Juan Paulo Laserna Arias
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Juan Paulo Laserna is a Colombian screenwriter, director and producer. He grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, after which he moved to Beijing, China, to pursue Mandarin Studies at Beijing Language and Culture University.
He majored in film directing at the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduated with honors, winning several awards, including best editing, directing and best film for his first feature length project, Las Malas Lenguas.
The film would premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival and go on to have a theatrical release in Colombia and on STARZ in the US. His stories utilize magical realism and dark humor to develop contemporary dramas and crime narratives related to immigration.
Juan Paulo graduated with honors from the film program at Columbia University. He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award for his story on the indigenous rehabilitation of the land during the war in Colombia, as well as the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Mentorship Grant for his coming of age film, Not My Name.
He is a recipient of the NALIP's Emerging Content Creators Scholarship as well as the SVA Rhodes Family Award - for Outstanding Achievement in Film/Video.
Most recently he worked alongside director Alex Garcia Lopez in the upcoming Netflix series for One Hundred Years of Solitude.
He majored in film directing at the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduated with honors, winning several awards, including best editing, directing and best film for his first feature length project, Las Malas Lenguas.
The film would premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival and go on to have a theatrical release in Colombia and on STARZ in the US. His stories utilize magical realism and dark humor to develop contemporary dramas and crime narratives related to immigration.
Juan Paulo graduated with honors from the film program at Columbia University. He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award for his story on the indigenous rehabilitation of the land during the war in Colombia, as well as the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Mentorship Grant for his coming of age film, Not My Name.
He is a recipient of the NALIP's Emerging Content Creators Scholarship as well as the SVA Rhodes Family Award - for Outstanding Achievement in Film/Video.
Most recently he worked alongside director Alex Garcia Lopez in the upcoming Netflix series for One Hundred Years of Solitude.