Javier Badillo

Background

About Javier Badillo

Leo-nominated film director / producer / writer. Winner of the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award, 2019. Recording musician. Owner, POST PRODUCTION ENMANUEL (non fiction/family drama, 90 min, dir. Ty Snaden. En Español) PRE PRODUCTION LUPE Q AND THE GALACTIC EARWORMS (Sci fi, Comedy, Music. 90 min)*Telefilm / CreativeBC / Shaw Rocketfund COMPLETED FILMS ROADS OF ITHRIYAH (Drama, 75 min, Leo Award for best sound 2022) THE COVER-UP (comedy, 80 min)- producer AFTERPARTY (drama, 90 min)- producer SHORTS BABA (drama)- producer, cowriter COCO BLUE (drama)- director FATAL RHAPSODY (dark comedy)- director TWO OF CUPS (fantasy horror)- director LEGALLY SPEAKING (comedy)- director RINK RATS (comedy, pilot)- director FAITH & CONVICTION (dark comedy)- director AFTERNOON AT GUDRUN (comedy)- director THE GROW SHOW (comedy)- director SCARS (crime thriller)- director HENCHIN (comedy)- director SWORDS DONT RUN OUT OF BULLETS (comedy, anim)- director THE CATCH (comedy, anim)- director DEVELOPMENT - THE LANTERN (90min)- Drama written by Nat Marshik and Javier Badillo. BIPOC Trans male lead character, family and immigrant themes-PUNK NOIR (90min)- Urban Crime / Drama written by Mickey Bukowski. Female lead. CHINATOWN meets SUBURBIA(1983). Story edited by Jon Povill (TOTAL RECALL)-DANCING DEVILS (90min), Period (1950s) fantasy horror set in Venezuela. BIPOC child lead, Spanish/English. ASSOCIATIONS Canadian Media Producers Association Academy of Canadian Film and Television President of the Venezuelan-Canadian Society of BC Programming Director for the Vancouver Short Film Festival (2012-2020) Regional Director for Raindance Vancouver (2011-2013) Moderator for the Institute for International Film Financing (IIFF)(2010-2012) MUSIC (recording artist) CARACAS -(caracastheband.bandcamp.com) LYME -(lymetheband.bandcamp.com) WARLESS -(warless.bandcamp.com/) KOLA COLLECTIVE