About René M.

Renee Martinez is a film and television producer, publicist, graduated in photography. Lover of new technologies, founder of Brodajú Producciones. Dad of Juan Manuel, cinephile, in search of the hidden beauty. His audiovisual productions "El Regreso" (Director) and "Neverson" (Photography Director) have won awards at various festivals in Venezuela, his country of origin. Currently covers Latin America documenting stories about indigenous communities.

About Melissa S.

I am a Colombian audiovisual director and creator. Since 2008 I have been working in an audiovisual field with content on the arts, culture and communities. I am always ready to take on new challenges with commitment and quality.

About Roberto L.

Editor, cinematographer, content producer, with extensive experience in camera, video editing and sound editing.

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 Silvia L.

Born in Bogotá - Colombia, in 1979, Silvia Lorenzini is an Italian-Colombian Film Director and Producer. At the end of 2016, she completed her first feature film, My Way or the Highway an intimate documentary that revolves around a motorcycle trip with her father across South America. As a freelancer, she works on brand videos, fashion videos, and documentaries. She lives between Santa Marta and Bogotá - Colombia, after spending 15 years studying and working in Europe (Genoa, Madrid, London, and Barcelona). Silvia studied filmmaking at the School of Cinema of Genova SDAC, Italy (1999–2001) and graduated in film direction at the School of Arts and Performances TAI of Madrid, Spain (2001–2005). Based in London in the mid 2000’s, she produced music videos and visuals for DJ sets for Aurélien Rivière aka Doubting Thomas, Clorinde, Pablo Tarno, Juanpablo of Frigio Records, among others. Attracted to collage making, she dug into digital art and set up her first exhibition in East London in 2008. Later on, she worked in Barcelona as an Executive Producer for The Cannonball, an advertisement house company. There, she produced several commercial ads for brands such as: Timotei, Seguros Mapfre, La Caixa, Ikea, Seat, Nokia, and Movistar. In 2009, she directed The Bullet Studio, an alternative space for creating new audiovisual proposals for the advertisement world through the art and documentaries. Produced campaigns served firms such as: LG, MTV, Generalitat de Catalunya, and Sony. She has directed fashion films and videos for web contents and developed several of them using animation techniques. Some of her clients included Penguin Random House, Converse, Idartes, Lina Hernández Joyas, and Electromecanismos, among others. Her video art Tropical X was screened at the International Film Festival of the Environment (FIFE) in Paris, in 2012, and at the Neukölln 48 Hours Festival in Berlin in the same year. The Amphibian Topolino was presented in festivals such as Dogville, Neukölln 48 Hours Festivaland the International Video Art Festival in Barcelona, among others. In 2013, Silvia returned to Colombia and worked as an Executive Producer for Colombo Films, a firm producing ads, web series, and other audiovisual content. She was responsible for campaigns such us: Fondo de Prevención Vial, Ford Fiesta, Klim, Zenú, Claro HD, Ramo, and Special Olympics. She produced the animated film Virus Tropical, based on the graphic novel by Powerpaola and directed by Santiago Caicedo, which won the Film Development Fund of Colombia in 2013. In 2014 her documentary project My Way or the Highway won the production prize of the Film Development Fund of Colombia and the co-production with Señal Colombia, a national TV channel. Moreover, in 2015 the project participated in the co-production forum at WEMW in Trieste, Italy and at DocLab Guadalajara where it won the color correction award granted by Cinecolor México. Silvia currently works as a Director and Producer. She has produced several video clips for the popular Colombian music band Bomba Estéreo, like Fiesta and Qué Bonito and the Red Bull’s last documentary Searching for Sound: Simón Mejia the return to San Basilio , co-directed a fashion film for Franca, a handcrafted bags and accessories company and directed the last brand’s film of the perfume Ilse Cherie of La Forêt. Silvia is working on her new fiction film Tropicalia, a surreal underwater story taking place in Santa Marta. She also teaches Family Documentary Telling at the public University of Magdalena, Santa Marta.

About Gustavo G.

"I am fascinated by the power of moving image as a communication medium and love telling stories through the eye of the camera." Professional in Audiovisual production from the Pontifical Xiaverian University in Bogota, Colombia. I've been producing films and proyects since 2014 with enthusiatic ideas. I am making films all the time, whether it is for work or for pleasure. I love incorporating movement in our projects and my favourite gear is the glidecam!

About Pamela A.

freelance in different audiovisual projects. Actually the last one is a music journey, developing tasks such as camera, editing. I'm learning with film professionals, I perfected different processes of audiovisual production

About Miko M.

Currently he works as a freelance director, cameraman, editor and colorist, for NGOs and for television channels or film production companies. He has produced as an independent his own documentaries, which most of them were based on Andean lands, like OTRA VEZ (2008), EL RING Y SUS TITANES (2010), which has been shown in numerous festivals in Buenos Aires, Austin (Texas), Belo Horizonte, Milano, Bologna, Oxaca. He was the co-author with Claudio Metallo e Nicola Grignani of UN PAGAMU. LA TASSA SULLA PAURA, a winning award reportage about pizzo, the mafia taxes at Lamezia Terme, Calabria. During the protest of 2011, he has filmed the documentary INDIGNADOS.HOW A PROTEST IS BORN, about the demonstrations in Barcelona, Spain which has been shown during the LIDF London International Documentary Festival 2012. In Peru he directed the documentary ALPAQUEROS DE APURIMAC, that has been shown in theaters at DocInTour, in Emila Romagna, Italy, and COOPERATIVAS DE APURIMAC, co-produced by GVC and Los Andes Cooperative, selected for the closing ceremony of the International Year of the Cooperatives, at IYC Short Film Festival in the United Nations Headquarters, New York, in November 2012. CUENTOS DE ALPAQUEROS (TALES OF ALPAQUEROS) was selected in the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival. Between 2012 and 2018 produce y direct various documentaries: TEACHING MICROCREDIT (Bangladesh, Mozambique, Ecuador, Tunisia, Italia 2014) PASTORES ANDINOS (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Italia 2015) TJAMPARANJANI! (Mozambique, Italia 2016) CHIPAYA. LA GENTE DE AGUA (Chipaya. The People of Water) (Bolivia, 2016) TIERRA ESPERANZA (Ecuador, 2017) RAICES DE LUCHA (Ecuador, 2018) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3554434/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

About Adelaida P.

Adelaida Pardo is a Colombian cinematographer with a nomadic spirit. She has worked in film productions both in documentary and fiction. Has been based in Canada, Colombia, Scotland, and Estonia. Now she is based in Berlin and works locally and internationally, as a freelance cinematographer. adelaidapardo(at)gmail(dot)com.

About Cooperativa A.

CoopDocs nace como una red de colaboración en la que se colectivizan los proyectos que cada uno trae consigo y colaborativamente se los viabilizan gracias a la experiencia, experticia y talentos específicos de sus integrantes, sin que la ubicación geográfica sea una limitante. Reconocemos al cooperativismo como el modo de gestión para la producción audiovisual comprometida con procesos sociales y comunitarios. Fomentamos un espacio de colaboración, a través del cual se puedan viabilizar muchos de nuestros proyectos individuales que han quedado estancados por falta de apoyos económicos, institucionales y sobre todo de tiempo y equipo humano. Mirando este elemento común, decidimos abrir un espacio en la periferia de la industria de la producción audiovisual comercial, gestionado directamente por los socios y socias y funcione como espacio de apoyo, colaboración, generación de recursos que permitan dignificar nuestro trabajo y apoye a la creación y difusión de materiales comunicacionales al servicio de organizaciones sociales, comunidades y causas sociales con las que nos identificamos. OBJETIVOS -Generar un espacio de crecimiento profesional y económico para los y las integrantes. (generación de ingresos que dignifiquen la labor profesional comprometida. -Apoyar comunicacionalmente a organizaciones sociales y comunidades para amplificar sus voces, luchas y procesos organizativos. -Aportar al fortalecimiento organizativo a partir de la formación y capacitación de los integrantes de organizaciones sociales y comunidades que se involucren en los procesos de producción comunicacional. -Aportar en la producción audiovisual, proyectos personales de los y las integrantes de la cooperativa, asi como tambien de proyectos en marcha de organizaciones sociales, ongs o procesos organizativos.

About Luis H.

Documentary photographer and ethnographer. He has studies in Plastic Arts and Sociology at the Central University of Ecuador. For more than 18 years he has worked directly with communities and organizations in the highlands, coast and eastern Ecuador. He has served as director and coordinator of different projects in Ecuador, United States and Europe, related to film, urban issues, photography, video and research. He is a founding member of CoopDocs in Ecuador. In this moment direct a documentary film call, Carmela and the walkers, documentary about Venezuelan immigrations an human help.

About Miguel S.

Video Producer from Panama. We have 9 years making video productions. Corporate and Social Videos

About Jose R.

I'm a freelance cinematographer based in Mérida, Venezuela, who has covered from protests, politics, environmental issues and extreme sports stories. I recently was the main videographer for an Associated Press documentary called Vanishing Venezuela, that details the work of scientists trying to study the country's last glacier. For that video, I filmed ground images in Mérida during massive blackouts, interviews and also their first climbing expedition to the Humboldt glacier at over 14,000 feet. I've also filmed in the Himalayas and recently in Venezuela's largest peak, Pico Bolívar. I'm passionate about filming, climbing, nature and photography, and very versatile when it comes to filming and editing. I have my own equipment, which includes a MavicPro 2 drone and Sony A7 iii camera, with a varied set of lenses.

About Mateo R.

Graduated from Film and Television from the National University of Colombia in 2012. Artistic and cultural manager in various fields. Screenwriter, Director, Editor and Producer. I have done work with communities and historical memory processes around the country. Egresado de Cine y Televisión de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en el 2012. Gestor artístico y cultural en diversos campos. Guionista, Productor, Cámara, Director y Editor. He trabajado con procesos comunitarios y de memoria histórica alrededor del país.

About Andres F.

I'm the founder of Ignite Studio, my role as the Creative Director is to ideate a path that brings solutions to problems by leveraging the use of innovative and powerful design and communication, we specialize in Motion Graphics, Animation and Design. At Ignite we've worked with clients such as Forbes, PepsiCo, Facebook and Amazon on various campaigns that have allowed us not just to think, but to make extraordinary ideas come to life through animation. I have an unstoppable hunger for knowledge and building systems that allow creativity to be more expressive and efficient, enabling creators from diverse perspectives accomplish their goals . I'm a native Spanish speaker and fluent in English (self-taught) with an unmeasurable passion for the gym and a not so common movie taste, have you watched a Herzog or Tarkovsky movie? I strongly recommend it.

About Juan A.

Audiovisual producer, director and editor from Ecuador. Filmmaker by profession, master's degree in Media Studies from The New School, NY. 10 years of experience recording and taking photos. I have directed and produced various videos for the internet and big screens. During the first 5 years of my experience I dedicated myself to recording music videos. Then I dedicated myself more to the production of political and web content. I did a master's degree from 2018 to 2020 in NY. Now I also work with Touche Films, a major production company in the country. Last year I directed a food reality show called "Ahora te toca a ti" and now I am editing the Behind the Scenes (material that I also recorded) for the film Misfit. My undergraduate thesis project was a documentary that is uploaded on my YouTube channel. For many years I did a lot with a small equipment . I think the important thing is the image and the story, not the fancy equipment.But, now I have my own good equipment. I care a lot about image and story, I feel confortable interviewing people . A year ago I started operating drones. I have been involved in more than a hundred of project. You can check my work in my webpage.

About Juan M.

I am an Ecuadorian filmmaker, grew up in Quito and have always developed a special love towards the history of this city and this country. I studied film and audiovisual studies in Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. My first oficial short-film was released in the year 2014 and since then , I have being working as a Director, director of photography and editor in the Colombian / Ecuadorian region. In 2016 Estudio Trementina was founded, an independent production studio witch I created with 2 colleagues. Estudio Trementina has c=become one symbolic studio in ecuador because of the artistic content we create and because it has focused on cultural videos in its majority. I have produced videos for Art Galleries, Museums, Theatres and music festivals in Quito and Guayaquil. 2020 and 2021 I have worked as cinematographer and editor for a docu-series about the music scene of Ecuador. this last year I participated as cinematographer of an international interview with alJazeera about a Bolivian robot designer who works with recycled material i filmed a interviewsDirected more than 50 music videos and have being director of photography of of more than 20 episodes of different cultural short-documentaries . EQUIPMENT BLACK MAGIC POKET 6KPRO / SONY ALPHA R2 / DRONE PHANTOM 4 / MANFROTO TRIPOD / LED LIGHT KIT / MICROPHONE ZOOM H5 AND ZOOM H3

About DANIEL R.

About Avant F.

Avant-Garde was born in 2014 in Bogota - Colombia, by a filmmaker that wanted to have the creative freedom to develop his ideas and grow professionally in a country that is a current hub of video and sound production worldwide. In the beginning, we dedicated ourselves exclusively to audiovisual projects, and we complemented our portfolio, providing services such as; rental and loans of equipment for the entertainment industry. In 2017, we made a strategic alliance with Aura Records to strengthen our services in sound design and music production, offering premium services that meet international standards of quality. Three years later, at the beginning of 2020, we expanded our headquarters to provide a physical space development of artistic and multicultural projects. Due to the pandemic and quarantine, this expansion, achieved in mid-2021 and, so far, we have hosted multiple creative projects from local artists (https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=9UdXHZug8MN). Within the Avant-Garde product catalog, we offer: rental of equipment, locations, music production, audiovisual production and co-production, artistic consultancy, artistic training (music, dance & graphics), production of artistic projects; management for artists (brand advice, technical and legal advice, creative direction and marketing.) In addition to the alliance with Aura Records, we have links and creative cooperation projects with; Bellaporta, Mathew Valbuena, and Taller Gráfico Editores. Additionally, we have worked on projects with Crowe, Dynamo, Señal Colombia, Pilar Larraz Ad hoc design, Idartes, among others. We have one the following recognition on the industry: Documentary Documentary serires Reparar para Seguir (2013) Nominated India Catalina 2014 - Postproduction Documentary serires Los Puros Criollos (2014) Nominated India Catalina 2014 - Postproduction Shortfilms Cabeza de Torpedo (2019) Production company Los Tres (2020) Executive producer Furtivo (2021-2022) Winner Incubadora BFM en el marco del XVII Bogoshorts - Co-production Music Videos Music video “Me Sangra” Pornomotora (2010) Nominated Salón Internacional de la luz 2012 - DP and Art Director Music video “Ahí Estaré” No Stories (2019) Nominated XVII Bogoshorts - Executive producer and Director Ads Promo Cinemateca Distrital (2016) Director and producer Architecture Promo Ad Hoc Design (2017) Director and producer

About Juan V.

Creative entrepreneur and video producer, passionate about finding and crafting meaningful content for digital media. Co-founder of Bahia Visual, a studio based in Bogotá, Colombia, that helps brands increase their perceived value and delight their customers using cinematic video content. He has a versatile approach to content creation that blends storytelling, artistry and strategy. With his background in journalism, he honed his skills as a documentary filmmaker, and now loves merging non-fiction stories with the world of brands. His skillset includes creative development, content research, organization and clear communication. This enables a seamless and positive collaboration with his clients and partners. Also, as part time electronic music producer, he translates his sense of rhythm to the visual medium, resulting in content that stands out by its dynamic pacing and deep integration between image and sound. Loves to run, meditate and travel the world. Big believer in systems and constant learning to achieve desired outcomes.