Jorge Caballero, born in Bogotá Colombia in July 1979, is a director, producer and researcher working in film, digital media and artificial intelligence. He is the cofounder of the production companies GusanoFilms and Artefacto, based in Barcelona and Bogotá. His films have screened at major festivals including TIFF, the New York Film Festival, SXSW, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, IDFA, DOCNYC, Hot Docs, Visions du Réel, the Malaga Film Festival, the Guadalajara International Film Festival and BAFICI. He has been awarded the National Documentary Prize in Colombia on two occasions.
Caballero holds a PhD in Communication from Pompeu Fabra University with a cum laude distinction for his research on cinema and artificial intelligence. He previously studied telecommunications engineering at UPC, audiovisual communication at UOC and completed a master’s degree in interactive media at the University of Limerick. He teaches in the Communication programme at Pompeu Fabra University, lectures on Digital Authorship at BAU and leads courses on expanded documentary. He is also the director of the Master in Creative AI for Film and Digital Narratives. He has conducted workshops in Spain and Latin America, collaborating with institutions such as the University of Valencia, the National University of Colombia, UNAM, EICTV, DOCSMX, DocumentaMadrid and Ambulante.
His career includes participation in Emerging Producers at Ji.hlava, a fellowship with the Sundance Institute Stories of Change programme and selection for IDFA DocLab Academy and Berlinale Talents. In 2020 Variety named him one of its Producers on the Rise. He has served on committees and juries for IDFA Bertha Fund, IDFA Forum, FICCI, FIDBA and L’Alternativa.
His academic and creative work includes the book La imaginación artificial. La imagen después de la imagen co written with Josep M Català for Cátedra, as well as publications on artificial intelligence, digital media and virtual reality. His immersive and digital projects include the VR series Pathways Colombia commissioned by the United Nations, Crónica de una ciudad que fue which premiered at SXSW, Speech Success developed with Taller Estampa for Haiku ARTE France and NFB Canada, and Las fronteras, an artistic and social impact project supported by Fundación la Caixa.
