Yashira Jordán is a Bolivia

Bolivia

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n director

Film director

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, scriptwriter

Screenwriter

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 and film editor.

Background

Jordán completed her primary and secondary education in Cochabamba, Bolivia. By the time she was eighteen, before leaving Cochabamba, she had already made built up a filmography consisting of a few shorts that participated in National festivals (Festival Iberoamericano in Santa Cruz, Festival of the ‘Alianza Francesa’, and exhibited as a Bolivian director in ‘Women in Cinema’).

Career

In 2004 Jordán spent time in New York

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, Washington DC and Mexico City

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, training in various workshops and courses under the direction of American and Mexican filmmakers. In addition she made some experimental videos and shorts (35mm film format) that participated in international festivals, such as the Washington DC ‘48 hour Film Festival’.
In 2005 she began her degree in audiovisual communication at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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, Argentina

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. In 2007 she was chosen to participate in ‘Talent Campus’, organised by the ‘Universidad del Cine’, exhibiting her work to mark the 9th BAFICI (‘Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival’) In addition, in February 2008 her work was selected from amongst more than 3000 worldwide participants for the Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

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, in the ‘Talent Campus’ category. She attended talks, meetings and workshops with cineastes and cinematographers like Mike Leigh

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, Lucrecia Martel

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, Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders

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, Alejandro Jodorowsky

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, Lisandro Alonso, Felix Monti

Félix Monti

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, Alex McDowell

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 and Andrej Wajda. at the Berlinale Talent Campus.

Movies

Short Films

• “Khaos” (2007)

International Berlinale Film Festival 2008

Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2007

• “Scissors” (2007)

Chosen as Best Short by the UNLP for the KODAK Film School Festival as part of the Cannes festival 2008.

• “Doc 4” (2004) Official selection for Women Film Directors in Bolivia, Cochabamba 2007.

• “The grey train” (2003)

Selected for the Iberoamerican festival in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 2003.

Feature Length Filmography

• “About Jules & Cecile” (2006)
• Las herederas
  Las herederas
  Inheritance is an Argentine and Bolivian film written and directed by Yashira Jordán and Nadia Lozano. The film is executive produced by Paula Asprella from Panorama Coop Ltda and Fernanda Peñarrieta from LONDRA FILMS P&D...
  
   (2012) in pre-production
• Durazno
  Durazno
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  (2012)