JARANA CINE
Jarana is a film production company founded in 2022 by Canela Reyes and Sebastián Pinzón Silva. It is the production house behind the feature documentary "La Bonga" (Cinéma Du Réel, 2023) and "Gigante" (FDC development and production), and co-producer of the feature films "Carropasajero" (Visions Du Réel, 2024) and "Las Almas ni los Ojos" (FDC), a project by Los Niños Films. Jarana is also the producer of "Padre, Tierra", a podcast series that won the 2023 National Journalism Award. Projects from Jarana Cine have been showcased at festivals such as Cinéma Du Réel, Cinélatino Toulouse, SFFILM, MoMA Doc Fortnight, FICCI, RIDM Montreal, and DMZ Docs, among others. Their work has also been supported by institutions including Sundance Institute, Visions Sud Est, Catapult Film Fund, and Proimágenes Colombia.
The word "Jarana" refers to a gathering or celebration. For us, Jarana Cine is about engaging with the world through images and sounds shaped by a multiplicity of perspectives. It is the freedom to explore the many overlapping layers of meaning in reality through aesthetic inquiry—challenging hierarchical and centralized dynamics, and encouraging the flourishing of both individual and collective subjectivities in cinematic creation.
CANELA REYES
Canela Reyes has worked as a director, writer, researcher, and film juror in Colombia. Her film "La Bonga" (2023), co-directed with Sebastián Pinzón, has screened at nearly 40 festivals and received ten awards, including Best First Feature at Cinéma Du Réel in Paris and Best Documentary at Cinélatino Toulouse. Canela was co-writer, co-producer, and lead researcher on "Lapü" (Sundance, Berlinale 2019), and co-writer and assistant director on both "Carropasajero" (Visions Du Réel 2024) and "Los Sueños Viajan con el Viento" (Sheffield Doc Fest 2024). Her work has also been presented at CPH:DOX, Documenta Madrid, FICCI, DMZ Docs, Montréal RIDM, SFFILM, and MoMA Doc Fortnight. She is co-founder of both Jarana Cine and El Cauce – Narrativas Transmedia. Canela has served as a short film juror at the Cinemancia Film Festival and the Mambe Film Festival. She directed "Omí VR" (FICCI 2019), a virtual reality experience, and "Padre, Tierra", a podcast series that won the 2023 Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award. Canela has also worked as a documentarian with the Gaia Amazonas Foundation and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Colombia. She studied Anthropology and Literature at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá.
SEBASTIÁN PINZÓN SILVA
Sebastián Pinzón Silva is a Colombian filmmaker focused on the documentary form. His work as a director has been screened at festivals such as Locarno, Cinéma du Réel, MoMA Doc Fortnight, SFFILM, RIDM, and New Directors/New Films. His short film "Palenque" won Best Latin American Short Film at FICValdivia in 2017. His feature "La Bonga", co-directed with Canela Reyes, received the Loridan-Ivens Award for Best First Film at Cinéma Du Réel in 2023 and Best Documentary at Cinélatino in Toulouse. Sebastián worked as an assistant editor on "Minding the Gap" (Oscar nominee, 2019), and has since worked as an editor and cinematographer for productions by National Geographic, the Honnold Foundation, and Colombia’s Truth Commission. In 2019, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. He studied Film and Television at the Savannah College of Art and Design and earned a Master’s in Documentary Media from Northwestern University in Chicago. He is co-founder of Jarana Cine, SITE Collective, and Video Consortium Colombia.
