Jordi Torrent - Crew

Jordi Torrent is a film writer-producer-director based in New York City. He studied philosophy in Barcelona and film aesthetics in Paris before moving to New York in 1984. He was media curator at EXIT ART (1985-90) and founded the media production company Duende Pictures in 1989. Several of the films that he has produced and line-produced have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (“The Keeper”, “The Golden Boat”, “My Life without Me” among them) before gaining international attention. “East on the Compass”, his first feature film as writer-director was selected by the Lincoln Center Film Society for the program 100 years of Catalan filmmaking. His second feature, “The Redemption of the Fish,” was nominated for Best Director at the Milano International Film Festival.