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Bettina Perut was born in Rome, Italy, in 1970.
Iván Osnovikoff was born in Puerto Montt, Chile, in 1966.

Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff met in 1997 and co-directed Chichichi Lelele Martín Vargas from Chile (2000), an observational documentary film about the comeback of a fallen boxing idol and his impact on Chilean society. Between 2000 and 2002 they produced and directed A Man Aside (2002), the film is a deep and raw metaphor on the human condition, as it depicts the decline of Ricardo Liaño and his obsession to become a millionaire while in his eighties. During 2003 and 2004 they directed and produced Clever Monkey Pinochet Versus La Moneda’s Pigs (2004), provocative experimental documentary, the film details the military coup of 1973 through children reenacting the historical events. In 2004 Perut and Osnovikoff moved to the United States for the making of Welcome to New York (2006), an inventive documentary in which the directors show their irreverent and sarcastic vision of the “Capital of the World.” In 2006 they went back to Chile and began the production of News (2009), the documentary questions the methods through which a country creates the day to day reality through the media. Afterwards, the directors made The Death of Pinochet (2011), a sarcastic chronicle of the death and funerals of the former Chilean dictator.