Juanita Onzaga

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Juanita Onzaga

Juanita Onzaga is a Colombian-Belgian film director and cinematographer, playing with hybrid forms between the fiction, the documentary, and the experimental. Within her narrations, she touches the importance of memory, death, and imagination, creating tales that reflect different ways of perceiving reality within strong political contexts. We wander in dreams, jungles, and cities surrounded by spirits. This way, marrying a sense of emptiness in realism, in an intimate way, with a quest for mysticism, where the invisible gives more answers and meanings than the physical world. Her short film “The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do”/ “La jungla te conoce mejor que tu mismo” won the International Jury prize for Best Short film Generation 14plus”, at Berlin International Film Festival, in 2017, the highly acclaimed prize of Flanders’ Audiovisual Fund “VAF [Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds] Wildcard”, and other prizes, while being selected worldwide in festivals as those in San Sebastian, Sao Paulo, Reykjavik, Vilnius, and Cartagena. She studied cinema in Brussels, obtaining a Bachelor in Direction of Photography, at the Institute of Media Arts/ “IAD” – “Institut des artes de diffusion”, and a Masters in Film Direction, at “LUCA” School of Arts/ “Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel”. She worked as a director and DoP for several short films, documentaries and video clips. Now, she is developing her first feature film, “The Landscapes That You Seek”, at Torino Script Lab.