Javiera Balmaceda is the Amazon Studios Head of Originals for Latin America, Canada, Australia
& New Zealand, overseeing the development of all local original content in those territories for
Prime Video. Since joining Prime Video in 2017, Javiera has served as the creative lead on a
growing slate of Amazon Original series including fan favorite De Viaje con los
Derbez, Llaves, and Noticias de un Secuestro, as well as the wildly popular FIFAGATE drama El
Presidente showrun by Armando Bo, the Emmy winning political talk show hosted by Diego
Luna, Pan y Circo, and most recently the Golden Globe winner for Foreign Language
Film, Argentina, 1985 directed by Santiago Mitre and starring Ricardo Darin.
With a career spanning nearly two decades in the entertainment industry, Javiera has managed
a range of content related departments for various international media companies, and most
recently served as the Director of Programming for HBO Latin American.
A native of Chile, Javiera holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University.
