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 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 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 Tatiana R.

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 Kimberley B.

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 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 Caldwell M.

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 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 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 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 Luis M.

Filmmaker from Colombia. Journalist and social comunicator. Founder of the company Rana Dorada Producciones. I have served as Director and DP, of several documentaries in Colombia, among them the documentary series `Mar de Colores' for the Señal Colombia channel, also as an audiovisual producer for the series` Heroes Al Rescate Animal' of Fundación Natibo and Señal Colombia, the unitaries `Seiamake' and` Trenzar y Vivir' for the regional channel Telecaribe, in addition to approximately 300 documentary clips between 1 and 3 minutes on the department of La Guajira. I was nominated for the India Catalina television awards and our documentaries have been in several national and international festivals. //////////////////////////////// Español \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Cineasta Colombiano. Comunicador social y Periodista. Fundador de la empresa Rana Dorada Producciones. Me he desempeñado como Director y DP, de varios documentales en Colombia, entre esos la serie documental `Mar de Colores´ para el canal Señal Colombia, también como realizador audiovisual para la serie `Héroes Al Rescate Animal´ de Fundación Natibo y Señal Colombia, los unitarios `Seiamake´ y `Trenzar y Vivir´ para el canal regional Telecaribe, además de aproximadamente 300 clips documentales de entre 1 y 3 minutos sobre el departamento de La Guajira. Estuve nominado a los premios India Catalina de la televisión y nuestro documentales han estado en varios festivales nacionales e internacionales.

About Ramiro A.

I am Ramiro Aguilar Villamarín (Quito, Ecuador – 1985), visual anthropologist, social communicator and journalist, specialized in video and photography. Since 2014 I have worked as a videographer, photographer and reporter for national media and Hispanic-American digital portals, summing up numerous published works. By 2020 I am about to complete my master’s degree in research in visual anthropology where I have developed debates and works (written, photographic and audiovisual) on photography, cinema, memory, history, cultures, indigenous peoples and Amazonia. In addition to these topics, in my work I have approached the struggle of workers, social movements, human rights and migrations. My work and approach to the field of image and audiovisual, both in form and content, is based on strict humanitarian ethical principles. I seek to make evident the value or re-value the cases or human groups that I portrait, opposing any victimizing or discriminatory treatment nor approach. As well, I position myself critically on the traditional representations of minorities, excluded or marginalized groups. I am currently available for assignments mainly in the documentary field.

About Lenin D.

Soy periodista y productor independiente, grabo contenido de interés para otros medios sobre la situacion que se vive en mi país Venezuela. Siempre estoy buscando historias que contar. Produzco para varios medios en Europa, EEUU y Latinoamerica, siempre buscando expandir las posibilidades de visibilizar.

About DANIEL R.