His short documentaries THE THREE SWALLOWS (2016) and SONALI (2017) both premiered at Visions du Réel in Nyon. With the short fiction film THE TALE OF ANTONIA (2016) he won a Tiger Award at IFFR 2017.
JORGE CADENA DIRECTOR
TIFF FILMMAKER LAB
Born 1985 in Colombia and based in Geneva, Jorge Cadena studied photography in Buenos Aires. He graduated in 2018 with a Master in Film from the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève).
Jorge Cadena will participate at the TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2020, a talent development programme that will take place online during the Toronto International Film Festival. Selected directors receive an exceptional professional development experience and an introduction to the global community of filmmaking. FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION) IN DEVELOPMENT 2020 TROPICAL MALAISE Fiction, 90 min. RELEASED 2018 THE JARARIJU SISTERS Fiction, 21 min. 2017 SONALI Expanded Cinema, 8 min. 2016 THE TALE OF ANTONIA Fiction, 30 min. 2016 THE THREE SWALLOWS Documentary, 17 min.
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For his latest film, THE JARARIJU SISTERS (2018), Jorge Cadena received a special mention, both in 2019, at Kyiv IFF Molodist and Berlinale (Generation 14plus). He was a participant in the EFP programme Future Frames 2019 in Karlovy Vary. He is currently working on his first feature-length film TROPICAL MALAISE, a Swiss-Columbian coproduction with Geneva-based Golden EggProduction
