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After reading Robert Rodriguez's Rebel without a Crew and watching Kevin Smith's Clerks, Nicolas Lopez decided to take his parents' video camera and shoot his first short films...he was only ten years old. At the age of fifteen, he managed to set down a coherent story and made his first appearance in local festivals with the short film, Pajero, (Wanker (1998)), the story of a boy who always gets interrupted while trying to masturbate. Later on, he discovered digital video and rented a camera to shoot Superheroes (1999), the story of a guy who tries to convince the world that he is Superman. He then shot the medium length film Florofilia (2000), a tender love story between a man and a...plant.

Lopez started writing for Chile's most important newspaper (El Mercurio) at only 12 years of age. After writing sporadically for a while, he got his own weekly column (in the youth supplement Contact Zone), in which he told everything that happened to him at school, live - or worse: uncut - The column "Memories of a Penguin" lasted from 1997 to 1999, getting Lopez devoted followers and, of course, the expulsion from school for telling too many "honest" things about the Chilean educative system.

In 1998, he founded the site www.sobras.com, based on comments on films, television, video games and comic books. Sobras grew and soon became Lopez's production company (Sobras Productions) and the only film festival in Santiago de Chile (The Sobras Film Festival). He has directed music videos (he was nominated for the MTV Video Music Awards 2002) and participated as a co-director, co-writer and co-star in the absurd sitcom "Piloto MTV" (2004), broadcast by MTV to all Latin America. "Piloto MTV" was a show where Lopez, as himself, tried to sell a different pilot to MTV in every episode. The pilot was always rejected. He was one of the scriptwriters of the MTV Latin Awards 2003.

Lopez has been marketing director for several feature films in Chile and associate producer for Angel Negro (2000) and the animation feature film Cesante (Unemployed (2003)). In 2004, he directed his first feature film: Promedio Rojo, self-defined as a black romantic teenage comedy with superpowers. Promedio Rojo was shot in High Resolution, as a Chile-Spain co-production. It was a smashing box-office success since its release in November 2004 and got an unmatched marketing line for a Latin-American film, including a book, shirts, notebooks, soundtrack released by Universal Music, etc. It was selected by film festivals in Argentina (The A Class Mar del Plata International Film Festival), Chile (winner of the Viña del Mar International Film Festival Jury Award), Spain (Sitges International Film Festival) and the US (SXSW Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival).

He has recently signed with United Talent Agency and Guy Walks Into A Bar for management. At the moment, he is writing the script of his next feature film: Santos, a black comedy that aims to break the rules on which superheroes' films stand.

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