Margarita Jimeno

Margarita Jimeno, a Colombian/American, Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Her  first narrative feature film, GRIND RESET SHINE, won the US Work in Progress Grand Jury Award at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival. Jimeno made her directorial debut with the feature music documentary, GOGOL BORDELLO NON-STOP, which won several awards during its festival run, including the Sound and Vision Award at CPH:DOX. Both films are distributed by Kino-Lorber for North America and in VOD internationally.


In addition, under her helm the documentary series WORKING IN THE THEATRE was nominated for several daytime Emmy awards, and won numerous awards including Telly, and Webby Awards.


Currently Jimeno is developing a feature fantasy film, and a documentary on acclaimed Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger.

Format: Unscripted Features, Scripted Feature

Genre: Art, Comedy, Documentary, Environmental, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi, Other, Politics

Location: New York, United States, Germany, France

Sound and Vision - CPH:DOX- 2008

Grand Jury Award- US Work in Progress - The Champs-Élysées Film Festival, 2016

Bronze and silver for Online – Series - Telly Awards -2019 & 2018

Daytime Emmy® Nomination -Outstanding Directing & series 2019

Vimeo Staff pick selection for the episode Clowning 2017