Jose Saborio
Directing
Biography
Jose Antonio Saborio is a Costa Rican American first generation filmmaker who graduated from Montclair State University with a BFA. He loves the visual and audial medium of film where he get to explore himself. It’s a place where he can take his most embarrassing, humiliating, gleeful, and beautiful parts of himself and assemble them into something that seems impossible. Film also allows him to work with the people he loves on every stage and becomes a therapeutic process of expressing his emotions in a collaborative environment.
Known For
The local pastor’s daughter escapes youth group to go to her first high school party.
PK
Death appears to a suicidal mother and tries to convince her that she has more to live for.
With My Fingers
A first-time raver enters an underground club searching for escape, but the night descends into terror.
Noise
When a young college student lies to the girl of his dreams about being able to speak German, he must try and learn the language in one night to avoid revealing the truth.
Total Immersion
A Costa Rican Woman flees her home to stay in New Jersey for her boyfriend, on the condition of taking care of a widower's kids.
El Porton
After a celebrated consultant's fraud allegations collapse under scrutiny, she learns that failure isn't the end, it's the opening move. As corporate power closes in with offers disguised as mercy, she's forced to confront how easily integrity erodes when reputation, money, and control are placed on the table.