ABOUT — VICTOR RIDAURA

BIO

Victor Ridaura is a writer/director born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He is currently based out of Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California’s Peter Stark Producing Program.

As a director, Victor uses his passion for subjective storytelling, color theory, and cinematography, to create work that is a heightened reflection of how characters experience their lives. His character-driven films live in a world of memories and perspective, incorporating elements from characters' inner lives into his detailed costuming, vivid production design, and purposeful editing. He casts with an eye for talent that effortlessly embodies the characters and can bring their own unique point of view into their performance, elevating what’s on the page, and capable of living in the subjective realities he creates.

Victor has directed numerous commercials, music videos, and short films, with his latest, THE UGLIEST, being nominated in 2022’s New Filmmakers LA yearly awards—an event presented by the Academy of Motion Pictures—for Best New Media & Experimental short. He was selected as a finalist in 2022 and semifinalist in 2024 for Commercial Director Diversity Program (CDDP), a program created by the AICP and DGA to increase representation of minority directors in commercials, and was selected to take part in CDDP’s 50/50 Honorable Mentorship Program. He was a finalist in the prestigious Sundance Collab’s Cultural Impact Residency Honoring the Legacy of Social Justice Leader Michael Latt. He is a fellow of the Ryan Murphy Television Half Initiative program, where he shadowed director Loni Peristere, on the 100th episode of AMERICAN HORROR STORY. And has also shadowed director Stella Meghie on two episodes of BET+'s show THE FIRST WIVES CLUB.

Victor’s short narrative work has been featured in numerous Academy Award- and BAFTA-qualifying festivals including LEEDS, FLICKERS Rhode Island, LALIFF, the NYLatino FF presented by HBO, and NFMLA InFocus: Latinx & Hispanic Cinema short festival. His work has also been featured in numerous publications including Pop Sugar, The Cult, Bloody Disgusting, and MovieMaker magazine.

As a writer, Victor uses and subverts genre conventions to tell heightened stories found at the crossroads of the immigrant and minority experience. These suspenseful stories aim to give voice to his community, exploring their inner lives and offering a wider variety of representation to what Latino filmmakers and characters can be in film. His love of subjective storytelling also influences his very visual and personal writing style. His stories are influenced by being raised in a conservative and autocratic country, and having arrived to this one as an immigrant and minority. His tense genre scripts offer personal commentary on racial inequality, government overreach, climate change, and the consequences that lay in front of us if we change nothing.

Victor’s scripts have made him a two-time Slamdance award winner, semifinalist for Lena Waithe’s Rising Voices Season 2 and 3, a semifinalist on 2022’s Spotlight El Dorado competition presented by McDonalds, as well as countless other recognitions for his particular brand of suspenseful storytelling.