Jordi Torrent
Directing
Biography
Jordi Torrent is a film writer-producer-director based in New York City. He studied philosophy in Barcelona and film aesthetics in Paris before moving to New York in 1984. He was media curator at EXIT ART (1985-90) and founded the media production company Duende Pictures in 1989. Several of the films that he has produced and line-produced have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (“The Keeper”, “The Golden Boat”, “My Life without Me” among them) before gaining international attention. “East on the Compass”, his first feature film as writer-director was selected by the Lincoln Center Film Society for the program 100 years of Catalan filmmaking. His second feature, “The Redemption of the Fish,” was nominated for Best Director at the Milano International Film Festival.
Known For
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
My Life Without Me
The concern of a group of people to avoid the sale of the Barcelona pension where they live is altered by the appearance of Dabashree, an Indian woman, and her 8-year-old son. The mysterious mission that Dabashree takes to Barcelona will awaken the curiosity of the inhabitants of the inn until an unexpected event will cause the woman to reveal her secret.
L’est de la brúixola
A young man from Barcelona (Marc) arrives to Venice and confronts his father (Paco), who has not seen since he was two years old. This sudden encounter with his forgotten son both shocks and pleases Paco. Marc, filled with long repressed resentments, discovers in Paco a welcoming individual. The emotions seem to move towards a feeling of connection and understanding between father and son. But Paco's semi-lies, his complex and opaque past, his unclear present, quickly transforms the encounter into a muddy pool of emotional uncertaintie.
La redempció dels peixos
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, to fight for the civil rights that were denied to them in their home country.
Invisible Heroes
In the early 2000s filmmaker Raul Ruiz followed painter Jean Miotte to different locations (New York, France, Germany).
Miotte by Ruiz
Alvin, just out of prison, is searching for a second chance in life. His family is of support but it also impels him to reconnect with a past that might disrupt his hopes for redemption.