About Lina G.

My name is Lina Gaitán, I live in Cali, Valle del Cauca, a province from Colombia, since I was 3 years old. I studied History and english for teaching at the university, but I got passionate for video-making as a member of Féminas Festivas Feminist Collective, a circle of women, that some friend and me started 5 years ago, that involve activities of self-caring, self-taught and production of creative and artistic material about our life experience as women. This passion lead me to met the local producer of gender based information network INFOGENERO.NET from MAVI foundation (Mujer,Arte y Vida) a feminist collective of women with 18 years of experience in media production and feminist activism in Cali. There I work as collaborator in research, recording, narration and editing since 2011. I love stories about diary life committed people to transform their lives and their communities, peace building, women rights activism and art, as well as the upcoming visibility of gender dissidence and creativity.

About Mauricio G.

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About Juan C.

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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.