Producer with experience on documentary filmmaking and narrative films with a social impact angle.
About
JUAN E. YEPES is a Colombian Film Producer, Production Coordinator, and Post-Supervisor. Juan’s most recent feature production, the documentary IGUALADA which tells the story of Vice President Francia Marquez, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His work has been celebrated with the Audience Award at DocNYC and Cine las Americas, the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival, and recognition at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale.
Throughout his career, Juan has collaborated with industry leaders such as Participant Media, Univision, PBS, CNN, Canal Plus, Firelight Films, Meadowlark Media, the Equal Justice Initiative, the Mellon Foundation, the City of New York, and the United Nations. Juan’s work has been funded by the Sundance Institute, Luminate Foundation, Perspective Fund, Open Society Foundations, and the Ford Foundation and his work has been exhibited at DOC NYC, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Seattle, New Orleans, Austin, Miami, Cartagena, É Tudo Verdade (Brazil), Ambulante (Mexico), and Tenemos Que Ver (Uruguay), with theatrical releases across the US and Latin America.
Juan has a strong background in project development, project management, and post-production supervision, working on all project stages from development, budgeting/scheduling, and field production to the film’s final release. As an independent producer, Juan focuses on documentary filmmaking and feature films with a social impact angle, having produced work in the US, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico.
Juan is one of the funding members of Human Pictures, a boutique production company that focuses on creating justice-oriented documentaries and narrative films.
