Jorge Diaz de Bedoya

Jorge Diaz de Bedoya is a Canadian-Paraguayan film director, screenwriter, composer, and producer best known for his dark comedy feature film Filthy Luck (2014), which earned him the Best Director award at the Madrid International Film Festival in 2015. Jorge moved with his family to Paris, France, when he was three years old. He lived most of his childhood between France and Canada, where he completed his filmmaking studies at the Université Laval, in Quebec City (2006). His love for art started at a very young age, being influenced by his mother who was a classically trained pianist. At seventeen, he became the singer, song writer and bassist of Les Minstrels or The Minstrels, a Canadian indie mod band formed in 1986 in Quebec City. The band relocated to Vancouver in the early 90s and finally moved to San Francisco in the mid 90s. He appeared in the music documentary feature Dig! (2004), winner of the jury's award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. On September 10th 2001, he decided to leave his musical career in United States behind and moved to Tahiti with his then wife, Sophie Guenan. In Tahiti, he directed sound and audio post-production for the film "Faré", an experimental movie directed by J.D. Peterson, produced for the San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and featured in the 2001 Surf Culture museum exhibition. His first documentary film Hiro (2008) was also filmed in French Polynesia, and won the RFO (Reseau France Outre Mer) award for Best Direction in 2009. Hiro (2008) was official selection at the International Film Festival Oceanien (FIFO), in Papeete, Tahiti, the Terres En Veus Indigenous Film Festival, in Montreal, Canada, and the RFO Award for Best Production at the Des Films Des Peuples Festival in New Caledonia (2008). Between 2005 and 2009, he completed an internship at ARTV Canada, working in production, assisting and co-directing on the program "Mange Ta Ville", which was awarded several Gemini awards by the Canadian Film and Television Academy, for Best Cultural Program. In 2010, he completed his second documentary, "Ahima'a", which was distributed and broadcasted by the France Television World Network in 2011. In 2013, he produced, wrote, directed and composed for his first feature film Filthy Luck (2014), which was the third most watched film in Paraguay's film history and the seventh most watched in Paraguay in 2014. Filthy Luck (2014) also earned him the Best Director award at the Madrid International Film Festival in 2015. In 2019, he co-produced, wrote, directed and composed for his second feature film El Supremo Manuscrito (2019), nominated for Best Sound Direction and Best Montage at the Premios Platino of Iberoamerica, and official selection at the Chicago Latino Film Festival (2020). He also co-produced and composed for the Argentinian television series Mata Salvaje (2019).