Ecuatorian filmmaker. Born in Quito, he spent his adolescence in Paris, France, and studied screenwriting in Los Angeles, at University of Southern California (USC). His first opera, Rats, mice, thugs (Ecuador, 1999) opened in Venice and became a social and cultural landmark in Ecuador. Chronicles (Mexico-Ecuador, 2004) premiered in Cannes and received numerous international awards. Rabia (Spain-Colombia, 2009) won the Special Jury Prize in Tokyo and four awards in Malaga, including best film. Pescador (Ecuador-Colombia, 2011) marked a shift towards more creative freedom and improvisation, unlike the scientific and documentary stiffness of Europa Report (US, 2013), an English-speaking science fiction movie. In 2016, he premiered Sin muertos no hay carnaval (Ecuador-Mexico-Germany), a coral portrait of the city of Guayaquil, which was selected for the Oscars in 2017. He has been several times an advisor at the Sundance Institute in the US and at Bertha Navarro's laboratories in Mexico. Cordero founded the Script Laboratory for Andean countries in Cuenca and Ecuador. He is in theater with Rabia and made his first documentary feature film, Rosa.
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
