Orlando Javier Torres is a Puerto Rican director, screenwriter and editor currently based in New York City.

Born and raised back in the island, he got his first break as a multimedia journalist during his undergrad years. Out in the field, he honed his skills as a photographer and editor, learning to be quick on his feet and take creative risks.

Aching to delve into narrative storytelling, his true love, he moved to NYC in 2012 after being admitted to the MFA Film Program in Columbia University. There, he has made several short films and has been humbled to see them screen and recognized by festivals around the world. In addition, his short film La Edwin has been showed for educational purposes throughout the Caribbean for the last year.
 
Currently, he is in preproduction of several projects, including his Columbia thesis film, to be shot in his native Puerto Rico in Winter 2015. He also works as a freelance editor in New York on commercial, industrial, music and narrative projects.

He admires a wide range of artists, among them: Robert Altman, Alexander Payne, PT Anderson, Pedro Almodovar, Roberto Bolaño, Junot Díaz, Paul Auster, Kurt Vonnegut, Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, among many others. Like all these, he thrives to engage and provoke through specificity of thought.

As a filmmaker, he thrives to create humanistic work that carries complexity and depth, and is rich in subtext and theme. He is particularly interested in the concept of perception. The idea that, somewhere inside that gap that stands between our self-delusions and the way we appear to others, something akin to the elusive truth can emerge.