Juan Paulo Laserna is a screenwriter, director and producer, whose stories utilize magical realism and dark humor to develop contemporary dramas and crime narratives related to immigration. His award-winning feature film, Las Malas Lenguas, premiered at the LA Film Festival and had a theatrical release in Colombia and on STARZ in the US. He graduated with honors from Columbia University, where he was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award and the KOB Mentorship Grant. He most recently worked alongside the lead director on the Netflix adaptation for One Hundred Years of Solitude.