In February 2008 , setting aside a script based on his trip to Hollywood , Silva wrote ( with Pedro Peirano ) and directed his next film : '' The Maid '' . The film , released in 2009 , told the story of a maid trying to keep her job after having served a family for 23 years . It has won multiple awards , including the Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Dramatic at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival , and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Golden Globes Awards and the 2010 NAACP Image Awards . Film critic David Parkinson called the film " an exceptional study of the emotional investment that domestics make in the families they serve . " Silva partnered with Pedro Peirano again to write his next film , '' Old Cats '' , which premiered in 2010 at the Valdivia International Film Festival in Chile and at the New York Film Festival in the United States . He then made his TV debut in 2012 when he wrote , directed and produced the HBO short-form TV comedy show '' The Boring Life of Jacqueline ''
2010 Golden Globes Awards
67th Golden Globe Awards
Sebastián Silva (director)