# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marialy-rivas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:59:08.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marialy-rivas"
name: "Marialy Rivas"
slug: "marialy-rivas"
description: "Marialy Rivas is a Chilean screenwriter and film director, best known for her 2012 film Young and Wild, which won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. She was raised in Chile during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Rivas is openly lesbian and has discussed the challenges of being open about her sexuality in Chile, where she noted that it is often considered impolite to publicly acknowledge being gay, even when it is widely known."
tagline: "Chilean screenwriter and film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marialy_Rivas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             10.24844720496894
  historical:           5.278546666666667
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/marialy_rivas"
    handle:    "marialy_rivas"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729086/"
    handle:    "nm0729086"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marialy_Rivas"
    title: "Marialy Rivas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marialy_Rivas"
    title: "Marialy Rivas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marialy_Rivas"
    title: "Marialy Rivas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marialy_Rivas"
    title: "Marialy Rivas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marialy_Rivas"
    title: "Marialy Rivas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5997364"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/930713"
    title: "Marialy Rivas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump