JON SANHUEZA
WRITER.PRODUCER.DIRECTOR
Jon Sanhueza is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker with an affection for genre films that exemplify characters who live in the moral grey area. With over ten years' working knowledge in the technical side of digital media and distribution, he's helped companies such as Ascent Media, Sony DADC and Deluxe Entertainment dominate the worldwide digital distribution market.
He began his career in the arts as a theater actor, with roles such as Hank in Marvin's Room and King Philip II in The Lion in Winter. Eventually fell into writing after penning his segment of the 2006 ensemble production, The Art of Being, which he also performed for audiences in Hollywood, Austin, San Antonio and Chicago. That same year he wrote, produced and directed his first film, a ten minute short dealing with teen suicide. He would go on to write and direct his first feature film, Delicate Playthings, in 2009. A dark and twisted romantic thriller starring Miles Anderson and Katharine Emmer.
His latest directorial effort, the twenty minute revenge thriller, The Long Walk, is making its way on the festival circuit.
AWARDS
2019 Final Draft Big Break
Quarterfinalist
Hostile Creatures
2019 Stage 32 5th Annual Feature Screenplay Contest
Semifinalist
Hostile Creatures
2019 Austin Film Festival
Second Rounder
Hostile Creatures
2019 Scriptapalooza
Semifinalist
Hostile Creatures
2019 Page International
Quarterfinalist
Hostile Creatures
2018 Final Draft Big Break
Quarterfinalist
Mass Exodus
2018 Blow-Up Arthouse Film Fest
Official Selection
Engagement
2018 Orb Media Group
Quarterfinalist
Mass Exodus
2017 Final Draft Big Break
Quarterfinalist
Falling Stars
2017 Oaxaca Film Festival
Official Selection
Guilt
2016 Blackbird Film Fest
Official Selection & nominated for Best Narrative Short
Our Parents Lied
2016 Cape Fear Independent Film Festival
Official Selection
Our Parents Lied
2016 Miami Independent Film Festival
Official Selection
Our Parents Lied
2016 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards
Official Selection
Our Parents Lied
2016 Scriptapalooza
Quarterfinalist
Onna-bugeisha
2015 Austin Film Festival
Second Rounder
Guilt
2015 Final Draft Big Break
Semifinalist
Guilt
2015 Page International
Quarterfinalist
Guilt
2014 Page International
Semifinalist
Pilot
2008 Page International
Semifinalist
Geoffrey