
Juan Soto Taborda
Editing
Biography
Juan Soto Taborda is a film editor and filmmaker. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Documentary Filmmaking from the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in Cuba.
Known For

A talented African-American surgeon enters into a torrid relationship with a wealthy entrepreneur.
Kinky

Lalo is a sex influencer: he posts photos of his naked body and homemade porn videos for his thousands of social media followers. Lalo directs his own life, but in private, when out of character, he seems to live in constant melancholy.
Pornomelancholia

After the death of her husband, a grieving elderly woman is enlisted by a coterie of gossipy elderly women in her neighborhood to plan and create custom funerals – offering seniors a chance to plan in advance how they want their funerals to be presented, and how they want their lives to be celebrated.
Perfume de gardenias

A father attempts to reconnect with his estranged son through social media, a new world for him.
Rajma Chawal

"Nowhere" is a drama about Adrian and Sebastian, a Colombia couple living together in New York City. When Sebastian is faced with immigration complications, Adrian must learn to overcome his fear of rejection from his family back in Colombia in order to save his relationship with Sebastian.
Nowhere

Cuba, summer of 1994. In the midst of período especial, one of the greatest crises in the country’s history, thousands of Cuban rafters try to reach the United States illegally, never sure if they’ll make it out alive. With holidays starting, Carlos plunges into a carefree August, wandering around with his friends and falling in love for the first time. Little does he know about the country’s uncertain future, and in this hot summer, the world of Carlos will turn upside down.
August

A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
El Father Plays Himself

The filmmaker visits the house of his ancestors with the invocation of family photographs and the voice of his parents. A journey into memory through everyday objects and spaces which seem to remain untouched by the passage of time.
Stained-Glass Windows

Martha Wollner, legendary casting director, roams the streets in search of an actor to play the role of a criminal. Through the random encounters that Martha undertakes with passers-by found in the New York district of Queens, the film reveals the growing intimacy between strangers with extreme finesse.
Intimate Distances

The open house is an imaginary reconstruction. A timeless narrative with protagonists from different times. The house as a theater of memory. Time encapsulated in a house. Multiple layers shot one on top of the other on 16mm film open the doors of the family memory. A journey through death, mourning and birth as a reflection on presences and absences. An attempt to bring the family together once again.
The Open House

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The Girl in the Lemon Factory
Journey between Colombia and Uruguay, a country where the director arrives following the ghost of his uncle "Caliche", exiled in Montevideo, and as the bearer of a family video letter.
19° sur 65° oeste

This existential comedy tells the story of Anna, a chronically ill woman, who is visited by Doreen, a door to door proselytizer who slowly overstays her welcome. Together, they walk in the park, bake a cake and watch an Ingmar Bergman film.
Awake
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Too Late for the Cinema

When Ivan Simonovis becomes the first and most famous political prisoner in Venezuela, a 15-year period of imprisonment leaves devastating effects on his and his family’s lives. Living in exile as a filmmaker, his son Ivan Andrés crafts a very personal and moving story, using over 25 years of unique family material, showing history from an angle never seen before. A family that had to overcome extreme hardship, a father that has to find his place in life again and a son that faces his traumas by inviting the viewer into the core of a wound that touched both his family and his entire country.
My Father’s Prison

Spanish popular copla songs and their mighty female singers are the focus of this evocative film.
I Die of Sadness Crying for You

A spontaneous conversation allows for the structure of a possible film. When joining those words with 16 mm footage and rolls of old photographs, the images start to burn and their ignition fosters questions about what memories are, how they are archived and preserved, and which of them vanish without a trace. According to Didi-Huberman, to look at an image one has to be able to distinguish where it is burning.
Revelations
The documentary consists of 10 self-portrait stories elaborated by participants of the Matria Project. Matria has been a space of transformation and empowerment for women in Puerto Rico.
Las caras de Matria

"Negra? Don't call me that," Maryuri retorts, on the day she dances, bleeds, and might risk her life and run away, or ease the world's misery in the arms of her lover, a fisherman from Cartagena.
Atarraya
Wilson left his parents' home in Medellin on his way to Bogotá but never reached his destination. 30 years later and after the signing of the peace agreement with the FARC, Wilson tries to return from his exile in London to find his family who believes him dead. The trajectory of the plane draws a parable, but "Parable of the Return" is also a poem by Porphyrio Barba Jacob, who once recited his brother by heart.