Marialy Rivas

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.