Jorge Durán (Writer)
Little is known about Jorge Durán, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Na Fronteira da Imagem
Release Date2023-02-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self - Interviewer
Episode Count13
The Screenwriter
32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.
Release Date2012-01-01
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count1
Ulises
The emotional life story of a Peruvian immigrant in Chile is the subject of this nuanced character study of a man uprooted from home by economic necessity and suffering loneliness and dislocation. Higher wages can’t fill the void created by separation from everything that is important to him.
Release Date2011-04-26
Charactersd Jefe Matadero
Amazônia
Release Date1991-12-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Pixote
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Release Date1980-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count221
Quilombo
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
Release Date1984-06-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count14
Gaijin: A Brazilian Odyssey
Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.
Release Date1980-02-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Broken Idol: The Undoing of Diomedes Díaz
This documentary chronicles Diomedes Díaz's rise as one of Colombia's most iconic singers, and his downfall after being accused of killing a fan.
Release Date2022-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count32
Mi mejor enemigo
After losing their bearings, a group of Chilean soldiers learns some lessons about their enemy's humanity in this dark comedy set during the 1970s war between Chile and Argentina. Digging in where they are, the troop soon discovers a nearby Argentinean platoon. Unsure how to handle the situation, the two groups start passing notes via a stray dog, and eventually achieve a wary camaraderie.
Release Date2005-05-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Consultant
Vote Count21
Last Call
Three apartments in an old converted loft building set the stage for three bizarre love triangles. Nico, enjoys his older brother's top floor loft, while he is away on business. Downstairs, Helena, prepares for a dinner with her lover, who never shows up. In the basement, three expatriates are waiting for a phone call. A Chilean contact is supposed to instruct them to carry out a dirty job.
Release Date1999-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count4
How Angels are Born
Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter.
Release Date1996-08-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
Doida Demais
Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new lover, a pilot.
Release Date1989-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
Teresa
Teresa Wilms Montt is a writer, a rebellious woman, tormented and beautiful. He marries at age 17 challenging family opposition. She falls in love with someone she should not and the family court condemns her to confinement in a convent. Separated from her two daughters, she escapes to Buenos Aires with Vicente Huidobro. From that flight her life becomes an exciting and tragic itinerary.
Release Date2009-06-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Consultant
Vote Count5
Achados e Perdidos
A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute.
Release Date2007-04-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count13
Azul y Blanco
When enemy members of the two main Chilean soccer teams, Azul and Paloma meet in a fight after a soccer game they fall in love at first sight. They run away through the night in the streets of Santiago, while two groups search for them, when they meet, happens the inevitable.
Release Date2004-04-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Consultant
Vote Count7
Romance Policial
Antonio, young Brazilian civil servant, travels to the Atacama Desert in search of inspiration to write a short story.
Release Date2014-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Enough Praying
Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.
Release Date1972-08-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count10
Rei do Rio
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Release Date1985-06-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Who Killed Pixote?
The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.
Release Date1996-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count11
Lucio Flavio
The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.
Release Date1977-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count34
Não Se Pode Viver Sem Amor
Release Date2011-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Urubus e Papagaios
High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The local men get aroused and start looking for young lovers at the local bordello. Their wives even make promises and novenas asking the disappearance of the new couple. One day, the judge dies, leaving his wife unsatisfied. The corpse, as if wanting revenge, keeps an erection on.
Release Date1987-05-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
A Maldição do Sanpaku
Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving in the plot a former colleague, Poeta and his girlfriend Cris, a beautiful woman who brings in the eyes the mark of the tragedy.
Release Date1991-05-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
Forbidden to Forbid
Three young Brazilian try to help a terminally ill woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their youthful idealism is shattered with the cruel reality of police brutality.
Release Date2007-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
Mi último hombre
A female television journalist has a strange affair with a terrorist.
Release Date1996-04-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
O Escolhido de Iemanjá
Release Date1978-06-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Metamorphosis of the Chief of the Political Police
In this film the director's recurring concerns return: the divisions in the Chilean left, and its contradictions between what the director calls the "traditional" and the "revolutionary" left. The problem is exposed through the doubts and obsessions of a strange police chief who cannot establish the limits between critical behavior and militant responsibility.
Release Date1973-11-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count1
The Colour of His Destiny
Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years later, still haunted by the past, he undergoes a crisis when he learns his cousin had been arrested in Santiago, and quarrels with his family when he decides to know his country and the details of his past.
Release Date1987-11-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
The Dream's Not Over
The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s.
Release Date1982-08-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Happier Than Ever
During the military dictatorship, a political militant takes his son out of the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. The son knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot really explain his activities to his son, fearing for his security. So the young man stands alone in the huge apartment, waiting for the infrequent meetings with his father, without really knowing what's going on.
Release Date1984-08-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Voto + Fusil
The political evolution in Chile seeing from three different times: 1937, 1947 and 1970. A film that shows how a revolution cannot be accomplished by electoral means, and how the wealthy class will always attempt to destroy that revolution, with the help of the armed forces, as soon as their privileges are threatened.
Release Date1971-08-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count5
Fica Comigo
Release Date1998-02-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Dog Flesh
Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.
Release Date2013-07-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Consultant
Vote Count4
Underground Game
To find the woman of his life, man makes a game up: he enters a subway train wagon, picks a woman he likes and waits to see whether she's going to take the same course and connections as he. If she is, he tries to make contact.
Release Date2005-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6