COLOMBIAN SHORT FILMS @ SFM
Watch more than 100 Colombian short films at the Short Film Market catalog: 71 fictions, 20 animations and 37 documentaries produced or co-produced by Colombian filmmakers .
Find here their contact info and reach out to them during this online edition of the SFM through SFW. See what they're looking for and what their next works will be all about.
JUAN JOSÉ VELÁSQUEZ
1969
Fiction. 15 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
NICOLAS OLIVERA
Nicolas Olivera was born in Bogota, Colombia. He has directed and produced many independent projects, including short movies, documentaries and music videos. His short movie Alba: Yesterday Belongs To The Death (2016) was part of the official selection of 10 festivals around the world, including Cortopolis (Arg.), Feci (Col.) and UMFF (Atlanta, USA). He currently lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.
A TERRA
Fiction. 13 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
I am interested in promoting my new short film A Terra (2020). I am looking for interesting spaces to show it and possible distributors. I am also interested in finding partners and allies for my next projects that include a feature film (in Colombia and Canada), and a short film (in Indonesia).
LUIS SALAS
Luis Salas graduated as an art director and visual artist at Escuela superior de creativos publicitarios and studied Fine Arts at the UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes), Argentina. He specialized in motion graphics at Image Campus and has been linked to the world of animation for 8 years, working in different studios in Colombia, Chile and Argentina, as director, producer, art director and animator of different projects. Alebrijes is his debut opera as a director.
ALEBRIJES
Animation. 12 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Distributors, sales agents
SIMÓN ÁVILA BENAVIDES
Simón Avila Benavides is a Bolivian filmmaker. He has written and directed the following short films in co-production with Congo Films (Col): Temporal (8´), participant in the Short Film Corner at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival and winner of best short film at the 15th International Human Rights Film Festival of Bolivia besides participating in other international festivals; Artificiall (10`) and Chamán (6 '), distributed by Gonella Productions (Fra).
In 2020 he founded the independent production company A Mar Cine (Bol /Col), currently promoting his most recent script: Dulce, directed by Rommel Villa (Winner of the Student Academy Award 2020).
ARTIFICIALL
Fiction. 10 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Latin-American and international Festivals, laboratories and competitions
CAMILO CONDE
We are an animation studio dedicated to project development. Our projects are located on the fine line that separates reality from fiction, we work with communities and people based on their real stories, seeking to be part of their processes of construction of subjectivity as individuals, and their cultural development as communities, using animation as a means of access to our audiences.
BARBAZUL
Animated Documentary. 11 min. 2019
INTERESTS @ SFW
México
Estudios de animación: Al animation Studios, Anemona Studio, Ánima Estudios
Argentina
Participación en Ventana Sur
Vínculo con Productora de Cine: Haddock Film
Estudio de Animación: Arcus Animation Studios
Brasil
Festival Anima Mundi
Blue Sky Studios
SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ CÁRDENAS
I'm a filmmaker graduated from Jorge Tadeo Lozano university Bogotá/Colombia. Baudilio (2019) was my first short film as a director winning The Audience Award in the 17th version of the Bogoshorts Film Festival / Festival de cortos de Bogotá - BOGOSHORTS, The Fosil Award for The best Escuelas Colombia Short Film in the thirteenth version of the Villa de Leyva’s International Independent Film Festival and The Best Colombian Short film in El Festival de Cine en mi Barrio (Popayán). That same year, Baudilio (2019) participated in the official selection of several festivals in Colombia such as: Ituango’s Film Festival: Human Rights, Colombian Film Festival SIEMBRAFEST, EUREKA University Film Festival, among others.
In addition, I have worked in the production design department participating in different short films, videoclips, commercials and in the feature film Eva and Candela (¿Cómo te llamas?, 2018), directed by Ruth Caudeli. I was EUREKA’S University Film Festival academic programmer in its third version (FDC Grant Winner) and currently I work as an assistant director and approacher.
BAUDILIO
Fiction. 2019
PÁJAROS
Fiction. 2021
INTERESTS @ SFW
Sales agents
International Film Festivals
Screening possibilities
PABLO ÁLVAREZ MESA
Director y cinematógrafo freelance interesado en colaboraciones de cine de no-ficción creativo e independiente. Como director sus trabajos se han presentado en Berlinale, Visions du Réel, RIDM entre otros. Como cinematógrafo sus trabajos se han presentado en Tribeca (Landfall, dir. Cecilia Aldarondo), Museum of Moving Image (1999, dir. Samara Chadwick), Hot Docs (Illusions of Control, dir. Shannon Walsh) etc.
MARÍA TERESA GAVIRIA
Cumbia Films is a film production company focused on the development of narrative content and production for film, documentary, music videos and international production services.
We develop content that highlight the positive aspects of our culture and believe film is a powerful tool for the transformation of social values.
Our projects have been beneficiaries of Fondo de Desarrollo Cinematográfico Colombiano (FDC-Proimágenes) national production funds with multiple awards, honorable mentiones and over 70 international film festival participations. We are part of MARCA PAIS since 2016.
LA CACHERA
Documentary. 13 min. 2019
INTERESTS @ SFWTo obtain financing/coproducers for our new fiction feature film KUNDILO PALENGE, FDC winner 2020
To connect with funders, investors
International pre-sales to distributors and/or platforms
To connect with festival programmers, latin american film festivals and niche festivals: human rights, social, underrepresented communities
Potential co-producers from Ibero America, Europe, US, Canada
Networking
Feature film script labs, Film fund programs
Sales agent interested in feature film projects on development stage and/or finished short films
Distribution companies focused on VOD & digital distribution platforms
Original content buyers
Companies interested in Colombia film production services
ALFREDO MARIMON CARCAMO
Born in Cartagena, he settled in Bogotá to study Film and Television at the National University of Colombia. He co-directed and co-produced the documentary “El Corral”, official selection of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Entrevues Belfort, ZINEBI, MIDBO, among others. He was the winner of the FEISAL award at the Havana Film Festival in 2019 and a special Jury mention at the Colombian Film Festival in New York. Winner of the 2019 Bogotá International Film Festival Production Workshop. Invited to the 2020 Málaga Film Festival Production Workshop - Málaga Talents.
CARTAGENA OLAYA
Documentary. 13 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Festivals
Sales Agents
Co-producers for a new project in Colombia
VOD platforms
JUAN ALEJANDRO MANRIQUE CAÑÓN
I am Social Comunicator focused on Audiovisual comunication. Also I am a professional photographer. I have worked in many films and videoclips. Among these productions are Innegociable from the director Nestor Serrano and the videoclip of Nikki Garden's song Dime.
CIRCUNSTANCIAL
Fiction. 17 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Co-producers in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia
Sales Agents
DARINEL ALHUCEMA
Colombian actor and director, graduate of "La casa del Teatro Nacional" in 2017 with nine years of experience in the milieu, he presents his debut in cinema, also, where he debuts as a scriptwriter: his first short film "Four steps for a misstep", a constant exploration between the narrative and the image that let the viewers to delve into the intimacy of its protagonists.
CUATRO PASOS PARA UN TROPIEZO
Fiction. 13 min. Colombia
INTERESTS @ SFW
To obtain financing to produce scripts
Co- productions with film producers
To connect with investors
International pre-sales to distributors and plattforms
To connect with festival programmers
Distribution companies interested in my short film
CAMILO MARCIALES
Voice Films is an independent film and audiovisual production company founded in Bogota in 2016. It works in the creation and production of author content for film, new media, virtual reality and animation. It has developed independent film products among which stand out La Jaula de los Pájaros (Honorable Mention at the International Independent Film Festival of Villa de Leyva, 2016) and Cuerpo Oscuro (Winner of the stimulus of the Colombian Film Development Fund, FDC-Proimágenes Colombia 2017). He is currently developing in co-production with Bossa Nova Films (bossanovafilms.com.br), one of the largest production companies in Brazil, and Sendero Films, (senderofilmes.com), AR9-LAT, a project about Street Art in Latin America for Premium TV channels. In addition to a co-production with Sendero Films of the feature documentary Babylon, selected at DocLab 2018 (DocSp), Sao Paulo, Brazil and winner of the FICG award, production meeting of the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Participated, thanks to the FDC-Proimágenes Colombia 2018 and 2019 Automatic Funds, in the European Film Market, Berlinale, 2019 and the Marché Du Film, Cannes Film Festival.
CUERPO OSCURO
Fiction 21 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFM
Potential co-producers in German-speaking countries and Ibero-America
Distributors
Film festivals
Post-production Labs
Animation studios
Film Festivals
CRISTIAN ARCOS
Mono Dorado is a Colombian audiovisual production company focused on entertainment for children and teenagers. We make animated films, video games, augmented reality and transmedia content. We also give workshops on production, script, animation, photography and illustration for vulnerable populations.
EL DESAYUNO
Animation. 2 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Production companies and distributors interested in The Breakfast as anti-COVID short film and anti-COVID transmedia
Production companies focused on children contents
International sales agent
Shortfilm and newmedia festivals
MARÍA PAULA CARVAJAL
Film and Television Professional graduated from Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Bogotá, Colombia). Focused on the production and art direction of audiovisual projects. Baudilio (2019) was her first short film as a producer by which she won several awards at different festivals in the country. She has worked in the art department participating in different short films, video clips and in the feature film Eva and Candela (2018) directed by Ruth Caudeli.
She is currently working in the distribution of her short films "Baudilio" (2019) directed by Santiago Rodríguez, Dolor (2019) directed by Juan Roncancio And Yo, Sofía (2020) directed by Kevin Vélez, and coursing third semester of scenic arts degree at National Pedagogical University. She is also co-founder and audiovisual coordinator of the Cafuné Foundation: Integral Human Development.
DOLOR
Fiction. 10 min. 2019
INTERESTS @ SFW
Sales agents
Latin American Festivals
JUANA LOTERO LÓPEZ
DULCES SUEÑOS
Fiction/Animation. 8 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
DANIEL OCHOA
(Bogotá, 1987) Historian, Film and Television Director and Master in Audiovisual Creation. Researcher in arts and social sciences, university professor, currently working in advertising. He has directed two fiction short films Teiko (2016) and Entelechy (2020) and a documentary medium-length film Radiography of Oblivion"(2014).
Teiko participated in different exhibitions and festivals inside and outside the country including the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival, the Macondo awards from the Colombian Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences and the Colombian Film Scene held in Paris in 2018.
ENTELEQUIA
Fiction. 20 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFM
My artistic interests revolve around the possibility of thinking about a cinema beyond the classic narrative schemes. Experimental cinema, narrative alternatives, Latin American thought, religious iconography, experimental cinema.
RODRIGO TRUJILLO
La Casa Jaguar, based in Bogotá (Colombia) is a young audiovisual content creator company where we write and/or produce projects for series, short or feature films; whether commissioned or for in-house production. Buried Alive (2020) is our last delivery (¿Si o No? - 2019, Por Diego - 2018). Rodrigo is the head of the company, he has worked in various sectors of the film and theatre industries and participated in numerous Dynamo and Caracol projects as AD and Casting Director. It was there where he patiently gained experience, until his passion for storytelling prompted him to write and create his own projects. At first he found in the theatre the perfect channel to express and develop his ideas, it was a very fertile time and in a few years he premiered several plays for theatres such as La Maldita Vanidad. This encouraged him to return to his origins and with friends they began to shape a powerful film crew, and that's how La casa Jaguar was born. At the time we are developing various series projects (writing) and our first feature film (El Toro y La Luna).
ENTERRADA VIVA
Fiction. 9 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
To connect with sales agents, producers, distributors, film festival programmers, original content buyers, film fund programs and screenplay labs
WILSON ARANGO
We are a Medellín company founded in 2017 by Edna Sierra and Wilson Arango. A team of passionate artists and filmmakers, with high human, academic, and technical training. We are dedicated to the production, realization, and distribution of cinematographic, interactive, immersive, and transmedia content, with high standards of narrative and aesthetic quality.
We are focused on our mission to help people make the world a better place and we believe that the way to do it is through our work. In recent years we have produced various audiovisual works of social impact, which have obtained gratifying national and international recognition, by being premiered and awarded at prestigious festivals, such as Mar del Plata, Havana, and Bussan, among others.
LA ESPERANZA
Fiction. 18 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
International and Latin American festivals
Sales agents
J. M. SUÁREZ
Colombian film company in constant searching to propose through audiovisual new perspectives on the Caribbean as a context and concept, experimenting apart from narratives and revoking stereotypes. Murillo Films was at many festivals with GONAWINDÚA, a koggi science fiction short film currently freely available on the web.
LA ESQUINA DEL MOVIMIENTO
Documentary. 24 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Exhibition, management and sale events related to the artistic production of the Caribbean as a concept and context
Exhibition, management and sale events focused on music documentaries
Exhibition, management and sale events focused on creative documentaries
ALEXANDRA JIMÉNEZ
LA FORTUNA INVERTIDA
Fiction. 8 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
JHINA HERNÁNDEZ OSPINA
We have more than 10 fiction, documentary and animation short films, accumulating several recognitions such as the FDC, among which are: Family Stories, Gerardo, El Pájarocubo, Los Aretes y Cascabeles; the documentaries: Golden Claws, An Open Tomb, and The Intrusion, which have participated in laboratories and international markets. In addition, we provide production services for projects such as: Kairós, Narcos S3, and the Bogota Film Commission.
GERARDO
Fiction. 18 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Participating in this edition of the market pursues a main interest for our company: the distribution and exhibition of our short film Gerardo, for which we are also looking a sales agent. We would love for other festivals to know about it and be interested in exhibiting it.
We also want to distribute other finished projects such as El Pájarocubo, a short film that is part of the current list in competition for the Oscar in the category of animation. Furthermore, we are interested in other international companies to know our work and the projects we have in development, such as the animated short films Cascabeles and El hombre del reloj; the youth themed Sincopados and Birra y andén; and the short drama Los Aretes, as we are looking for partners and allies interested in co-producing stories in our country, with France, Mexico, and Brazil as the main focus.
MÓNICA BRAVO & MIGUEL BOHÓRQUEZ
Mónica Bravo and Miguel Bohórquez – MBBM - live and work in Cali, Colombia. Miguel is an animator with a keen interest in motion graphics as a form of audiovisual language and Mónica is a writer-director exploring the possibilities of non narrative form and diagrammatic script writing.
HABITOGRAFÍA(dos)
Experimental animation. 10 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
We are looking for potential co producers who are interested in experimental cinema, both in Latin America and the rest of the world. We are working on the second part of a four part film called HABITOGRAPHY. HABITOGRAPHIED is the first instalment of the complete work. We are also interested in international festivals focused on experimental films. Finally, we are interested in collaborations and artists residences that can help advance the big project of which this short film is just the beginning.
LAURA RODRÍGUEZ HENAO
She has worked as director, screenwriter and audiovisual producer in charge of web series and short films both documentaries and fiction over the past five years, among which stand out Je suis Paula, that had a premiere in Chile FICVIÑA (2020) also winner of the Maria award for Best Colombian Short Film at FICCALI (2020) and Elevados, web series, India Catalina Award nominee (2019). Her interests include writing, producing and directing different fiction formats.
JE SUIS PAULA
Experimental. 23 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
To connect and get in contact with sales and distribution agents interested in experimental and film made with found footage for possible exhibitions in alternative spaces.
MAURÍCIO CHADES
Maurício Chades is a visual artist and filmmaker from the Brazilian Northeast. He holds a Master’s Degree in Art and Technology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual, both from the University of Brasilia (UnB). He is currently pursuing a MFA at the SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in the Film, Video, New Media and Animation department. Flows of materials, death rituals, speculative fiction, inter-species relations and territorial tensions are some themes his work, which takes different forms with each project - between film, installation, bio-art-and-technology and performance. He participated in group art exhibitions and exhibited films and videos in Brazilian and international festivals, such as: Mostra do Filme Livre, Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema, RECIFEST, International Cinema Journey of Bahia, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Besides the Screen, Pune Film Festival, Bogotá Experimental and Sphere World Cinema Carnival. In 2019 he presented his first solo exhibition, Pirâmide, Urubu, at the Digital TV Tower in Brasília.
JUCA
Experimental. 29 min. 2019
INTERESTS @ SFW
Potential co-producers in Brazil, Argentina or Mexico
Sales agents
Latin American festivals
LGTBIQ + festivals
Experimental film festivals
YIRA PLAZA O'BYRNE
Pasolini en Medellín is a group formed in 2002 in the city of Medellín, Colombia. Our main characteristic is an ethnographic-based research approach and a creative commitment to building the narrative, artistic, photographic and sound universes of our work, both in documentaries and fiction. Our recent productions include The Trial (Habana Film Festival 2020), A mitad del camino (BOGOSHORTS 2019, FICBA 2020) and the feature length documentary Songs That Flood The River to be released this year.
EL JUICIO
Fiction. 19 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Latin-American, European and Asian festivals
Sales agents
ERIKA PIRAGAUTA
Erika is a film and TV producer. She has worked in two feature films, TV series, documentaries, short films and commercials. Also she's the co-director of Fundación Ciudad Diafragma, an ONG that develops processes of social transformation through teaching cinema and photography to teenagers and children of vulnerable zones. Her experience is with the private and public sector alike.
LEGÍTIMA DEFENSA
Fiction. 12 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Distribution companies and digital distribution platforms
International co-producers in projects in the development stage
Festivals, markets and laboratories
TOMÁS PINZÓN LUCENA
La Cueva Films is an independent Colombian producer company and artistic collective focused on audiovisual creation as a bridge between the arts for the development of transmedia projects with a social and cultural impact. Our objective is to foster dialogues between the artistic and the social, challenging production models, through new forms and narratives that allow new voices to emerge.
Filmography
LUPITA Y LAS SIRENAS
Fiction. 20 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
INFO
CAMILO IGUARÁN
Filmmaker graduated from the University of Magdalena and currently a student of the Master's in Film, Communication and Audiovisual Industry at the University of Valladolid. Screenwriter and director of the short film Memorias del cuerpo (2020) premiered at the Alicante International Film Festival, Spain and selected in more than 16 festivals around the world. He is currently developing the documentary Caribbean Cheer for Colombian television and the short film No le tengo miedo al agua in Spain. He was the winner of the New Creators 2020 call of the Ministry of Culture and Señal Colombia.
MEMORIAS DEL CUERPO
Fiction. 10 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Sales agents
Co-productions
Networking
Interested in LGBTIQ-Human rights content
SANTIAGO GIRALDO
Master in Documentary Cinema. Musician and Designer. He has focused his career on directing and producing music videos and building his own musical project, En la Arboleda. For Santiago it is important to narrate through collective memory and from there configure his work.
LA MIRADA DESNUDA
Documentary. 26 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
We are interested in Latin American and European festivals as well as sales agents and platforms for digital distribution.
ANDRÉS RESTREPO GÓMEZ
MUHAMED EL ZURDO
Fiction. 19 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
NATALIA POLO LÓPEZ
Colombian filmmaker from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia with a master's degree in Media Management from the Università della Svizzera Italiana. She has worked in the departments of direction, production and art for 9 Colombian feature films (Sumas y Restas, El Colombian Dream, Te Busco, Nacimiento, X500, to mention some) and more than 10 short films. Natalia has experience also as advisor in the design and analysis of content for audiovisual projects of public interest and in the academic field, as well as in the production of multiple artistic, cultural and sports projects. Producer, co-writer, and art director of the animated short film EL INTRONAUTA (2020), and producer of the documentary short film EL MUNDO DE HUMBERTO (2021), both winning projects of public funds in Colombia for their production and currently in the distribution stage.
EL MUNDO DE HUMBERTO
Documentary. 9 min. 2021
INTERESTS @ SFW
Short film festivals (worldwide)
Documentary festivals (worldwide)
Sales agents
Potential co-producers in Brazil, Argentina or Mexico
NICOLÁS ORTEGA BAQUERO
Koker Sinema is a Colombian film production company recently created and based in Medellin focused on independent cinema. Its first short film, Mundomalo, has received selections and recognitions in several national and international competitions. As a working group, they have been winners of FDC and other stimuli of cultural entities.
They are currently working on their next short films Matroncitas (Doc) and Mumi (Fic). They also have in development the feature films Los Necios and Conversaciones con la Ausencia.
MUNDOMALO
Fiction. 11 min. 2019
Short Film Market Pick
INTERESTS @ SFW
Festivals with a Latin American focus
Festivals with a focus on Children and Adolescents
Festivals with a focus on human rights
Potential Sales Agent
Distributors for festivals in Europe
Other screens: International television
CATALINA VASQUEZ SALAZAR
(Medellín, 1991) She has directed several short films including Recycling Memories (2010), documentary winner of the India Catalina Award for Best New Creator at the Cartagena International Film Festival 2011, Islas (2014), Cárcel (2018), participant in festivals such as DOK Leipzig, El Perro que Ladra, Malaga Film Festival, Colombian Film Festival in Buenos Aires, among others.
She is the producer of the animated short film Niebla, winning project of the FDC 2017 and currently in distribution.
NIEBLA
Animation. 10 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Animation, Latin-American and environmental-driven festivals
CAMILA BELTRÁN
Camila Beltrán, Colombian filmmaker and producer.
Her first short film Pedro Malheur, was screened on major international festivals, obtaining different mentions and awards, among them the Jury's mention at the Clermont Ferrand Festival in 2014. John Marr, her second film, was co-produced and broadcast by France 3. With this film, Camila was a guest at the Cinémathèque Française, in a cycle dedicated to emerging film talents in 2017.
In 2018, in the process of writing El día de mi bestia, her first feature film, she obtained financial support from the Normandy Region in France. Also, the following year, the project was laureate of the CECI (Center of cinematographic writings) residency of the Moulin d'Andé. In 2019, the project won the Proimágenes-Colombia production fund. In 2020, it won the Arte Kino award at the Latin American co-production forum of the San Sebastian International film festival.
Her latest short film Pacífico Oscuro was part of the official selection Pardi di domani, at the 73 Locarno Film Festival 2020, among other international festivals such as the Dhaka International film festival and national events such as the BOGOSHORTS where it obtained the award for Best Experimental Short Film and Best Editing in the Colombian Competition.
In parallel, since 2018, Camila has developed activities as a producer inside Felina Films, a company founded by herself, which defends singular Latin-American proposals.
The shooting of her first feature film in Bogota is scheduled for 2021.
PACÍFICO OSCURO
Short Film Market Pick
Experimental. 10 min. Colombia, France
INTERESTS @ SFW
Contact with programmers and Filmmakers
Film festival Heads of Industry
Co-Production Partners
WIP
Museums and Art Spaces
Distributors, Sales agents
INFO
LALY MALAGÓN VARGAS
Filmmaker from Colombia. Social communicator and journalist from the Universidad del Norte. She began her career in 2014 as a non-fiction serial editor for TV and consolidated herself as director of documentary short films. In 2019 she studied film direction at Congo Films School, awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture. There she directs her first fiction shortfilm, Los Pájaros de Sara. She has directed some documentaries shortfilms as Las mujeres del Buen Pastor and Trenzar y vivir, and regional TV shows as Veteranos.
LOS PÁJAROS DE SARA
Fiction. 6 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Shorts films festivals, festivals about gender and human rights issues, female film-making festivals, potential exhibitors oriented to social issues
JUAN MANUEL VITERI
Mopamopa Films is an independent audiovisual production company based in Colombia focused on auteur cinema. With the interest of exploring alternative views and diverse themes such as affective relationships and how they can be represented in the cinematic language. With a relatively new trajectory, Mopamopa films started as a quest and being faithful to it we have produced two short films, the first one Deja Sentí directed by Juan Manuel Viteri and finished in 2019 and the second one Paréntesis de Madre. Both projects are truthful to our vision and address the issues of our time. Juan Manuel Viteri is co-founder, director and creative producer of Mopamopa Films. He has worked in film projects as Art Director of the short film Love (directed by Mexican director Guillermo Iván Dueñas), later in the production department of the feature film El Páramo of the production company Rhayuela Films. Natalia Viteri is a professional in Film and Television Direction and Production, her work has focused on the development of audiovisual content and pedagogical processes with a social focus. She has worked as Director of Photography in film projects such as Diálogos de la ceniza, a short film currently in development. She is currently co-founder and creative director of Mopamopa Films.
PARÉNTESIS DE (MADRE)
Fiction. 5 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
In Mopamopa Films we believe in the importance of virtuality with the expansion and globalization of the film market. The shaping of new languages and access to any geographical area without limitation. The opening and expansion are the current path. We are looking for business opportunities in cinema and new media. We are in search of both Hispanic and foreign co-productions through different festivals and audiovisual markets like The European Film Market, Guadalajara Film Market, Toronto International Film Festival , Berlin International Film Festival, Doc Outlook-International Market (DOCM), American Film Market. We are looking for independent cinema distribution companies and also streaming platforms to develop VOD content.
ANA MARÍA FERRO
Ana María Ferro Gómez, audiovisual producer graduated from the Agustiniana University, her debut film is the short documentary Verde Manzana made in 2016 within the framework of the Documentary Research and Production Workshop. Her main focus has been on the construction of scripts such as Paper Birds, Pigs and Je Suis Paula. Her focus is on the work of political and social discourse through which the country passes and his approach to production is the documentary format.
PIGS
Fiction. 21 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
CAMILO SUPELANN
We are a Colombian animation studio, focused on the creation of 2d and 3d content. We exist to create valuable, high quality and high impact content in the advertising and film market worldwide.
OVERLATE
Animation. 2 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Co-productions with Latin-American, North American and European countries
To connect with film distributors
Productions companies interested in our work
Films in there finishing stages or films/ companies that need animation services
NATALIA BERNAL
Natalia Bernal is a director and producer specialized in the production of audiovisual content for and with children. Natalia is the director and producer of the documentary short film Ramon (2020), which has had a successful festival run, participating in more than 18 festivals to date. Natalia and her colleague Giselle Geney created the production company Pescadito Films, which specialized in children’s live-action content.
Pescadito Films’ productions include the multi-awarded fiction short film 3Feet (2018), which has received 13 awards in film festivals around the world. Natalia and Giselle are currently developing and co-directing the children's documentary series #Poderosas.
RAMÓN
Documentary. 10 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Sales Agents
Documentary Film Festivals
Children´s Film Festivals and Latin-American content Film Festivals
Educational Programmes
OTT Platforms
MARÍA ROJAS & ANDRÉS JURADO
La Vulcanizadora is a film production and creation laboratory founded in 2017 by filmmakers, artists, and producers, María Rojas Arias and Andrés Jurado. Consolidated as a company in 2019. La Vulcanizadora is devoted to experimental creative projects and to explore various models of production and collaboration to make films, in a commitment to cooperate with processes of historical memory and to give life to narratives that go against the grain of the official stories or canonized by cultural circuits and by official institutions. We propose an intense dialogue between disciplines supported by a practice articulated with the artist's craft and experimentation with film and hybrid formats. We incorporate methods from performance and theater and contemporary art, generating critical approaches to ethnographic devices and visual anthropology. We embrace archival work and audiovisual counter-archive, where the cinematic is at the base of our operations. We are interested in the stories about radical otherness, the efforts to understand the processes of colonization and decolonization, examining their representations very closely transgenerationally.
We have produced projects such as El Renacer del Carare by Andrés Jurado, winner of the Special Mention of the Flash competition premiered at the FIDMarseille 2020 (Marseille Festival of Documentary Film), The short film Fu, winner of the jury award for the best experimental documentary in Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul 2018 and presented at different international festivals. We are currently working on Open Mountain de Maria Rojas, which this year participated in the Short Form at the Berlinale Talents Germany and received the fund for the creation of the Prince Claus Fund NextGen (Holland) as well as the Winner of the Fund for the Making of Documentary Short Film of the FDC. In production is Welcome Interplanetary Conquerors and Sidereal Space by Andrés Jurado, winner of the Grant for audiovisual creation with archive from IDArtes 2020, also from his project HeadCutter, winner of the Development of documentary project fund. Cinematographic Development Fund of Colombia. 2020. Co-produces the Yvuuhza Okaina project by the filmmaker Ferney Iyokina Gittoma (La Chorrera, Amazonas) Winner of the Fund for making a documentary short film: Regional stories. FDC Colombia 2020.
EL RENACER DEL CARARE
Experimental documentary. 21 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Contact with programmers snd Filmmakers
Film festival Heads of Industry
Co-Production Partners
Interest for re-make and Music rights
Alternatives for Filmmakers
Communities for Filmmaking
Political Engagement
WIP
Diversity
Museums and Art Spaces
NATHALIA VARELA CASTILLO
Calivé Films is a production company from Cali, Colombia that emerged from friendship and collective work in 2016. Since then we have made several short films, video clips and photographs. Our most outstanding work that has participated in national and international festivals is: Penumbra, mi amor (2017), El eco del silencio (2019) and Senescencia (2020). We are currently in the development of our first feature film titled Espejo.
SENESCENCIA
Fiction. 26 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Our short film Senescencia is interested in the market of Latin American festivals, film festivals on aging, film festivals with social themes, festivals on human rights of adults, film festivals made by women, university film festivals and festivals for short films.
INFO
julio54321@gmail.com
RICARDO PEREA
Ricardo Perea and Julio Lamaña have been working together in Colombia since 2015 in the documentary series Untitled. His works have a strong formal charge through the editing work between sound and image. Following these premises, they are finishing their first documentary feature film Before A Dark Mirror.
SIN TÍTULO. QUINTO MOVIMIENTO
Documentary 19 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
We are interested in potential sales agents for both our short films and our next feature film. We are also interested in contacting curators of Latin American film festivals
CÉSAR SÁNCHEZ
Sentire Films is a film production company covering fiction movies as well as creative animations. Our mission is to bring to life impactful stories related to magic, mysticism and nature. We aim to develop a unique voice by tackling cultural topics rated to Colombia's five geographic regions.
César Sánchez is one of the main founders of this company. With an experienced team of top industry professionals, the filmmaker directed The Dark Moor, a mystery thriller that participated in international festivals.
As for Eliana Nino, the co-founder and director of the production house, she is currently developping an adventure fantasy family project Semillas with a Spanish co-producer. Together, they decided to embark on a new journey with Las voces del Magdalena that is currently under development.
LA SOMBRA EN LA NIEBLA
Fiction. 14 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Participation in international thriller or horror festivals.
Distribution on various platforms
To create alliances with potential international co-producers for future projects
CAMILO LONDOÑO HERNÁNDEZ
A Colombian collective that mixes different images to make projects between cinema and contemporary art. Their first short film, Seven Nights Sonnet, has been part of the official selection of Seattle Latino Film Festival (US), Omovies Film Festival (IT), and Buenos Aires International Film Festival (ARG). Besides, the video-film Los ojos de la Medusa was exhibited in Panama and will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (COL). In 2021, the video-installation Imperfect Future will be exhibited in Colombia, Costa Rica, the USA, and Spain.
Currently, they are working on two documentaries: the short film La grieta, in post-production; and the feature film Echo & Narcissus, produced by La Ventana Films and was part of Residencias Walden 2020.
SONETO DE LAS SIETE NOCHES
Experimental. 11 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
INFO
info@kinotov.com
ALEJANDRO ORJUELA ÁLVAREZ
KINOTOV is a Colombian audiovisual production company, based in the municipality of Madrid, Cundinamarca.
With 12 years of experience in the film sector, it was born with the motivation to lead audiovisual projects in the Department of Cundinamarca.
Its projects have been exhibited and awarded in important film festival in Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.
It currently leads and co-produces documentary, animation, interactive, expanded, virtual reality, augmented reality, transmedia and new media projects.
SPACEMAN: BAD GRAVITY
Animation. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Potential co-producers in Latin America
Production and post-production services
CRISTINA MOTTA
She is both member and cofounder of the cinematographic collective Gallito Films that has produced several experimental and documentary short films.
SUPERFICIES
Documentary. 10 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Latin-American Film Festivals
DANIEL CUERVO BERNAL
A pie cine is a young production company based in Bogotá (Colombia) and available to work remotely from anywhere. It’s focused on the development and production of films. Also is a postproduction lab managing on set data, editing, color grading and finishing. Currently it’s working on the distribution of it first short film LUV YA, premiered at the 18 Bogotá Short film Festival – BOGOSHORTS. They are also developing THAW, a fiction short film and their first feature film TWO TRAVELLING TOGETHER.
TE AMX
Fiction. 10 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Film funds
Potential co-producers in Scandinavia or Asia
Latin-American producers
Contact with programmers
FRANK BENÍTEZ
EL TRAJE DE KARINA
Fiction. 20 min. 2021
INTERESTS @ SFW
Sales agents and distributors
Worldwide festivals
LGTBQI festivals
JOHNNIER ARISTIZÁBAL SANTANA
Screenwriter and film researcher with 10 years of professional experience on different kind of short formats: video clip, documentary, fiction, experimental cinema and virtual reality. He is the script-doctor of the short films 3Pies (2018) and Vendo Pipas (2019), both films selected at multiple film festivals around the world. He has two projects ongoing: Diego, el cantante, a feature film for children and youth writing with Giselle Geney. The second one is an experimental lab on model making for film coordinated with Diana Soler and Los espacialistas. The Last Sun Rays is his second short film as director.
LOS ÚLTIMOS RAYOS DEL SOL
Fiction. 19 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Sales agent
To connect with festival programmers
Latin-American film festivals
LGTBIQ+ film festivals
Genre film festivals
INFO
JOSÉ LUIS JIMÉNEZ
José Luis and Miguel Jiménez are the founders of SHARPBALL, an entertainment company that produces content inspired by Colombian culture. From graphic novels to animated shorts, they have recently ventured as writers, directors and producers into fiction films that convey their particular vision of reality. Directors of the animated short film El Rapto, which has received several international awards as the official selection of Animamundi in Brazil; Una Noche de Estas, a short film that won the IDARTES Fiction Short Film Award (2017) co-produced by Sebastián Patiño. Directors of the video clip nominated for the Latin Grammy 2019 for Best Long Form Music Video, Hotel de los Encuentros de Draco Rosa. Currently, his first feature film GUAYABO is in post-production. Authors and illustrators of the celebrated Colombian graphic novels Los Once and El salado.
UNA NOCHE DE ESTAS
Fiction. 15 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
In the framework of the market we are interested in contacting potential sales agents for the short film, European and American festivals with urban, social and musical themes, and VOD platforms.
NATALIA LEMUS MEJÍA
UNA VIDA SIN TI
Fiction. 19 min. 2019
INTERESTS @ SFW
Independent latinamerican and international film festivals, festivals for new filmmakers, short film festivals
Networking, production and animation/ VFX companies or studios
WIP, Screenplay labs and film fund programs
NATALIA ROMERO JAIMES
Colombian Producer graduated in Film and Television from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá. She has worked for 5 years as a producer of newscasts, commercials and music videos. She has also produced the short film Alzadas en Letras, winner of the Best Colombian Documentary Short Film at the Bogotá Short Film Festival-BOGOSHORTS (2015) and the documentary short film Volver con la pandilla, which is beginning its festival circuit. In addition, she is in the development stage of the documentary feature film Soy porque somos.
VOLVER CON LA PANDILLA
Documentary. 15 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Connect with film festival programmers for documentary short films
Connect with sales agents, distributors and/or streaming platforms
Post-production labs for documentary short film
Networking
GIORGIO CAPUTO
Milagrosa Media is an audiovisual production house specialized in creating commercials, branded content, music videos and short films.
WORLD MADE META
Fiction. 10 min. 2020
INTERESTS @ SFW
Co-producers and sales agents for our original content in film/series