He is an award-winner Chilean screenwriter, director, and producer. He wrote with director Sebastián LELIO’s four films: Christmas (2009) which was premiered in Cannes Director’s Fortnight, The Year of the Tigre (2011), S\\ed for the Official Competition at the Locarno Film Festival, Gloria (2013) and A Fantastic Woman (2017), which were invited to the Official Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. A Fantastic Woman won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2018. As a screenwriter, Gonzalo MAZA was awarded a Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for A Fantastic Woman and also has received two Platino Awards from the Ibero-American Academy Awards for the writing of this film and Gloria. Currently, he is releasing This is Cristina, his first feature in the director chair.