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Date of Birth
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1965
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Place of Birth
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Santiago
(Chile, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province, Chile)
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Nationality
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Chile
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Also know as
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Andres Wood, Andrés Wood Montt, Andrés Wood Montt
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Profession
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Film Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter
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Andrés Wood Montt is a Chilean film director born in 1965. He is most famous for the films Historias de fútbol / Soccer Stories, La Fiebre del Loco / The Crazy Man's Fever, his most well known film Machuca and his most recent The Good Life / La buena vida. His 2011 film Violeta was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Wood is a Chilean of Irish and Scottish descent. He was educated at Saint George's College, a Catholic school in Santiago. He graduated as an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1988. In 1991 he studied at the New York University Film School.
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