Canela Reyes
- Writer
- Director
- Editor
With a background in anthropology and literature, Canela Reyes has worked as a director, screenwriter, and researcher on films and community development projects around Colombia. "La Bonga" (True/False, Cinéma Du Réel, 2023) is her first feature film as a director. She worked as a co-writer, researcher, and co-producer on the films Lapü (Sundance, Berlinale 2019), and "Carropasajero" (World Cinema Fund, FDC). The projects she has worked on have also been exhibited at festivals such as CPH:DOX, DocsBarcelona, FICCI, Thessaloniki, SFFILM, Cinélatino, Documenta Madrid, DOKer Russia, and MoMA Doc Fortnight. She is co-founder of the production companies Jarana Cine and El Cauce, and of Video Consortium Colombia, a global network of support and connection between filmmakers. She co-directed Omí VR, a virtual reality experience around afro-colombian santería, and she took part in the Afro Religious Systems Group for a period of three years. She worked as a documentary filmmaker in the Gaia Amazonas Foundation. She is developing her next films as a director, "Gigante" (FDC) and "Las almas ni los ojos" (FDC), and working as a consultant, writer and co-producer on hybrid genre films that reflect on imagination, conflict, death, and memory.