DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR (*1985, Santiago de Chile) is a writer director, co-founder of the production company CINESTACIóN and CCC, Centro de Cine y Creación, a new arthouse cinema and center in Santiago. Her first feature film Thursday till Sunday was developed at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence and won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2012. In 2013 she co-directed the short film The Island that also won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. In 2015, she premiered Mar at the Berlinale Forum and co-directed the collective film Here in Lisbon in Portugal.

For her last film, Too Late To Die Young (2018),  Sotomayor became the first woman to receive the Leopard for Best Direction at Locarno Film Festival. She has made videos and photographs for exhibitions like Little Sun (Olafur Eliasson) at Tate Modern 2012. Recently she premiered the short film Correspondencia (2020) , co-directed with Carla Simón, and the collective feature film The year of the everlasting storm premiered in Cannes in 2021. Currently, she is a Visitor Professor in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University.