She graduated from Universidad Católica de Chile with a degree on Audiovisual Direction in 2007,[1] followed by a Master at the Escola de Cinema y Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC) in Film direction. She directed several short films that were shown at festivals internationally.[2][3] Sotomayor was part of Berlinale Talents in 2009.[4]
In 2021, she started working on her third feature Niebla. The movie is produced by Rodrigo Teixeira (RT Features).[13][14][15]
Over the past decade Dominga has also taught film courses and gave talks in Chile and abroad and made videos and photographs for exhibitions, like "Little Sun" (Olafur Eliasson, 2012) at the Tate Modern in London.[16] She was a guest lecturer at
Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies in 2020-23.[17][18] Sotomayor was one of the artists working for the Chilean Pavilion at the Biennale Art exhibition that opened in April 2022.[19]
Since 2015, Sotomayor has been active as a producer. With Omar Zuñiga she co-founded Cinestacion production company, her credits as a producer include
Felipe Galvez's Chilean Western The Settlers, Manuela Martelli's directorial feature debut 1976,[20] and The Last Land by Paraguayan Pablo Lamar.[21][16] She also produced Prison in the Andes (Penal Cordillera) by Felipe Carmona.[22]