Jorge Silva

Directing

Jorge Silva

Born 1941-12-02 · Tolima, Colombia

Jorge Silva was a Colombian director and cinematographer, known for Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future (1982), Peasants (1975) and The Brickmakers (1972). He died in 1988 while working on the documentary Love, Women and Flowers (1988) with his wife and filmmaking partner Marta Rodríguez.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Campesinos poster
6.8

Colombian documentary that exposes the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early '70s.

Campesinos

1975

The Brickmakers poster
6.5

This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.

The Brickmakers

1972

Love, Women and Flowers poster
10.0

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

Love, Women and Flowers

1988

Love, Women and Flowers poster
10.0

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

Love, Women and Flowers

1988

Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide poster
6.7

A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous community formed a cooperative to defend their rights from settlers and colonists, but the government organized a military operation to protect the latter and foreign companies.

Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide

1971

Days of Paper poster
NR

Jorge Silva fictionalizes childhood memories marked by loneliness and exclusion, through the meeting of two boys from different social backgrounds.

Days of Paper

1964

Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future poster
6.9

The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.

Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future

1982

Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future poster
6.9

The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.

Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future

1982