Guillermo de la Rosa (Directing)

Guillermo de la Rosa is an award-winning Venezuelan writer-director based in Toronto, Canada. His work has been supported by the Toronto, Ontario, and Canada Arts Councils. A York University graduate with a BFA in Film Production, his directorial work has screened in North America, South America, and Europe, including A Noise That Carries (Toronto After Dark, PANIC Fest, Renegade Film Festival), Light for Freedom (JAYU Human Rights Film Festival, Buddhist Film Festival Europe), and The Crocodile and the Capybara (distributed by Bell Media). Most recently, his horror short Re: Julia premiered on Deformed Lunchbox. He is also the author of Su Grito en el Viento, a blog where he adapts real- life encounters with ghosts and apparitions into short stories. He co-wrote The Shadow of the Sun, Venezuela’s entry for the 96th Academy Awards. Guillermo’s films draw from Venezuelan folklore, where the mundane and the otherworldly intertwine. Blending naturalism with magical realism, he...Read More