Ela Troyano

Bio- und Filmographie

Ela Troyano is an award winning Cuban-born filmmaker and Producer of a one-hour documentary "La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul", on the legendary Latin singer for broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2007. Her half-hour ITVS short, Carmelita Tropicana won the coveted Teddy Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival as well as the Audience and Critics award at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Her debut feature film, Latin Boys Go To Hell, distributed by Strand Releasing remains a cult hit on the web and was recently shown on Showtime cable. Both films received theatrical screenings in the US and screened at national and international festivals in Europe, Australia and Japan.

Troyano has also directed episodic action television on the drama series Reyes y Rey and the comedy?Angeles, produced by Stu Segall for Telemundo/Sony and the documentary Urban Youth in the 21st Century for Canal Plus in Spain. Troyano brings to independent filmmaking her experience as a theater director, most recently Off Broadway in the critically acclaimed A to B by Ricardo Bracho at INTAR and video art installations, most recently with renowned composer John Zorn and the Tiffany Mills Company at the Guggenheim Museum, the Walker Arts Center, the Joyce theater. Selected award include a Rockefeller Fellowship, a screenwriting workshop at Sundance with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and funding from Creative Capital, Jerome Foundation, Ford Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, Independent Television Service and New York State Council on the Arts.