About Ana María A.

Ana María is a United States citizen born in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her first job was as a newscast correspondent at Televista and host for the video musical production “La Guía.” Nominated in 2002, upon graduation from Television and Radio Production with a minor in Communications for best final project at Miami Dade College. Worked for Paramount Pictures production film team:"Jackass:The Movie," interned with Emilio Estefan at Crescent Moon Records. Continued her career with MTV Latino © in Miami, started interning for the show “Conexión,” was part of the first Video Music Awards (VMA) Latin America in 2002. Manage the MTV Latino channel in New York, worked at red carpets, press conferences, MTV2 $2 Bill Concert "System of a Down," MTV U Woodie Awards, Hotel MTV in 2005 and VMA´s, along with Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Nelly Furtado, among others. Ana María studied hosting and acting with Patricia Stark, Marki Costello, Barbara Barna and Tony Pichette at Actors Studios. In 2009 mayored in journalism with a minor in investigation at New York University (NYU), with Stephen Sheppard and Simon Surowicz both producers of "60 minutes." Jim Edwards, deputy editor at Business Insider, Tim Mohr from Playboy Magazine and John Crudele from the New York Post and graduated in 2011. She was on television commercials and educational videos in NYC, her articles and photos have been published on: El Heraldo Sunday magazine, El Especial, Cravings Magazine, The New York Post, El Diario La Prensa, Mi Gente TV magazine, Fotógrafas Latinoamericanas, Documenting Men, Cartel Urbano and Documentary Photo. Worked as a (Spanish-English) interpreter, translator and proof-reader for Russian and Slavic Languages and at Nike+ worldwide launching website and app. Ariza has her own blog called "run away with me," where she writes about her travels, people and places she meets along her way. Moved to Bogotá, Colombia in autumn of 2013, where she was the production coordinator of Colombia´s visual artist Juan Manuel Echavarría´s documentary, “RÉQUIEM NN” and worked as a producer for an Israeli docu/reality, "Couch Diaries" for Artza Productions from Tel Aviv. Worked over two years for Colombia´s National Government at Social Prosperity towards overcoming poverty in rural zones with community’s victims of armed conflict and vulnerable population, as Communications Chief Advisor and project coordinator of four two-minutes capsules and a one-hour long documentary with Discovery Channel. Filmed outside Tumaco, in Vichada, Cocorná, Valle de Sibundoy, Sierra Nevada, Montes de María and Guapi, this project was broadcast on Discovery Latin America and the United States. In the winter of 2017, Ana María attended, Conflict Photography Workshop, led by journalist and photographer Gervasio Sánchez, earned her professional and documentary photography certification at Zona Cinco in Bogotá. She worked on projects for RTVC, public television channel and Netflix, as a Spanish-English simultaneous interpreter. Ana María has interviewed Nicolas Cage, Tracy Morgan, Bill Nighty, Zach Galifianakis, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, Mike Newell, Scott Steindorff, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Catalina Sandino, Eddy Herrera, Leonardo Amuedo, Chris Botti, Samuel Torres and Jason Cordero among many others.

About Laura O.

LAURA OTÁLORA, (Bogotá, Colombia 1989) is an award-winning visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. From an early age she wanted to merge social and cultural studies with the visual arts, so she decided to study Anthropology with an emphasis in Art History and Theory at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. After finishing her degree she traveled to Spain to do a Masters in Visual Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. Later he decided to expand his knowledge in the audiovisual area, starting another Master's Degree in Documentary Film at the Barcelona Film School (ECIB). Since then she has worked in the realization of other documentaries in areas such as methodological research, script, production, DOP and post-production. For three years he coordinated the production company CAD ProducUons, where he developed several projects for international organizations such as the UN and the World Bank, covering topics such as Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Food Security in several countries in Africa, America, Europe and Asia. Among these projects, he directed the documentary interacUvo Kijanal, about the food sovereignty of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas and Yucatan in Mexico. He also worked on the documentary series REDD+ in Africa, for the World Bank, on climate change mitigation in several African countries. In parallel she parUcipated as co-founder of the Cook n Roots project, dedicated to the invesUgation of the roots of gastronomy, through Visual Anthropology, filming diverse cultural ways of understanding gastronomy, developing a broad knowledge of the gastronomic cultures of several countries. In 2019 she directed her first feature film Chef's Diaries Scotland, a documentary where the Roca brothers from the presUgious restaurant Celler de Can Roca, invesUgate about traditional products and cuisines from Spain and Scotland. It won the award for best documentary at the Girona International Film FesUval and was selected for various festivals such as the Malaga FesUval, Sea`le InternaUonal Film FesUval and the Edinburgh InternaUonal Film FesUval among many others. It is also available on platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Filmin and Mubi. Since 2019 she returned to Bogota where she works in directing and directing series and documentaries around Colombia. In 2021 the series Dis;l Your World premiered on Amazon Prime Video, in which he did the script and direction of two chapters, this same year he also directed the documentary series Vivas, which will premiere in 2022 on several Colombian TV channels. She is currently directing two feature documentaries: Impermanentes and Capitán. She is also the content director of the workshop Apichatpong Weerasethakul Lab: Filming in the Amazon and is a professor of Documentary Film at the National Film School (ENACC).

About Sofia V.

BA in Communication and Journalism at Universidad Tadeo Lozano, Bogota- Colombia. Worked in press and television; In TV, experience on research and media production (both field and at an executive level). National and international production of TV documentaries and reportage. Work experience in Africa, South America, United States and Europe. Her main interest is in stories with a social, politics, historic and human focus.

About Carlos M.

I'm an iPhone shooter. I worked as head journalist and news anchor for Campus Television in Honduras, during that time I covered the Coup and other national news such as politics, economics, corruption and social issues. I currently give freelance copy editor service to AJ+ Español and VJ.

About Juan Pablo D.

Creative Director at Kingfisher Docs, a film production studio focused on storytelling for social change. MFA in Film Directing from The University of Edinburgh with Distinction. BSc in Journalism from Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. Experience in visual journalism covering issues such as Human Rights, Climate Change, and wider work in the field producing and reporting with rural communities. Work includes projects with BBC Scotland, Virtual Museum of the National Centre for Historical Memory (CNMH), Semana magazine, Rutas del Conflicto/VerdadAbierta.com, Fondo Acción, WWF and Conservation International.

About Manuel R.

Journalist and filmmaker based in Colombia with a decade of experience working for international news channels, magazines and NGOs. Recently I have also shot stories in Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil.

About Andy L.

Reporter freelance / Producer / Filmaker / Photographer / Speaker. I have worked for several companies , television media , advertising agencies , production houses , among others ...

About Mayra B.

Digital media and video journalism expert with over 10 years of accumulated experience innovating with journalists, designers and technologists to advance storytelling on social media and provide exceptional news and information consumption experiences. Experienced voice over.

About Antoine B.

French Video Journalist. Currently based in Bogotá, Colombia. Shoot, edit and interviews. Drone. Work in French, English and Spanish. +33 6 22 17 90 96 / x

About Pedro S.

I am a multimedia journalist, writer and documentary producer. Studied Literature, Philosophy, Creative Writing in the University of Iowa and Journalism in the Columbia Journalism School. Latest examples of my video work can be seen on my webpage. Video is my passion, I live for beautiful stories, it's the salt of my life.

About Andres A.

I am a filmmaker from Colombia. I started my career studying media production in Bogota and photography in Spain. I have worked as a freelancer in both countries and worked on cruise ships for a few years. Traveling all over the world and meeting people from a lot of different countries and cultures has triggered in me a passion for traveling, and a hunger for that broad, global knowledge and empathy that is so needed in todays society. My goal as a filmmaker is not just to communicate a message but more to make people feel, the thinking and doing part comes later.

About Cady V.

I have experience producing documentary films, writing feature articles, and packaging radio & TV pieces. I'm an American based in Bogotá, Colombia, with experience working in English, Spanish and French. In 2015, following dreams of being a full-time storyteller, I moved to India to co-direct a documentary about an orphanage outside the city of Hyderabad. Most recently, I served as the managing editor at Innovations | Stories, an online publication sharing the stories of social innovators all over the Global South. While at Innovations | Stories I designed and spearheaded a multimedia editorial strategy which allowed for more diverse content (a heavier focus on photo and video stories). As managing editor I supported video and photo freelance contributors from all over the world and designed storytelling trainings for social innovators to tell their own stories. I'm originally from Berkeley, California, USA and I earned my B.S. from the University of California, Davis in Community and Regional Development with a minor in Art Studio (focusing on video and photography). From 2010-2015 I directed a global education program called One World Youth Project (OWYP), based in Washington, DC. At OWYP I designed middle school (age 10-14) curriculum and trained university students to teach it around the world in their own communities. The program taught the children cross-cultural communication by empowering them to create and send video, photo, and written messages to their partner classroom abroad - all facilitated by trained university student volunteers. While serving as program director at OWYP I had the privilege of traveling around the world visiting schools and delivering trainings at universities. My work in education and the opportunity to see so much of the world made me realize I wanted to tell stories. Storytelling is the best form of education anyway.

About Rafael Poveda T.

Rafael Poveda TV is a production company based in Bogota, Colombia.

About Richard M.

Richard McColl is a British-born, Colombia-based freelance broadcast and print correspondent, guide and hotelier. After studying modern languages at Exeter University, he pursued an MA in International Journalism in London and later became a Conflict Resolution Specialist at the Universidad Pontificia la Javeriana in Bogotá. He has been based in the Americas for 18 years and for the last twleve years has made Colombia his home, travelling between the capital and his guesthouse La Casa Amarilla in Mompóx. He currently freelances for more than a dozenpublications around the world, routinely files for the BBC World Service and TRT news and is currently studying for a PhD in Bogotá and hosts a weekly podcast called “Colombia Calling”.

About Felipe G.

I am a journalist & documentary director, with many years of experience in audiovisual, commercial and environmental thematic production

About Arthur P.

Biography Arthur Pahl was born in Gladbeck, Germany and grew up in Würzburg, Germany. After an apprenticeship in food and beverage, he completed his training for Hotel and Restaurant management in the Swiss Noble Restaurant trade, worked as a steward on an ocean liner, lived in Canada, Colombia, the USA and Brazil, was alternately a rice farmer, emerald dealer, taxi-driver, gravestone seller and stockbroker before he succeeded to steer back to his homeland of Germany, where he has since been working as a tour manager for international pilgrimage groups. On his journeys with pilgrims from all over the world, people told him of their lives, their fortunes and misfortunes, their worries and their destinies. Some were so unusual, they had to be told. That’s how his first book Heavenly Paths came about. It was published under the German title: Verschlungene Wege in Germany, 2009. Six months later Himmlische Pfade was published. In April 2012 Gefühle brauchen Gefühle, Pahl’s 3rd book was released and immediately translated into Portuguese, under the title:Sentimentos precisam de Sentimentos. In this book the Author tells about an incredible love story. The story of his own kidnapping in Colombia, South America and the separation from his fiancée for more then 30 years. In 1980 Arthur Pahl was kidnapped in Colombia. Partly he was to blame himself, because he got mixed up with the wrong people. The tragedy of this: with the kidnapping he and his fiancée had been separated. They never saw each other again until 30 years later. From this incident Pahl suffered his entire life. Details of the kidnapping he never revealed to anyone. Only writing has helped him, to cope with his trauma. Now, for the first time he can speak about it, because in October 2010, Arthur Pahl received a message on Facebook from his fiancée and the story of a lifelong love comes after 32 year of uncertainty to an end.
Arthur Pahl has published 32 true stories in 3 books. His first book in English, Winding Paths of Life, was published in 2013. It entails 7 of his best stories translated from German to English. At the moment the author has dedicated himself to writing his first Novel. He lives between Frankfurt, Germany and Armenia, Colombia. S.A.

About Esteban G.

Winner of a Suncoast Regional Emmy 2019 in the Feautred News report category. Journalist and audiovisual producer with 5 years of experience in chronicles, and reports of all kinds. In all audiovisual pieces I put the best audiovisual quality for journalistic coverage in all areas. I live in Bogotá, Colombia, the city of stories.

About Hector E.

I am a freelance international reporter, with ten years of experience in written stories, photography, and video reporting. I have covered riots, political, economic and social crises, immigration issues, guerrillas, and elections in some thirty countries. I have six years of experience in Latin America. I have done reports in all the countries of continental America, from the US to Argentina, including Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua and Bolivia, as well as in some Caribbean islands, including Cuba. Previously I worked in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans, for three years. You can see part of my work on this web page: https://hectorestepa.wordpress.com/ This link, especially, for video reports: https://hectorestepa.wordpress.com/videos/ I am a multitasking reporter. I produce my own reports, I do the photographs, the videos for TV, and the written reports. I speak Spanish (native), English and Portuguese.

About DANIEL R.