Omar Zuñiga Hidalgo was born in 1985 in Santiago, Chile. He is currently finishing the Graduate Film Program at New York University, as a scholarship student by the Fullbright Program and the Ministry of Education of Chile. He has made many fiction short films in Chile and in the United States, which have been screened in festivals such as Rome, Reykjavik, Sanfic and QueerLisboa, among others. He is now developing his first feature film, San Cristóbal.