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 Federico P.

I am a biologist, a photographer and a documentary filmmaker with a keen eye for human-environment interactions in all their shapes and forms. I mostly work on nature, science and conservation documentaries but my eyes are also drawn to everyday expressions of human culture.

About Alejandro T.

Hi, I've been working as a field production in advertising, also i have more than ten years of experience in producing, collaborating, and helping other producers in documentary and research, for NGO's and other government institutions, I have a degree in Recording arts, for sound recording, also other degree in visual communication for development, i´m finishing a master degree in environment management and sustainability, my experience in film and digital movie has been related to social and environment topics, advertising, sound recordist and sound designer for advertising and as a second camera assistant for documentary, I also i am a drone operator.

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 Frantz J.

Me interesan las historias que tengan que ver con la cultura, la memoria y los problemas de representación de las personas.

About Néstor Z.

Filmmaker graduated from EICTV, Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televsion de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Documentary and fiction filmaking. DOP, Director and Editor. Cineasta colombiano egresado de la Escuela Internacional de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños EICTV. Con experiencia en proyectos de ficción y documental como director, director de fotografía, operador de cámara, productor y montajista. “Jumeninduawa” Documentary 30 min. HDcam. DOP/Camera / Production, Corporación de Investigación y Acción Social y Económica CIASE / INTERVIDA. COLOMBIA, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrd23P3agxE “Existiendo en la Memoria” Documentary 35 min. HDcam. DOP/Camera / European Union / Comisión Intereclecial de Justicia y Paz. COLOMBIA, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVULw4O9xQk “En tierra de otros, Agrocombustibles y Derecho al Territorio” Documentary 40 min. HDV Director, Camera, Editor, 2010. CINEP / Diakonía Internacional / Plataforma colombiana de DDHH / ILSA / OFP. COLOMBIA, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_7MQxQaJ0 “Los Perros” Fiction 35 mm.-color. 10 Min. DOP. Festivals: IV Festival de cine pobre de Gibara (Cuba 2006) – 11 Festival de cine cubano Frankfurt (Germany 2006) – 16 Cine Ceara en Fortaleza (Brasil 2006) – Cinesul 2006 en Río de Janeiro. Production, EICTV / Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano FNL. CUBA, 2005. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovckHtO_1W4 “Listen and Sea” Documentary. DVcam-Betacam SP. 25 Min. DOP. Production, EICTV / Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano FNC. CUBA, 2005. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B5TMl708DA “Como si el pasaje pasara” Fiction. S16 mm. Color. DOP. Selección oficial Festival de Cine Independiente Barcelona 2007. Production,EICTV / Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano FNL / KHM Kunsthochschule für Medien –Germany. CUBA-Germany, 2005. https://vimeo.com/139568574 “Tomados de la Mano” Documentary. 12 Min. Betacam SP. DOP. Winner Best Short Documentary, II Festival de Cusco 2005 (Perú) EICTV/ Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano FNL. CUBA, 2004. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hzdFdgPb3E “Retrato de Amor” Fictionn 3 Min. 16 m.m. Color. Screenwriter/Director. EICTV / FNL. CUBA, 2003. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T6na2Jrr00

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 Misha V.

Misha Vallejo was born in 1985 in Riobamba, Ecuador. He is a documentary storyteller whose work focuses in Latin America and Europe. In 2014 he completed his MA in Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London.   Among other distinctions, he won the 2020 Documentary Production Funds of the Ecuadorian Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Creation for his first documentary feature film. Also, he has won the Goethe Institut and Prince Claus Fund for Cultural and Artistic Response for Environmental Change (Germany & Netherlands, 2018), the Photo Europe Network Prize at the PhotOn Festival in Valencia (Spain, 2018), he was selected for the Docking Station artist-in-residence program in two occasions (Netherlands, 2019 and 2020) and won the Ecuadorian National Arts Prize Mariano Aguilera (2015).   In 2016 he published his first photobook Al Otro Lado (Editora Madalena, Sao Paulo), which was selected among the best author photobooks at the Rencontres de la Photographie festival in 2016 (France), obtained the only honorable mention at the prize Felifa-Fola (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and was selected as the best photography book in Brazil in that same year, among many other international distinctions. In 2018, Spanish publishing house RM released his second photobook Siete punto Ocho, which won an honorable mention at the contest Pictures of The Year Latin America 2019 and was featured at the Athens Photo Fest (Greece, 2019). Recently, the same publishing house released his third book Secret Sarayaku, which is part of a transmedia documentary project that also includes an interactive web platform www.secretsarayaku.net and an exhibition. Among others, his personal work has been shown at the LUMIX Festival of Young Visual Journalism (Hannover, Germany 2020), Bronx Documentary Center (New York, USA, 2018), at the Rencontres de la Photographie festival (Arles, France, 2018), at the Budapest Photo Festival (Hungary, 2019), at the International Photography Festival of Valdivia (Chile, 2019) and in several solo exhibitions throughout Latin America and Europe. His editorial and personal work has been published in such media like The New York Times Lens, VICE, GEO, Marie Claire, Esquire and many others. He has given talks and workshops in photography and audiovisual storytelling in Latin America and Europe, a highlight of which was his participation at the 3rd Latin American Colloquium of Photography in Mexico City, 2018.   Currently he is based in Ecuador and works in film and photography throughout Latin America and Europe.

About Giuliano C.

I’m a self-taught Videographer and Filmmaker. Since aged 17, I’ve specialised in the different processes of capturing light, photography, moving image & visual effects. In 2010, together with JM Suarez, we start MURILLO FILMS, a production company based on the Colombian Caribbean that produces films. In 2012 I received the India Catalina at Cartagena Film Festival for "Ebony", a video-art that evokes reflections on the problems experienced by African descents, as a minority population of our country. My latest project is the FICBAQ International Film Festival of Barranquilla, where I am the director and the artistic curator. This summer I became the film programmer and board member of the Caribbean Cinematheque

About Javier C.

Javier Castaneda worked in advertising and tv as a cinematographer and co-producer for 7 years. Now he's been working in documentaries as a audiovisual producer and videographer for the most important news companies like cctv china and aljazeera plus and Vice.

About Chuck H.

I am a freelance war correspondent, writer, photographer and video producer. I have been a freelance war correspondent, reporting for the Christian Broadcasting Network since 2003. I travel extensively as a cameraman for LtCol Oliver North. I host a web-tv show on the Life of Duty Network (www.lifeofduty.tv) called Frontlines. I have nine books in print, and write regularly for magazines such as the NRA American Warrior. I own a small production company and sell stock footage (www.stockwarfootage.com) and travel to over a dozen countries each year on assignment.

About Gabriel P.

I have been a fixer for 10 years now. I can assist you with location permits, logistics, transportation, discount hotel accommodations, equipment rental, finding talent and local technical crew

About Mauricio V.

Fashion Photographer and Audiovisual creator, experienced in teaching and TV. Over the years I have worked in different areas like Direction, Fashion and Comercial Photography, 3D animation, editing, screenwriting, color correction, cameraman, among others. Going through these processes that are covered by the audiovisual, from start to finish allowed me to understand and develop skills and made me focus basically on Fashion Photography and Audiovisual creation. I am kind a person able to learn quickly, I´m so restless, I love knowledge, study and everything that could enrich my life and my profession. Deep lover of Japanese and Asian culture, music, psychological thrillers, technology and design.

About Dani T.

Born in Ecuador and living in Colombia, Daniel is a multimedia journalist specialized in news gathering for press agencies and international media, with extensive experience working in hostile environments. For over a decade he has freelanced for: Reuters TV, Reuters Photo, AFP and Ruptly. He has also worked as a VJ and photographer for Playboy Magazine, AJPlus, Al Jazeera Arabic, NTN24, CNN Spanish, Getty Images, Christophorus Magazine (Porsche), Associated Press and others. Daniel is also an active member of the Frontline Freelance Register (FFR). Some of his top stories include "The 2016 earthquake that shook the coast of Ecuador", "The eruption of the Tungurahua volcano" that began in 2000, and "The attempted coup that unruly police officers caused in Ecuador in 2010". He is able to react quickly and has the necessary technical equipment, including satellite devices, drones, teleprompters and safety gear. Daniel is ready to cover breaking news and reports across the continent.

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 Maria C.

My name is Camila and I´m a visual artist with wide experience on documentaries. I have worked as a producer, filmmaker and writer in a diverse range of audiovisual projects. I've acknowledge experience on all the production processes and got involved with research, writing and conceptual development for audiovisual pieces. I consider myself a creative, responsible, excellent working partner. I'm kind of an introvert, but friendly and disciplined. I have worked for Discovery Channel, Nat Geo, TLC, PBS among others. My versatile profile has given me a complete comprehension of the audiovisual world and has given me lots of tools to finish any given task.

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 Beny Z.

I'm a filmmaker from Venezuela currently living in Bogotá. My main passion is to find new stories to tell and find a new way to tell it. Part of my experience comes from documentary projects in several countries with ONG's. Also got experience with commercials, branded content and profiles for digital platforms.

About Tatiana R.