Juan Sebastián Sarmiento Bazzani

Directing

Juan Sebastián Sarmiento Bazzani

Born

2024-02-13 (2)

Place of birth

Bogotá, Colombia

Known for

Directing

Credits

5 titles

Juan Sebastián is a Colombian film director and producer. Notable among his projects as a director are: "5´45´", a short film winner of the India Catalina award at the FICCI 2010; the short film "Mistery land", an official selection of the Colombian Film Festival NY; and the fantastic short film "La fábrica de octopus", an official selection of the FICCI 2013. He also served as associate producer for the film "Señoritas", an official selection of the FICCI and TIFF in 2013; producer of the fiction feature film "Antofagasta, New York", premiered at FicGibara 2018; and the documentary feature film "Hermanas". He won the award for animated short film production to create the documentary animati…

Known for

Hermanas poster
NR

An intimate documentary that reveals the daily life, life and love of Colombian women. Without men around, this film tells the life stories of four sisters during their vacations on a family farm. A feminist film full of humor where the mother and aunts are the central axis of the work. A work that reveals independent and modern women, women of dignity, integrity and true to themselves.

Hermanas

2021

Octopus' Factory poster
NR

Downtown Bogotá is filled with passages, myths, and secrets that its citizens don't want to unveil. Rodrigo goes after a pickpocket only to discover a portal to a labyrinth.

Octopus' Factory

2013

Peephole poster
NR

On a lonely alley Simon, an office worker, finds Miguel a bald man who is standing with his eyes closed and in a catatonic state. This bald man has a small hole in the middle of his head through which Simon can see his own past and also his future. Simon keeps peeking and Miguel his host, gets younger and younger until he disappears, then the peephole is transferred from Miguel’s to Simon’s head. Twenty years have passed and Simon has managed to hide his peephole from everyone, but one day his wife Carla discovers his secret and asks him to let her peek once through the peephole.

Peephole

2020

A Quarter to 4 poster
5.0

Darío (54) has been working for 30 years as a taxi driver in Bogotá. Day by day, he faces the dangers in the streets amidst funny stories he tells his passengers. The journey he most remembers happened on a cold morning in 1999 when a mysterious doctor asked him to take her to the San José hospital.

A Quarter to 4

2022

Behind the camera

Hermanas poster
NR

An intimate documentary that reveals the daily life, life and love of Colombian women. Without men around, this film tells the life stories of four sisters during their vacations on a family farm. A feminist film full of humor where the mother and aunts are the central axis of the work. A work that reveals independent and modern women, women of dignity, integrity and true to themselves.

Hermanas

2021

Octopus' Factory poster
NR

Downtown Bogotá is filled with passages, myths, and secrets that its citizens don't want to unveil. Rodrigo goes after a pickpocket only to discover a portal to a labyrinth.

Octopus' Factory

2013

Octopus' Factory poster
NR

Downtown Bogotá is filled with passages, myths, and secrets that its citizens don't want to unveil. Rodrigo goes after a pickpocket only to discover a portal to a labyrinth.

Octopus' Factory

2013

Peephole poster
NR

On a lonely alley Simon, an office worker, finds Miguel a bald man who is standing with his eyes closed and in a catatonic state. This bald man has a small hole in the middle of his head through which Simon can see his own past and also his future. Simon keeps peeking and Miguel his host, gets younger and younger until he disappears, then the peephole is transferred from Miguel’s to Simon’s head. Twenty years have passed and Simon has managed to hide his peephole from everyone, but one day his wife Carla discovers his secret and asks him to let her peek once through the peephole.

Peephole

2020

A Quarter to 4 poster
5.0

Darío (54) has been working for 30 years as a taxi driver in Bogotá. Day by day, he faces the dangers in the streets amidst funny stories he tells his passengers. The journey he most remembers happened on a cold morning in 1999 when a mysterious doctor asked him to take her to the San José hospital.

A Quarter to 4

2022