Jorge Forero

Jorge Forero is a Colombian film director, producer, and programmer who studied in Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil. In 2021, he founded Marginal Cine to create bold and risky-taking audiovisual projects that explore the richness of audiovisual language, while also encouraging multidisciplinary participation in collective creation processes. "Inside", a collective short film made with six of the most outstanding Latin American filmmakers, was the first project, premiered in the Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival. Also in 2021, he directed and produced his second feature film, "Matryoshka", which will be released in 2023. In 2010, he founded Burning Blue, a production company with which he produced "Land and Shade" by César Acevedo (Camera d'Or - Cannes 2015) and "The Sacrifice" by Jaime Osorio Márquez (Warsaw 2017). He is also an executive producer on Pavan Moondi's "Sundowners" and Associate Producer on Oscar Ruiz Navia's "The Fungi" (Locarno 2014). He co-produced the feature films "Buy Me A Gun" (Cannes 2018) by Julio Hernández Cordón, "Jesus" (San Sebastián 2016) by Fernando Guzzoni, "Refugee" (Cannes 2014) by Diego Lerman, and "Climas" (Cannes 2014) by Enrica Pérez (Warsaw 2014). In 2015, he made his directorial debut with "Violence", which premiered at the Berlinale - Forum and awarded Best Film at the Huelva Film Festival in the Rábida section, among other awards. He was part of the "FICCI - Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival" since 2014, as Head of Programming for the New Creators, Short Films, and PuertoLab- WIP sections. He has been a Programmer of Bogoshorts, Bogota's short film festival, since 2018. Since 2017 is professor at the Universidad Javeriana's Master's Degree in Audiovisual Creation.