Francisco Arevalo is a videographer born in 1963 in Santiago (Chile). He studied Communication and Advertising at the Pacific Institute of Santiago. Since 1987, he has devoted his work to video. At the 7th Franco-Chilean Festival of video-art, his work Embrion won the award for Best Video. He later won a grant to finance Cargadores de Fantasia in a writing competition organized by the French embassy in collaboration with Chilean producers. In 1989, for the 200th celebration of the French Revolution, he received an invitation by the French government to direct a video-travel diary taped in Paris, Lille and Biarritz.