Juan Felipe Zuleta: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS, Representation, and Creating Through Adversity

06/26/23 • 30 min

Jared Milrad sits down with filmmaker Juan Felipe Zuleta about his award-winning feature film directorial debut, UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS, which tells the stories of Peter, a jaded gay man with dwarfism, and his neighbor, Winona, a bubbly and imaginative sex worker, who form an unexpected friendship as they embark on a spontaneous, out of this world, road-trip to reunite with the missing parts of themselves. Juan opens up about his journey from Medellín, Colombia to Los Angeles and NYC, the importance of representation in Hollywood, and his passion for telling stories about outsiders.

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