Andrés I. Estrada

Writer & Director

Andrés I. Estrada is a Venezuelan-Canadian filmmaker and a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. He moved to Canada in 2014, where he earned a BFA in Film Production with a minor in Film Studies. Known for blending reality with fiction through a magical realism approach, he’s also a passionate melomaniac who enjoys crafting conceptual music videos that expand the visual world of the artists he works with.

His first short documentary, Audio y el Caimán, won Best Short Documentary at the Miami Film Festival and the Venezuelan Film Festival. It also received the Audience Award and an Honorable Mention at Festival Regard, the Jury and Audience award at Plein Écrans, and an Honorable Mention at the International Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg. The film has screened at major festivals including Hot Docs, Sheffield DocFest, and others.

He is currently in pre-production for his debut feature film, El Padrote, supported by Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch program. In parallel, he is developing a new short backed by Antigravity Academy and Dolby—the latter producers of Didi, winner of the 2024 Sundance Audience Award.