J.D. Fernández Molero

Directing

J.D. Fernández Molero

Born 1987-07-22 · Lima, Peru

J.D. Fernández Molero (1987, Peru) is a film director, producer, editor, and programmer. His films, which include the documentary Reminiscencias (2010), the fiction feature Videofilia (2015), and the hybrid film Punku (2025), have been screened at festivals such as Berlinale, Rotterdam, FIDMarseille, New Horizons, Mar del Plata, BAFICI, Cartagena, FICValdivia, La Habana, Singapore, Flaherty NYC, and presented in spaces like MoMA and MoMI in New York, Casa Encendida and Tabakalera in Spain, and the Mexican Cinematheque. He has won many awards, like the Tiger Award at Rotterdam, Grand Prix at Split, and Best Iberoamerican Cinematography in Cartagena, in addition to being the Peruvian candidate for the 89th Academy Awards with Videofilia and a recipient of grants from Hubert Bals Fund, Visions sud est, and DAFO.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Punku poster
10.0

Iván is found unconscious with an injured eye in the jungle. As Meshia reunites him and his family, she is drawn into a foreboding journey. A disturbing look at Peru’s cultural contradictions shot on a coarse mix of analogue and digital formats.

Punku

2025

Punku poster
10.0

Iván is found unconscious with an injured eye in the jungle. As Meshia reunites him and his family, she is drawn into a foreboding journey. A disturbing look at Peru’s cultural contradictions shot on a coarse mix of analogue and digital formats.

Punku

2025

Punku poster
10.0

Iván is found unconscious with an injured eye in the jungle. As Meshia reunites him and his family, she is drawn into a foreboding journey. A disturbing look at Peru’s cultural contradictions shot on a coarse mix of analogue and digital formats.

Punku

2025

No artwork available
NR

Time interval for relaxation between filmmaking obligations.

Re:creo

No artwork available
NR

‘El obedecedario’ (The Obedient One), made by young Peruvian filmmaker Juan Daniel F. Molero, is a short film donated to promote the second edition of the Lima Independiente Film Festival, held from 16 to 24 June 2012.

The Obedient One

2012

The abducted poster
NR

The micro-world of an isolated Amazonian native community is altered by the visit of an outsider with a camera and mysterious intentions.

The abducted

2011

Still Sun poster
NR

A shipwrecked man wanders between sea and land searching for that which left him empty and adrift.

Still Sun

2015

Cuarto Oscuro poster
NR

Luchín, who has autism, and his sister Andrea, who also has mental health issues, are left at home in the care of their uncle Jimmy. Luchín witnesses certain events, but his only means of communication with the outside world is the camera he always carries with him.

Cuarto Oscuro

2005

Reminiscences poster
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Juan Daniel's memory doesn't belong to him anymore. After an amnesiac accident at the beginning of 2009, he started watching home-videos and having reminiscent dreams in the need of reconstructing his memory and identity. Months later, he found himself with too many celluloid, analog and digital memories, three generations' eyes captured by different formats. This is the neurological experience Juan Daniel suffered.

Reminiscences

2010

Reminiscences poster
NR

Juan Daniel's memory doesn't belong to him anymore. After an amnesiac accident at the beginning of 2009, he started watching home-videos and having reminiscent dreams in the need of reconstructing his memory and identity. Months later, he found himself with too many celluloid, analog and digital memories, three generations' eyes captured by different formats. This is the neurological experience Juan Daniel suffered.

Reminiscences

2010

re_making poster
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No synopsis available yet.

re_making

2016

No artwork available
NR

Documentary

Yo_mutando

2016

Una polilla viajó al sol poster
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Two students at a desk, at night: he is in love, and she is... sleeping.

Una polilla viajó al sol

2008

David Oct. '99 poster
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Today is October 31st, and David has to dress up to go trick-or-treating, but Halloween isn't celebrated in his neighborhood. He rides his little bicycle away from home in search of the holiday's spirit.

David Oct. '99

2009

Image Not Found poster
NR

A ghostly presence wanders through familiar images that are revealed as simulations of an experience that used to be human.

Image Not Found

2013

Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) poster
3.4

Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world. Cinema meets digital psychedelia.

Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)

2015

Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) poster
3.4

Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world. Cinema meets digital psychedelia.

Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)

2015

Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) poster
3.4

Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world. Cinema meets digital psychedelia.

Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)

2015

No artwork available
NR

Documentary where Juan Daniel Fernández and Miruna Vasilescu talk with Harmony Korine about what cinema means to him.

Harmony Korine Portrait

2009