BIOGRAPHIE
Juanita Onzaga (1991) is a Colombian-Belgian film director and cinematographer combining fiction, documentary and experimental elements in her films. Within her narrations she touches the importance of memory, death and imagination, creating tales that reflect different ways of perceiving reality within a strong political context. Juanitaʼs latest short film OUR SONG TO WAR premiered in 2018 at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, her short film THE JUNGLE KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN YOU DO won the Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Berlinale in the section Generation 14plus. She is currently writing her first fiction feature film THE LANDSCAPES THAT YOU SEEK supported by Hubert Bals Bright Future, in production of an immersive VR-experience, as well as shooting a feature docufiction. TOMORROW IS A WATER PALACE is the first of a series of works she is developing connecting Europe and Latin America within a transcultural exploration of mysticism and futurism.
FILMOGRAPHIE
- 2021 Tomorrow Is a Water Palace Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Script, Editing, Camera, Script, Editing, Camera
- 2018 Our Song to War L Director, Production, Script, Editing, Camera, Script, Editing, Camera
- 2017 Common Ground Camera, Camera
- 2016 Ce qui échappe Camera, Camera
- 2016 The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do Director, Production, Sales, Script, Cast / With, Editing, Camera, Voice, Script, Cast / With, Editing, Camera, Voice