Jorge Molina

Who is Jorge Molina?

Jorge Molina Enríquez is a Cuban actor and film director. After studying cinema in the USSR, he graduated from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television, known as EICTV. His thesis film, Molina's Culpa was a controversial tale with anti-Catholic content. As an actor, Molina has appeared in close to 80 films, most notably in Cuban filmmaker Fernando Perez's films Madagascar, La vida es silbar and Madrigal. He recently he played one of the leading characters in the international hit Juan de los Muertos. His own works are always irreverent and provocative low budget productions, featuring plenty of sexual activity and violence. American film scholar Ruth Goldberg's essay on Molina's work appears in the anthology "Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe", edited by Steven Jay Schneider.

In 2008 Jorge Molina won funds from CINERGIA. The jury granted Molina with $10.000 for producing his shortfilm Molina's Ferrozz, based on Charles Perraul's fairytale "Little Red Riding Hood".