Profiles: Claudia Pedraza | Proimágenes Colombia

Claudia Pedraza brings good energy, order and fluidity to the teams lucky enough to have enjoyed her work as assistant director. She has worked on more than 20 feature film productions including her most recent job on Gerardo Herrero's Crimen con vista al mar produced by  RCN Cine and Ennovva Films (Colombia) and Tornasol Films and Foresta Films (Spain).
 
She began her career as assistant director for six years in advertising, commercials and television programming, working with directors like Oscar Azula, Jorge Navas, Carlos Gaviria and Juan Cristobal Cobo, developing projects for production companies like Avenida Films, República Films, Lamuvi, RCN Comerciales and RCN Televisión. She was assistant director for the CMO Producciones series Bazurto, Sony Entertainment Television's Los caballeros las prefieren brutas and was program director for the RCN Televisión program Se le tiene.
 
As second assistant director on feature films, she began with Antonio Dorado's El rey (2003), Francisco Norden's El trato (2004), Dago García Producciones' Mi abuelo, mi papá y yo (2005) and Dago García and J.C. Velasquez's Las cartas del Gordo (2006). She went on to work as first assistant director for directors such as Carlos Moreno, on his films Todos tus muertos, El cartel de los sapos and ¡Qué viva la música!; with Juancho Cardona on his projects Domain, el testamento maya and Love Film Festival; with Ricardo Coral-Dorado on Postales colombianas and Ni te cases ni te embarques; with Gerardo Herrero on Crimen con vista al mar; Alessandro Angulo on Sanandresito; Felipe Martínez on Bluff; Camila Loboguerrero on Nochebuena; Iván Wild on Edificio Royal; Guillermo Calle on El arriero; Rafa Lara on La milagrosa; Alexander Giraldo on 180 segundos; Tom Schreiber on Doctor Aleman; Carlos Gaviria on Retratos en un mar de mentiras and with Mónica Borda on La vida "era" en serio.
 
She studied Social Communications at the Universidad del Valle where she graduated with honors in 2003. Her thesis laureate, La gracia de caer, was included in the official selection of the Informative Documentary Exhibit at the Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema and won Best Documentary at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's Equinox 2004 University Film Festival. She also studied Directing Actors, Film Directing and Documentary Filmmaking at the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and attended a Script Writing Workshop with Robert McKee and Creative Documentary Workshop with teachers from thhe Pompeu Fabra at the Universidad del Valle.
 
She later collaborated with Univalle's School of Social Communications and Universidad del Valle's television channel on research, writing and direction of the documentary film Entre sol y asfalta (2003), which earned her the Bonilla Aragon Journalism Prize and an award at the Andean Universities Film and Video Festival. The documentary was also selected for the International Documentary Exhibit's “Slices of Reality” category and for the Havana Latin American International Film Festival. She wrote, directed and produced El estado de las cosas in 2002, which won Best Experimental Video at the Cesar Awards and was selected for the Alucine Festival in Canada, the Alternative Exhibit at the Cartagena Film Festival and Argentina's Sueños Cortos Festival, among others.