Iván Gaona

Iván Gaona

Birth : , Güepsa, Santander, Colombia

History

Known for the feature film Pariente [Guilty Men], premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, and for his work in his hometown.

Profile

Iván Gaona

Movies

Golden Girls
Writer
They graduated from a boarding school in 1968. 50 years passed very quickly. Amelia and her classmates meet today at their old school to celebrate their past times at the boarding school, knowing that this may be the last time they see each other alive.
Golden Girls
Director
They graduated from a boarding school in 1968. 50 years passed very quickly. Amelia and her classmates meet today at their old school to celebrate their past times at the boarding school, knowing that this may be the last time they see each other alive.
Bailando
Executive Producer
The candidates Sandro Archila and Camilo Hernández, face each other to define who will be the next delegate in charge of the election, classification and programming of dance numbers of the local faire. After the public vote and after the private counting of the votes in the local primary school, the delegate of the vote together with the two candidates accompanied by their campaign teams, confirm that the result of the vote is a draw. With no time for another voting process they will have to find another way to elect the delegate.
Bailando
Writer
The candidates Sandro Archila and Camilo Hernández, face each other to define who will be the next delegate in charge of the election, classification and programming of dance numbers of the local faire. After the public vote and after the private counting of the votes in the local primary school, the delegate of the vote together with the two candidates accompanied by their campaign teams, confirm that the result of the vote is a draw. With no time for another voting process they will have to find another way to elect the delegate.
Bailando
Director
The candidates Sandro Archila and Camilo Hernández, face each other to define who will be the next delegate in charge of the election, classification and programming of dance numbers of the local faire. After the public vote and after the private counting of the votes in the local primary school, the delegate of the vote together with the two candidates accompanied by their campaign teams, confirm that the result of the vote is a draw. With no time for another voting process they will have to find another way to elect the delegate.
Shorts From the South
Editor
Grandmother Verónica and her husband Pastor, without money, live in the rural area of ​​the municipality of Güepsa, Santander. Her tragedies are minimal, but traversed by the history of violence in Colombia, while around her, her neighbors struggle to stay alive in the daily routine of the countryside.
Shorts From the South
Producer
Grandmother Verónica and her husband Pastor, without money, live in the rural area of ​​the municipality of Güepsa, Santander. Her tragedies are minimal, but traversed by the history of violence in Colombia, while around her, her neighbors struggle to stay alive in the daily routine of the countryside.
Shorts From the South
Writer
Grandmother Verónica and her husband Pastor, without money, live in the rural area of ​​the municipality of Güepsa, Santander. Her tragedies are minimal, but traversed by the history of violence in Colombia, while around her, her neighbors struggle to stay alive in the daily routine of the countryside.
Shorts From the South
Director
Grandmother Verónica and her husband Pastor, without money, live in the rural area of ​​the municipality of Güepsa, Santander. Her tragedies are minimal, but traversed by the history of violence in Colombia, while around her, her neighbors struggle to stay alive in the daily routine of the countryside.
Zapatillas
Executive Producer
Harold, Daniela, a couple bicycles, and a pair of shoes.
En La Carretera
First Assistant Director
Although she's not completely convinced, Sandra plans to leave. Héctor, who wants to get close to her again, walks with her for a lonely road carring her bags until the bus stop to wait for a ride.
Divinas Melodias
Assistant Director
Pacho and Genaro are two farmers of African descent that live on the banks of the Guapi River, they are great musicians from the 'marimba' ( balafon) tradition. One day, Pacho has to build a new instrument, for the burial rites of a little kid. The building of it turns into a mystical experience that is going to change his life forever.
Return
Executive Producer
Vercelio came to the funeral of his mama's neighbor. His mother is going to be alone in the countryside but Vercelio needs to go back to his work in the big city, not knowing that maybe there's a life for him in the country side where he grew up.
Return
Writer
Vercelio came to the funeral of his mama's neighbor. His mother is going to be alone in the countryside but Vercelio needs to go back to his work in the big city, not knowing that maybe there's a life for him in the country side where he grew up.
Return
Director
Vercelio came to the funeral of his mama's neighbor. His mother is going to be alone in the countryside but Vercelio needs to go back to his work in the big city, not knowing that maybe there's a life for him in the country side where he grew up.
Forastero
Executive Producer
Leonidas used to have a restaurant with his wife before she left him a long time ago. While playing pool -his only hobby-, a police officer asks him to receive and serve a meal to an outsider. Several deaths in neighboring towns will very soon alert Leonidas about the visitor.
Forastero
Director
Leonidas used to have a restaurant with his wife before she left him a long time ago. While playing pool -his only hobby-, a police officer asks him to receive and serve a meal to an outsider. Several deaths in neighboring towns will very soon alert Leonidas about the visitor.
Forastero
Writer
Leonidas used to have a restaurant with his wife before she left him a long time ago. While playing pool -his only hobby-, a police officer asks him to receive and serve a meal to an outsider. Several deaths in neighboring towns will very soon alert Leonidas about the visitor.
Guilty Men
Executive Producer
Willington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to René, Willington's cousin. While Willington is trying to get her back, a demobilization process concerning an illegal armed group is underway in the region, and new killings, besides rumors of a thief at large, will endanger Mariana's new family.
Guilty Men
Director
Willington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to René, Willington's cousin. While Willington is trying to get her back, a demobilization process concerning an illegal armed group is underway in the region, and new killings, besides rumors of a thief at large, will endanger Mariana's new family.
Guilty Men
Writer
Willington's only love, Mariana, is about to get married to René, Willington's cousin. While Willington is trying to get her back, a demobilization process concerning an illegal armed group is underway in the region, and new killings, besides rumors of a thief at large, will endanger Mariana's new family.
The Funnel
Assistant Director
A story of forgiveness and redemption, about a son who must forgive his father while being forgiven by his mother.
Naranjas
Director
For Rosa, a peasant woman rooted in rural life, learning to drive a car at 55 years old is somewhat complex, but now it is hard to start but where to go.
Completo
Executive Producer
Tired of his employee giving free milk to the girl he likes, Lizardo offers Completo a reward so he can ask her out on a date.
Completo
Writer
Tired of his employee giving free milk to the girl he likes, Lizardo offers Completo a reward so he can ask her out on a date.
Completo
Director
Tired of his employee giving free milk to the girl he likes, Lizardo offers Completo a reward so he can ask her out on a date.
Roa
Second Assistant Director
Roa is a fictionalized account, based on real facts, about Juan Roa Sierra, the supposed killer of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, Colombian politician and lawyer, dissident candidate of the Liberal Party for the 1950 Presidential elections, which he had a very high probability of winning.
El Tiple
Editor
Pastor's wife Veronica has become ill in bed, so he decides to sell his musical instrument secretly in order to buy the medicines she needs. After he sells it, Pastor arrives at home heartbroken, but he finds his wife in a better health condition. Veronica asks Pastor to play her a song with the instrument, so he will do what it takes to get it back.
El Tiple
Music
Pastor's wife Veronica has become ill in bed, so he decides to sell his musical instrument secretly in order to buy the medicines she needs. After he sells it, Pastor arrives at home heartbroken, but he finds his wife in a better health condition. Veronica asks Pastor to play her a song with the instrument, so he will do what it takes to get it back.
El Tiple
Writer
Pastor's wife Veronica has become ill in bed, so he decides to sell his musical instrument secretly in order to buy the medicines she needs. After he sells it, Pastor arrives at home heartbroken, but he finds his wife in a better health condition. Veronica asks Pastor to play her a song with the instrument, so he will do what it takes to get it back.
El Tiple
Director
Pastor's wife Veronica has become ill in bed, so he decides to sell his musical instrument secretly in order to buy the medicines she needs. After he sells it, Pastor arrives at home heartbroken, but he finds his wife in a better health condition. Veronica asks Pastor to play her a song with the instrument, so he will do what it takes to get it back.
La playa DC
Assistant Director
Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled the country's Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces the difficulties of growing up in a city if exclusion and racism. When Jairo, his younger brother and closest friend disappears, Tomas plunges in the streets of the city. His search becomes an initiatory journey that compels him to face his past and to leave aside the influence of his is brothers in order to find his own identity. Through this journey, Tomas reveals a unique perspective of a vibrant and unstable city that, like Tomas, stands on the threshold between what once was and what might be.
Portraits
Executive Producer
It's Sunday, the day to shoo at the local market and Grandma Paulina wants to prepare creole hen to her husband, but the money is not enough. Without wishing it, she wins a Polaroid camera in a raffle, so, she proposes her husband to take pictures of their lives in the country. But the camera roll ends up and the hunger persists!
Portraits
Writer
It's Sunday, the day to shoo at the local market and Grandma Paulina wants to prepare creole hen to her husband, but the money is not enough. Without wishing it, she wins a Polaroid camera in a raffle, so, she proposes her husband to take pictures of their lives in the country. But the camera roll ends up and the hunger persists!
Portraits
Director
It's Sunday, the day to shoo at the local market and Grandma Paulina wants to prepare creole hen to her husband, but the money is not enough. Without wishing it, she wins a Polaroid camera in a raffle, so, she proposes her husband to take pictures of their lives in the country. But the camera roll ends up and the hunger persists!
Lecciones para un beso
Second Assistant Director
A young boy falls in love with a stunning girl, who simply ignores him. But, three men with different strategies in the art of love (romance, lies and money), come to the rescue to try to lead the young boy to his dream: a kiss on the lips.
The Wind Journeys
Second Assistant Director
After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.
A la Carga Lunga!
Producer
Luis Alberto Gaitán "Lunga" was a photographer from Guateque, Boyacá. He is the author of the most iconic pictures of the Colombian political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, assassinated in 1948, giving birth to one of the cruellest waves of violence in the country. Since ever, Lunga's photographs have been reproduced over and over again without the proper credits. This film is a trip to the 40's and 50's Colombia's decades and it wants to give to Lunga the recognition of his work and his name in the history of Colombia as a photographer.
Gladiolos
Producer
Waldina, the flowers seller of the little town of Arcabuco, has died. Her son Humberto arrives from the big city and decides to make the last delivery of flowers to her clients without knowing that in one of that doors could find his happiness.