La Bonga
2023 Cinéma du Réel · MoMA Doc Fortnight
Documentary · 77 min

La Bonga

On April 5, 2001, two hooded men entered the village of La Bonga and accused the community of sympathizing with the FARC. They were given 48 hours to leave or be expelled by force. The 150 families fled that same day.

 Carropasajero
2024 Visions du Réel · FICCI
Hybrid genre feature · 103 min

Carro-
pasajero

The sound of metal creaks as if about to break. An old flatbed truck adapted to carry passengers crosses the desert of La Guajira in Colombia.

 Kikuyo
In development Premio Simón Bolívar 2024
Documentary short

Kikuyo

Documentary short in development.

 Padre, Tierra
2023 Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar
Documentary podcast series

Padre,
Tierra

Padre, Tierra is an audio interview that crosses the intimate and the collective around land, armed conflict, the peace process, and land restitution in Colombia.

 Gigante
2023–2024 Work in Progress Colombia · FICCI
Hybrid documentary feature · 90 min

Gigante

A rumble wakes Gigante. The great Ceiba de la Libertad has fallen. Many weep and recall the prophecy: when the roots supporting its surface died, Gigante would enter a slow and constant sinking.

 Las Almas ni los Ojos
Post-production FICCI
Hybrid genre feature

Las Almas
ni los Ojos

Pacho, a 58-year-old man, arrives at an old, almost ruined village after having journeyed through the stars for thousands of years. There he is welcomed by faces that have been waiting for him for a long time.

Films, territories and documentary forms.

Jarana is a film production company founded in 2022 by Canela Reyes and Sebastián Pinzón Silva. At Jarana Cine we support projects that explore reality through multiple perspectives, with an aesthetic and political commitment. For us, making films is a form of encounter, reflection, and collective construction.

The word "Jarana" refers to a gathering or a celebration. Jarana Cine is the possibility of relating to the world through images and sounds created from a multiplicity of perspectives. It is the freedom to seek the many layers of meaning that overlap in reality, questioning hierarchical dynamics and favoring the multiplication of individual and collective subjectivities in filmmaking.

Contact
jaranacine@gmail.com
Founded
2022 — Bogotá, Colombia
Founders
Canela Reyes
Sebastián Pinzón Silva
Instagram
@jaranacine

Team

Canela
Reyes

Director, writer and film researcher. Her film La Bonga (2023), co-directed with Sebastián Pinzón, has screened at nearly 40 festivals and won ten awards, including Best First Film at Cinéma du Réel and Best Documentary at Cinélatino Toulouse. She worked as co-screenwriter and researcher on Lapü (Sundance, Berlinale 2019), and as co-writer and assistant director on Carropasajero (Visions du Réel 2024) and Los Sueños Viajan con el Viento (Sheffield Doc Fest 2024). She directed Omí VR (FICCI 2019) and Padre, Tierra, a podcast series winner of the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar 2023. She is co-founder of Jarana Cine and El Cauce — Transmedia Narratives. She studied anthropology and literature at Universidad de los Andes.

Sebastián
Pinzón Silva

Colombian filmmaker focused on documentary. His work as a director has been screened at Locarno, Cinéma du Réel, MoMA Doc Fortnight, SFFILM, RIDM, and New Directors / New Films. His short Palenque won Best Latin American Short at FICValdivia 2017. La Bonga, co-directed with Canela Reyes, received the Loridan-Ivens Award for Best First Film at Cinéma du Réel 2023. He worked as assistant editor on Minding the Gap (Oscar-nominated 2019) and as editor and cinematographer for National Geographic, Honnold Foundation, and the Colombian Truth Commission. Named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2019. He studied film at SCAD and earned a master's degree in documentary media from Northwestern University. He is co-founder of Jarana Cine, SITE Collective, and Video Consortium Colombia.