2010 · Writer, Director

The Sky, the Earth and the Rain
2008 · Director, Writer
Trance
2008 · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor, Director of Photography
The Time that Rests
2007 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Women Workers Leaving the Factory
2005 · Director, Writer, Editor

El mal
2004 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography

Empezando de cero
2004 · Director, Cinematography, Writer

Los ojos abiertos
2004 · Writer, Director
No Place in Anywhere
2003 · Writer, Director of Photography, Sound Editor, Director, Editor, Producer

No tengo nada que decir
2003 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor

Confesiones de un caballo suicida
2002 · Cinematography, Writer, Director
Intermediate
· Director
Nocturnal. Leo Quinteros
· Director
The Arm of Sandow
· Director

"Ways to get into heaven"
· Production Supervisor
TV shows (0)
No credits available.

