Jorge Diaz de Bedoya

Jorge Diaz de Bedoya is a Canadian-Paraguayan film director, screenwriter, composer, and producer best known for his dark comedy feature film Filthy Luck (2014), which earned him the Best Director award at the Madrid International Film Festival in 2015. Jorge moved with his family to Paris, France, when he was three years old. He lived most of his childhood between France and Canada, where he completed his filmmaking studies at the Université Laval, in Quebec City (2006). His love for art started at a very young age, being influenced by his mother who was a classically trained pianist. At seventeen, he became the singer, song writer and bassist of Les Minstrels or The Minstrels, a Canadian indie mod band formed in 1986 in Quebec City. The band relocated to Vancouver in the early 90s and finally moved to San Francisco in the mid 90s. He appeared in the music documentary feature Dig! (2004), winner of the jury's award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. On September 10th 2001, he deci