Agustina Chiarino was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1977. She studied Political Sciences, is a Bachelor in Social Communication and Master in Creative Documentary.
She was a partner in CONTROL Z FILMS and then founded MUTANTE CINE with Fernando Epstein. In 2022 she launched BOCACHA FILMS. She produced the features: The Disciple of Speed and Loss Adjustment (Miguel Calderón), Giant, El 5 and The Waves (Adrián Biniez), Hiroshima and 3 (Pablo Stoll), So Much Water, Alelí, Don't You Let Me Go (Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge), I Woke Up With a Dream (Pablo Solarz) and the documentaries Bosco (Alicia Cano), Alter (Joaquín González) and To Say Goodbye (Carolina Sa). She co-produced Benjamín Nahistat’s History of Fear, Ana Katz’s My Friend from the Park, Gustavo Pizzi’s Loveling, Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses, Alejandro Landes’ Monos, Vanina Spataro’s Shipwrecks and Sebastián Peña Escobar’s The Last. Her films have premiered at Festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, San Sebastián, Sundance and Toronto, receiving several international awards.
She chaired Channel 10′s National Production Department’s committee for receiving and developing new projects for 8 years. She taught courses at EICTV Cuba and at various universities in Uruguay. She has tutored at Biennale College (Venice Film festival), BrLab (Brasil), BiobioLab (Chile), BAM and PUENTES –of which she is a co-organizer alongside EAVE international–, and has been an evaluator at the Torino Scriptlab, INCAA’s Incubator, Doha Film Institute, Sundance, Locarno’s Open Doors, WEMW and Ventana Sur. She is launching -with Torino Film lab- the first edition of Green Latam Lab for latinamerican producers in Uruguay.
She is part of the pre-selection committee at San Sebastián’s Festival Coproduction Forum and ECAM Forum. She has been a jury member at different project development and finalization competitions and at international film festivals such as San Sebastián, BAFICI, Miami, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Cartagena, Guadalajara and Transilvania. In 2024 she was general consultant for Ventana Sur, the biggest market in Latin America, in it´s edition in Montevideo. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and a founding member of the Uruguayan Film Academy.