| Andrés Wood | |
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Andrés Wood |
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| Born | 1965 (age 46–47) Santiago, Chile |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1994 – present |
Andrés Wood Montt is a Chilean film director born in 1965. He is most famous for the films Historias de Fútbol / Soccer Stories (1997), La Fiebre del Loco[1] / Loco Fever (2002), his most well known film Machuca (2004) and his most recent La Buena Vida/ The Good Life (2008). His 2011 film Violeta has been selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.[2]
Wood is a Chilean of Irish and Scottish descent. He was educated at a private English school in Santiago. He graduated as an economist from the Catholic University of Chile in 1988. In 1991 he studied at the New York University Film School.