María Teresa Larraín
Award-winning Chilean-Canadian Producer, Director and Writer Maria Teresa Larrain is the head of Maremoto Productions which she founded in 2008. She studied Law and Drama in Chile and immigrated to Canada in 1976. After graduating from the Radio and Television Arts Program at Ryerson University in 1989, she wrote, produced and directed several television documentaries, working as an independent filmmaker both in Chile and Canada. In 2006 and while editing Besieged Land (2007), Maria Teresa started going blind. Between 2011 and 2016 she shot Shadow Girl. She is now working on the impact campaign for Bodies in Crisis (2025), and taking Critical Disabilities Studies at the Toronto Metropolitan University.
During her filmmaking career Maria Teresa has participated in several professional development programs and screenings including, the Sundance Film Institute, Allan King’s Documentary Studio, the Canadian Film Centre, the National Film Board of Canada, The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and Miradoc in Chile. She is also a member of ADOCS (Association of Chilean Documentarians).
Teresa Ariztía
Teresa Ariztía has been actively involved in the film industry since 2011, when she began working on Shadow Girl with María Teresa Larraín. Since then, she has honed her production, research and distribution skills by participating in various audiovisual projects with social impact, including The Inca Prince, directed by Ana María Hurtado, and The Humidity of the Desert, directed by Felipe Arancibia. She has also collaborated on the interactive projects To Walk Alone VR and the webdoc Beyond the Shadows, also directed by Larraín.
In 2020, while completing her Master’s degree in Sociology, Social Transformations, and Innovation at the University of Barcelona, Teresa began working as a co-producer and researcher on Bodies in Crisis (2025) with Larraín. She is now co-designing the impact campaign for Bodies in Crisis as Outreach and Engagement Coordinator and Strategic Designer.
Joaquín Zamorano
Joaquín Zamorano is an educational psychologist and Master’s degree in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary Making from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2024). He has worked in cultural mediation and audience development through the audience and public engagement department at Cine Arte Normandie (Santiago) and the CPCV (Valdivia). He has also worked in film festival programming at the International Film Festival MECAL PRO in Barcelona (2024). Joaquín was involved in research, archival work, and scriptwriting for the documentary Save Gota de Leche (Chile, 2024), produced by the environmental NGO Fundación Territorio Costero, also contributing to the international and national touring of the film.
Since 2025, he has been working with Maremoto Productions on the distribution and impact campaign for Bodies in Crisis (2025).