Juan Andrade is a screenwriter and director. Graduated from Film and Television in Unitec in Bogotá, Colombia with a Master in Screenwriting for Film and Television from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain.
His writing, focused on highlighting the intelligence of Pastuso humor, is far removed from the comedy paradigms in Colombia. According to him, it moves away because Pasto is very far away.
Among his achievements are: Winner of the Script Lab of the Cali International Film Festival with his comedy feature film “Barista” (2023). Winner III Cali Writer's Room, organized by the Economic Development Secretariat of the Cali Mayor's Office in alliance with the Bibliotec Foundation and the Algo en Común Foundation, where he developed the series “Fall In Loop” (2022). Winner of the RiT - Rooted in Trust award from Internews in the United States with his transmedia documentary “COVID-EO” (2021). Winner of the Black and White Narratives award from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia in the Best Written Chronicle category with “Operación Pupo” (2018).
He is currently in the development stage of these:
Projects:
Barista
Comedy/Drama | 90 min
A stubborn young freighter, led by a wise old storage man, attempts to win the World Barista Championship against an arrogant three-time world champion coffee taster.
Fall In Loop
Comedy/Drama | 8x25
Trapped in a mental loop after discovering her fiancé cheating on her at their very wedding, a gridded engineer plans all possible ways to escape wishing to fall in love again.
HAbitaT
Comedy | 8x30
When her dog goes missing, a neurotic biologist infiltrates an exotic building where she teams up with a failed journalist and a fringe community, to rescue it from the conceited administrator.
El Pipón
Comedy | 90 min
A proud lawyer but frustrated horse breeder is tricked into buying a handicapped "exemplary" with which he has to win a horse race to save his family from bankruptcy.
THE FAREWELL
Dark Comedy | 8x40
Six not quite ripe friends try to unravel a disappearance enigma after a crazy Caribbean bachelor party while they struggle with personal inquiries before settling down.
Substitution
Documentary | 90 min
It explores the conflict of coca growers children who, together with their families, are forced to plant crops for illicit use in the region with the most plantations in Colombia, so as not to die in the war against drugs.
Seven.8 Hz
Experimental | 10 min
Transmedia with overtones of fiction and non-fiction that follows three luthiers and their resistance in the trade to which they have dedicated their lives: the handmade construction of musical instruments, despite the industrial construction that threatens to destroy their heritage.
