Santiago de Chile · 33.44° S — Rec.709 · 24 fps · Est. 2019

SALAR

El color, bajo el cielo más limpio del mundo.

Color grading and finishing for feature film, commercials, and music videos. Named for the Atacama salt flats — the driest air on Earth, where the world keeps its telescopes. We work in that light.

01 / Trabajo

Selected grades

Every frame arrived flat. None left that way.

Largometraje · dir. Valentina Reyes · 2025

Cordillera

A desert western graded toward bone and rust. One LUT held for ninety-six minutes; printer lights did the rest.

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Graded still from Cordillera: warm amber caustic light through rippled glass, deep shadow on the left.

Video musical · dir. Pablo Andrade · 2025

Neón Austral

Sodium night, cyan interiors, one unbroken take. The grade holds the blue channel like a breath.

Graded still from Neón Austral: a cold cyan beam of light cutting through smoke in darkness.

Comercial · Aguasur · 2024

Mareas

Cold Pacific greens held just short of grey. Thirty seconds, four hundred decisions.

Graded still from Mareas: green-teal caustic threads of light against a black field.

Documental · dir. Carmen Soto · 2024

La Ruta de la Sal

Ninety minutes of white on white. The hardest grade is the one nobody notices.

Video musical · dir. Anaïs Fuentes · 2024

Fiebre

Skin tones pushed to the edge of red and kept there for three minutes.

02 / Oficio

The craft

Grading is subtraction. The image already contains its best version — our work is to remove everything that isn’t it.

Three channels. One image. That is the whole job.

03 / Estudio

One room, one colorist

One suite in Barrio Italia, Santiago. A calibrated projector, black walls, a silent room, and time. We take fewer projects than we are offered, and we finish every one of them ourselves.

SALAR is led by senior colorist Emilia Contreras — twelve years of features and commercials across Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. She grades every frame that carries the studio’s name.

  • SuiteDaVinci Resolve · 4K DCI
  • ReferenceCalibrated XYZ projection
  • DeliveryDCP · Dolby Vision · Broadcast
  • SessionsIn suite · Remote (Streambox)

04 / Contacto

Tell us about your film

hola@salar.cl
Av. Italia 1234 · Providencia · Santiago +56 2 2634 8800 Lunes a viernes, 9–19 h