Ginés Olivares was born in 1976 in Santiago de Chile and graduated from Universidad Arcis as a Filmmaker.

After finishing his studies he started to edit documentaries for Chilean Television and to create “video-poetry”.

In 2002 he moved to Berlin, Germany, and currently works as a free-lancer in different projects as a cameraman and editor. In 2008 he won together with Wolfgang Reinke the “Bild-Kunst Dokumentarfilm Schnitt Preis” for Best Editing with the feature film documentary “Nicht böse sein”, prize awarded by the German Association of Film Editors, film in which he was also involved as a cameraman.