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Colombian film director, producer and screenwriter with more than 10 years of experience. His stories have largely focused on contemporary dramas with a magical twist, dark comedies and crime narratives related to immigration. 


He attained his BFA with Honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he also won awards for best directing, editing, and film for his feature film “Las Malas Lenguas.” He attained his M.F.A. with Honors from the Film Program at Columbia University, with a concentration in TV Writing and Film Directing. 


Juan Paulo is recipient of the SVA Rhodes Family Award and of NALIP's Emerging Content Creators Scholarship. He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Competition Award for Wuasikamas, his story on the indigenous rehabilitation of the land during the war in Colombia, as well as the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Mentorship and Development Prize for his thesis short film, “Not My Name”. 


Juan Paulo is a fellow of the Film Independent Screenwriter's Lab 2024 and recently completed working as the Director’s Assistant on the Netflix series “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. He is currently developing his own narrative work including the feature film version of “Not My Name", as well as working as Head of Development for Alex Garcia Lopez's Amalobo Productions.