Jorge rojo

Mexican filmmaker, writer, and animator.

In 2012, he directed the animated short film "Invisible," which was selected for various international festivals, including Cut Out Fest (Mexico), Baixada Animada (Brazil), Short Shorts Film Festival (Asia), and the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF).

In 2017, he moved to London to pursue an MA in Character Animation at Central Saint Martins. For his graduation project, he wrote and directed the short film "Our Perpetual Now," which received recognition at prestigious international film and animation festivals, such as the London International Animation Festival (Best of the Next Generation), Animafest Zagreb, Dublin Animation Film Festival, Palm Springs, Encounters, and Taichung International Animation Festival. Notably, the film won Best Animated Short at the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and was long-listed for the Academy Awards.

In the professional field, he was part of the art team at Lupus Films for productions by Channel 4 and Universal Pictures, including The Tiger Who Came to Tea (winner of an Emmy in 2022) and Mog’s Christmas (nominated for a BAFTA in 2025). Recently, he collaborated as an animator on the experimental theatre production Goldbug and the Music of Dreams, an international project by DKS Shanghai and the British Council that premiered at the Shanghai Symphony Hall (2024-2025).

He is an Alumnus of the Guadalajara Talents program (2023) and is part of the Berlinale Talents international network. He is currently co-founder of the production company So Far So Good, alongside producer Arran Stamper, where he is leading the development of his first animated feature film.

His animation and video art works have been exhibited in galleries and cinemas across Mexico, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Taiwan, Croatia, Argentina, the United States, Japan, China, South Korea, Germany, and France.

Other interests: science, nature, rock climbing, human rights, economics and learning about social changes. 

PARTICIPANT

2019 – University of Oxford: Organizing Committee for the Symposium on "Art and Latinoamerican culture and its influence in the UK".

2018 – King’s College London: Guest Lecturer on "Challenges of the Cultural Economy in Latin America".