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.

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Hello my name is Juan Camilo Pérez Ruiz, I am from Bogotá, Colombia. I am Social Communicator and Journalist, Audiovisual Producer and Cameraman - Editor. I have a special interest in nature photography and documentary film. With 10 years of experience in the audiovisual media as a cameraman and editor I have participated in the realization of different types of content: social, corporate, real estate, chronicles, news, music video clips, commercial and advertising videos, short films, among others.

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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.

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Journalist and filmmaker based in Colombia with a decade of experience working for international news channels, current affairs programs and humanitarian groups. Recently I have also shot stories in Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil.

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Tom Laffay is a visual journalist, DP and director specializing in working on long term projects in Latin America bringing a cinematic look with journalistic rigor. Currently based in Colombia, he has been dedicated to covering the ongoing violence against human rights defenders over the course of the country's troubled peace process since 2016 and frequently shoots for media like ARD Germany, El Espectador and contributes to The Atlantic and The Guardian. Tom is bilingual (English / Spanish) and travels extensively producing short documentary films for New Media Advocacy Project and IUCN in South America, Africa and the US and since 2011 he has worked with La Isla Network to advance improvements in the agricultural labor sector in Central America. Recently he has begun working as a DP on more narrative films for directors Sean Mattison, Emily Wright and Antonio Santini and is interested in pursuing that path. Tom lives in Bogota, Colombia and is available for assignments in the Americas and just about anywhere else.

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Alejandra is a journalist and an empirical photographer, although more the latter than the former. For more than ten years she worked at SoHo, one of the most important magazine in Colombia, seven of them as the photo editor. She used to run a section called “A serious man grimaces and take a joke” in which she has portrayed national life characters such as former President César Gaviria and congressmen Jorge Enrique Robledo and Piedad Cordoba. Today she is focused in her own photograpic proyects and at the same time creating a storytelling studio with some partners in Bogotá. Among the first are her series on albinos, OVEREXPOSED VOL 1, 2, and 3 which have been exposed in Valenzuela Klenner (2011),at The Feria del Millón (2013), 360 Gallery (2014), and “la Cometa” Gallery” (2015). On the other hand, she has worked for many clients as Olga Piedrahita (designer), Pepa Pombo (designer), InFashion Magazine, Magazine Arcadia, Fucsia Magazine, Telefónica, Global Humanitarian, Diageo, Express Jhonnie Walker Brand, Protex, among others.

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My name is Charlie Cordero, I am a documentary photographer of 27 years based in Colombia, with studies of Photojournalism (University of Girona) in Girona, Spain and Master in Editorial Photography and Photojournalism of the school of Arts TAI (Rey Juan Carlos University) in Madrid, Spain. The recurrent themes in my work are: human rights, gender ideology, memory and reconciliation, conflicts and land use. With a photographic style that tries to play between the classic documentary and the contemporary photography, between the descriptive and the interpretive between the direct and the lyrical, between the decisive moment and the interstitial moment. Pizes: • Winner second place POY LATAM 2017 category migrations and trafficking in persons. • National Journalism Prize Winner Semana-Argos, category best photo report (2016) – Colombia • National Journalism Prize Winner Rodrigo Lara Laborde, Universidad Sergio Arboleda Category Multimedia (2016) - Colombia • Winner of the contest and exhibitor in Human World “La Tribu” en el festival de PHOTOALICANTE (2016) - Alicante, Spain. • Winner of the Contest “Madrid Insospechado, escenas latinoamericanas en Madrid”. PHOTOESPAÑA (2015) - Madrid, Spain. • Winner and participant of the exhibition Madrid 24H, In the Gallery Centro Centro Cibeles. PHOTOESPAÑA (2015) - Madrid, Spain. • Finalist and participant of the collective exhibition "Sin Fronteras" Alianza Francesa Madrid (En el marco de PHE 2015) – Madrid, España. • Finalist and participant of the collective exhibition in Festival Internacional de la Imagen FNI (2015) - Pachuca, México. Some of my works have been published in newspapers and magazines New York Times, EL PAIS, Vanity Fair, Courrier International, National Geographic, The Guardian, NZZ, The Sun, FIFA1904, El Tiempo, El Espectador among others while developing personal projects. Currently works as a professor in the program of Social Communication and Journalism at the Universidad del Norte, Universidad Autonoma del caribe and The Universidad Sergio Arboelda in Barranquilla, Colombia.

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Cecilia Traslaviña, animator and visual artist. Master in Literature. She is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia. Her work has different approaches: a personal side where she explores memories and the unconscious from nonlinear narratives in consonance with techniques of the visual arts. Also, she has collaborated with multiple artists and audiovisual schools in the creation of collective artworks, animated documentaries addressing topics from an experimental perspective. She has curated programs about experimental Colombian and Latin American animation which has been presented in multiple venues around the world. She is an active member of Moebius-Animación (www.moebiusaniamcion.com), whose objective is to amplify the voices of Latin American experimental animation. Her works have been selected in many national and international film festivals around the world.

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Hi I'm Angélica Toro. I'm a pianist and a filmmaker and live in Medellín,Colombia. Four years ago I co-founded the production company DeMente Fotográfica now Plano Gorilla. Echoes of the sea, our first documentary short film, was awarded as Best Documentary Short Film on the DocLa Los Angeles Documentary Short Film Festival, and Best Short Film in the 12th Annual Huntington Beach SoCal Film Festival in the United States. Was also showcased in Germany, Canada and Colombia. I think that Colombia is the country of stories, where there's a lot to show that the world hasn't seen yet. Since 2017 my production company has been developing videos for Ozy.com where we've been shooting from the simplest stories, to ones with people that can change the world through their ideas and their work. I invite you to watch our work, I'm sure you will enjoy it!

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I am a multimedia journalist covering human rights and socio-political issues, based between Latin America and Southeast Asia. I have reported on sexual violence, internal forced displacement, kidnapping, the reintegration of ex-militants from illegal armed groups into society, and the impact of drug policies on the livelihoods of coca farmers. I have also documented Cambodia’s post conflict rapid development and its impact on the Cambodian population including land grabs, civil unrest and the recession of natural resources. My work has been published on news outlets such as IRIN News , America’s Quarterly, Foreign Policy, CNN International and Le Monde; and I have produced communication materials for humanitarian organizations including Save the Children, CARE, UNICEF, Handicap International and BBC Media Action.

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Multimedia journalist, Laura Gamba was born and raised in Colombia. She graduated from law school, but decided early on she wanted to pursue a career in journalism. She started writing for a Colombian digital magazine and as the editor-in-chief of AlDerecho, the Law School newspaper. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, where she discovered a passion for radio. Laura reported, recorded and produced audio stories about the organ market in New York, drone regulations and the Zika virus, among others. She has worked for the Nuevo Herald in Miami and Los Informantes, an award winning Colombian TV journalistic program, yet she’s never forgotten her love for radio. Laura is currently working on her own podcast.

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María Gabriela Méndez is a social communicator and degree in Literature, graduated from the Central University of Venezuela. He did a master's degree in publishing and cultural journalism at La Sapienza University in Rome. He has worked as a journalist since 1998, in the Venezuelan newspapers El Nacional, El Universal, El Mundo and the weekly EnCaracas. He has collaborated for some magazines such as Arcadia, Gatopardo and Esquire. She is co-author of the Pioneros books. Scenes from the first five years of the National Orchestras System of Venezuela (ArtiCruz Editores, 2012) and Panorama: 46 ways of making art in Bogotá (Rey Naranjo Editores, 2016). Since 2015, she is editor and journalist of the Bienestar Magazine.

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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.

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Hi! I am a Dutch journalist and travel writer, living in Bogota, Colombia. In 2014, I left the Netherlands with a one-way ticket to Ecuador, and since then I travelled to almost every country in Latin America, while writing stories for Dutch media on the way. Since 2017 I am living in Colombia. I work as a correspondent for Dutch and Belgian media (writing and photography), as a travel writer for several travel magazines, and I also do production and fixing work for Dutch and Belgian television companies. Lately, because of the pandemic, I have been working as a copywriter for travel agencies and a Swiss investment fund.

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Journalist and Producer with 18+ years experience in the U.S and Colombia. I have covered the White House, immigration in the U.S. I am very familiar with all aspects of production as I have directed multiplatform news outlets. I am Fully bilingual (English and Spanish) I have worked with BBC, CNN, Globe and Mail, among others as a fixer on a range of stories that cover the Pope`s Visit, the peace process, post-conflict, elections etc. I am available for work anywhere in Colombia and Latinamerica.

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Camarógrafo profesional con 25 años de experiencia en la realización de documentales y realitys en Colombia y el extranjero. Camarógrafo y director de fotografía en la realización de crónicas y reportajes para televisión. Camarógrafo en el cubrimiento de eventos políticos, económicos y deportivos en Colombia. Camarógrafo y realizador freelance de reportajes periodísticos para La Voz de América de Estados Unidos.

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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.

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Ivd been working in the media since 2006, ivd worked in Venezuela till year 2011, when i went to study Filmmaking in Buenos Aires, where i worked till the year 2018, since february 2017 ivd been working with Falir Media consultancy (Italy - Turkey), making short storys for Aljazeera Arabic, first from Argentina and now from March 2018 from Colombia. I work with a Jurnalist.

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I work with social justice issues, indigenous communities, drugs and culture. freelance for media such as CNN International, ARD, Fluter Magazine, Taz Die, Republik. I have personal projects focused on the construction of documentaries under the premises of I.A.P. (La investigación acción participativa - participatory action research).

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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).

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