JUANITA ONZAGA
(1991) Colombian born, Brussels-based film director, producer and visual artist.
Her first short film The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do won the Jury Prize for Best short film at the Berlinale 2017 in Generation 14plus, won the VAF Wildcard and many other prizes, while being selected in festivals worldwide like San Sebastian, Busan, Cartagena, etc.
Her second short Our Song To War premiered in 2018 at the Cannes' Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, selected in more than 80 international festivals as Clermont Ferrand, IDFA, FNC, DOKLeipzig, RIDM, Chicago and won multiple prizes.
In her work, Onzaga combines fiction and non-fiction elements, touching the importance of memory, death and imagination, creating poetic tales that reflect different ways of perceiving reality within a strong political context. Building this way, a body of work which explores the crossroads between cinema, poetry, technology, mysticism, dance and visual arts in cinematic projects developed in Colombia, Europe and Mexico.
Currently she is working in several projects: finishing a new short film, writing her first fiction feature film The Landscapes That You Seek, supported by Hubert Bals Bright Future; in pre-production of an immersive VR-experience, and as well as shooting a feature documentary.
More info:
Director, Producer & Visual Artist
juanitaonzaga@gmail.com