Born May 24, 1979 in Quito, Ecuador, Jose Ignacio Correa is an award winning Ecuadorian film director, screenwriter and photographer with international educational and professional experience in France, Canada, the United States and Ecuador.

 

Earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Directing and Screenwriting in EICAR (Paris, France, 2010), his short films have screened in numerous film festivals around the world, including: The Ecuador Gay and Lesbian Film Festival "El Lugar Sin Limites" (Quito, Ecuador, 2011), Pink Apple Film Festival (Zurich, Switzerland, 2012), Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada, 2012), Libercine Argentina Queer Film Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013), Q Film festival (Long Beach, California, U.S.A. 2014), earning numerous awards such as: Best Ecuadorian short film, at the Ecuador Gay and Lesbian Film Festival "El Lugar Sin Limites" (Quito, Ecuador, 2011), and the Hot Short ́s OUT TV Audience award for best short film, at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada, 2012).

 

In 2013, upon returning to South America, Jose embarked himself into photography, as a parallel visual expression to film making. While writing two feature length screenplays, he not only enrolled at the Centro De La Imagen CIAF photo center in Quito, but has worked with established local construction companies and architectural firms, photographing buildings in construction and terminated projects for architectural catalogues. In portraiture, his works have been showcased in a number of exhibitions across the city of Quito.

 

In November 2014, He was invited to be the head jury in the documentary selection of the 2014 Ecuador International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival "El Lugar Sin Limites”.

 

In the summer of 2015, Jose attended an intensive six week program at the UCLA Film-Theatre-Television school in Los Angeles, California, for an intensive six week program in digital cinematography.

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In November 2016 he was commissioned as the set photographer of the production of Viviana Cordero's feature fiction film "Solo es una mas" or "It's only one more" in Quito, Ecuador. 

 

Presently, he divides his time between photography and the continuation of the writing of his two feature length screenplays He is fluent in English, Spanish and French . 

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For his photographic work Jose uses a Canon 60D system and a variety of lenses that include Canon EF lenses such as the EF 70/200 mm F.2.8, 50 mm F 1.8, Macro 100 mm F2.8 and a EFs 18/135 mm F4 lens.