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Orlando J. Torres

Orlando J. Torres

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Biography

Orlando is a Puerto Rican director, writer and editor based in Brooklyn. In 2011, he was a co-recipient of the Raul Julia Scholarship by the Puerto Rico Film Commission to study an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing at Columbia University. His shorts have been awarded in Croatia, England, Israel and Spain. Among these, The Least Worst Man was acquired and distributed by HBO in 2018. His most recent short film, The Department of All Things Lost & Found, premiered at the New York Short Film Festival in 2022. He is currently developing his first feature film as writer/director, Un lugar de agua, which was workshopped in the prestigious CineQuaNon screenwriting lab in Mexico.

Known For

Cielo
9.0

Santa, an eight-year-old girl from the desolate Bolivian Altiplano, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother from a life of misery into paradise. The two of them made a pact: when her mother passes, the girl would follow the stars and carry her body across the desert toward heaven, a place they are certain is physically real. Crossing the wilderness, Santa encounters a group of female wrestlers that help her on her way. Also, a gruff policeman who arrests Santa but soon suspects she has magical powers. He decides that to achieve his own salvation he must join Santa on her quest beyond the horizon.

Cielo

2025
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16 years-old Inés takes a ride with Seba, Lucía, and Marcos and learns that in order to gain perspective, innocence must be lost.

Revolt

2013
The Department of All Things Lost & Found
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Wei tries to retrieve her wireless earphones lost on the airplane. To her surprise, the Department of All Things Lost and Found miraculously recovers them. But it doesn’t stop there. As her temporary cat sitting turns into months of jobless, aimless limbo, she keeps receiving lost items from the department, and each one seems to bring back a piece of forgotten memory.

The Department of All Things Lost & Found

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On the day of his best friend’s wedding, Richard, a cynical and detached 30 year-old man, must come to terms, once and for all, with an event from his past that has left him broken and unable to move on.

The Least Worst Man

2016
La Edwin
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Based on the short story by renowned Puerto Rican author Luis Negron, La Edwin tells the story of Johnny, a happy-go-lucky, colorful gay man, who seems to spends his days from gossip to gossip. On this particular afternoon, he recounts through a phone conversation the heartbreak story of Edwin, a mutual friend.

La Edwin

2012