Jorge Thielen Armand (born 1990, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a film director, screenwriter and producer.
He studied communications at Concordia University in Montreal, and later, with Rodrigo Michelangeli, founded the Canadian-Venezuelan film production company La Faena Films.
[14] His second feature film, La Fortaleza (English: Fortitude), premiered in the Tiger Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam[15] and has been screened in international film festivals, including Busan, Cairo, Guadalajara, Gijon, amongst others.
[16][17] In 2021, Armand received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship,[18] becoming the first Venezuelan filmmaker to obtain this recognition.
[19] In 2022, Armand participated at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency with a new project entitled La Muerte No Tiene Dueño.