Lorena Villanueva is a Colombian director and producer based in Los Angeles with over a decade of experience in the film and tv industry. She completed her Master’s in Film Direction at Bande à Part Film School in Spain and she directed her first short, FUOCO FATUO in Italy. Back in Colombia she directed two more short films INÉS (ColFilmNY ‘21) and BED SMASH (Festival SantaFe de Antioquia Best Short Film ‘24, FICNOR ‘24). Lorena produced the feature film COROZO, which premiered at the ChiLatino Film Festival ´24 and won the Audience Award at the ColFilmNY Festival ‘24. Currently, she is starting the festival circuit of THE TIDE INSIDE, short film exploring the psychological weight of deportations in Los Angeles, and developing her feature debut GAIRA, a love story about searching for forgiveness in the aftermath of Colombia’s internal conflict. She is the producer of the feature film TEOREMA, selected for the NALIP Accelerator ‘25, and is a member of the Colombian Academy of Motion Pictures.