Diego Alonso Fuentes Badilla (born September 11, 2000, Chile), better known as “Mapache,” is a director, executive producer, and screenwriter. His films are characterized by their focus on marginalized characters: stories of dissidents and misfits, with a blend of intimate sensitivity and monstrosity.

He is currently developing his second feature film, Corazón de Polilla, a queer and fantastical exploration of identity, metamorphosis, and desire, which blends body horror, road movie, and intimate melodrama. Mapache understands cinema as a space of freedom, where the poetic, the chaotic, and the grotesque coexist, and where characters who are “left over” in society find a central place on the screen.