Rubén Mendoza

Directing

01-01-1980

He/Him

Rubén Mendoza was born in 1980. Director and screenwriter of eight short films, as well as editor of the latest films by renowned filmmaker Luis Ospina. His debut feature La sociedad del semáforo, won more than 15 international awards including, in its development stage, the Carolina Foundation Screenwriting Grant, the Screenwriting Stimulus from the Colombian Film Development Fund (FDC), a grant to attend the TYPA Foundation's screenwriting lab in Colón, Argentina, the Amiens Festival Award for Project Development and the Ibermedia Program's Stimulus for Project Development.

Popular Movies/Shows

Wandering Girl

Teenager Ángela meets her three adult step-sisters for the first time when their father dies. Fearing that Ángela will end up in state custody, the sisters embark on a 900-mile journey across Colombia to leave the young girl with an aunt she doesn't even know. During this journey, Ángela will discover what it means to be a woman.

Invisible River

Editorial Consultant

On a journey through the interior of the earth, we learn about the life and dreams of a swiss explorer who searches for caves and underground rivers in a sector marked by violence and armed conflict in Colombia. This underground labyrinth is a metaphor about a dark past, buried deep within the soul, where old war wounds heal with the infinite passage of time.

A Paper Tiger

The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is both incomplete and contradictory. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view.

La sociedad del semáforo

By applying all his knowledge in electricity and electronics, Raúl Tréllez, a bum who lives in the downtown streets of Bogotá, struggles to control the time of a red light so that jugglers, cripples and other homeless people can achieve longer shows in the red light corner.

The Fence

Sound Design Assistant

Francisco Maldonado is sadly involved in a series of dreams that have tormented him, in which generally he, wielding multiple weapons (the machete, the shotgun, his own mother) attacks his father, with whom he has lost intense contact since the death of his mother. This December 31, the old man, Don Juan Cristo, his father, with whom he also adjoins his farm, appears again at his door, so that the...

Dust on the Tongue

A grandfather, in the final stage of his existence, asks two of his grandchildren to kill him because he wants to die by the hand of someone who bears his own blood. However, the young children discover a truth that will make them take the opposite decision.

Top Rated Movies/Shows

Wandering Girl

Teenager Ángela meets her three adult step-sisters for the first time when their father dies. Fearing that Ángela will end up in state custody, the sisters embark on a 900-mile journey across Colombia to leave the young girl with an aunt she doesn't even know. During this journey, Ángela will discover what it means to be a woman.

A Paper Tiger

The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is both incomplete and contradictory. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view.

Dust on the Tongue

A grandfather, in the final stage of his existence, asks two of his grandchildren to kill him because he wants to die by the hand of someone who bears his own blood. However, the young children discover a truth that will make them take the opposite decision.

La sociedad del semáforo

By applying all his knowledge in electricity and electronics, Raúl Tréllez, a bum who lives in the downtown streets of Bogotá, struggles to control the time of a red light so that jugglers, cripples and other homeless people can achieve longer shows in the red light corner.

Movies (Production)

Editorial Consultant

Invisible River

Editorial Consultant

Cita con la trocha

Miss María, Skirting the Mountain

Director of Photography

The shadowless valley

Memories of a Vagabond

Director of Photography

Dust on the Tongue

La sociedad del semáforo

Sound Design Assistant

De(s)amparo, polifonía familiar

Movies (Acting)