New York, NY, USA
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Ramon is a producer and filmmaker with a photography and journalism background, and extensive experience working in the field. He started his career working on commercial television, and then specialized in documentary production, focusing on environmental and social subjects mainly in the Americas. He holds masters in Media Studies from The New School, and Politics from New York University; and has worked for international broadcasters, publications and organizations like Univision/ABC, Americas Quarterly, MSNBC, Interamerican Development Bank, Vocativ, Fusion, Semana, UNHCR, Avocats Sans Frontiers, and World Wildlife Fund. Ramon worked as a senior producer on HBO's docs-series "Outpost" (2015-2016), and his multimedia documentary on the Syrian refugee crisis, "The New Promised Land", was nominated for a Gabriel García Marquez Journalism Award in 2016. His short documentary "The Holdouts", about the Colombian civil war, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. Recently, Ramon's 5-year-long photography project to document life in Colombia's war-torn Pacific region was featured by The New York Times.
The New Promised Land is a multimedia documentary that looks at the human scale of the Syrian refugee crisis that affected Europe since 2015. The project explores the personal journey of five young Syrians who have left their homes in search of a safe haven, and the initial phases of adaptation to their new European home.
Since it began to be drained by the U.S. government and white settlers in the early 1800s, the Everglades ecosystem has lost over half its original area; and most importantly, the slow-moving river that flows from Lake Okeechobee into Florida Bay, and which is the spinal chord of the entire system, is now full of man-made obstacles like canals, dykes and roads.
Indigenous struggle for land in the South of Colombia.
Produced for Glimmer Studios
As the Venezuelan government and the opposition enter talks aimed at resolving that country´s political, economic and security crisis, one of the sticking points will likely be the status of the Chavista militias known as “colectivos”.
New York Times feature of my 5-year-long photography project to document war in the Colombian Pacific coast.
Many Colombians refer to this town as ‘Toribistan,’ likening the situation here to that of Afghanistan. Nestled in the mountains, Toribio sits on the frontline of the long-running civil war between Colombia’s leftist rebels and government troops.
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