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- Award winning, Colombian-born actress and model Ximena Duque first appeared on screen on the second season of Protagonistas de Novela, a reality show which offered a telenovela role to its winners. Ximena found her calling there, as she went on to star in more than 20 TV series and novelas. Among her most memorable performances are lead roles in Corazón Valiente, La Fan and Clarita, and supporting roles in Days of Our Lives and, most recently, Queen of the South. Known for her vivacious personality and sultry looks.
- Actress
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- Soundtrack
Greeicy Rendón was born on 30 October 1992 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. She is an actress and composer, known for Witches Girl (2013), Savage Rhythm (2022) and Primera Dama (2011).- Director
- Actor
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Carlos Mayolo was born on 10 September 1945 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He was a director and actor, known for La mansión de Araucaima (1986), The Vampires of Poverty (1978) and Carne de tu carne (1983). He was married to Beatriz Caballero. He died on 3 February 2007 in Bogota, Colombia.- Director
- Producer
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Oscar Ruiz Navia is a director, producer, and founder of the film production company Contravia Films, known for Siembra (2015), Los hongos (2014), Solecito (2013), La Sirga (2012) and El vuelco del cangrejo (2009).
He is one of the leading voices of the contemporary Colombian film industry. His works as director and producer have been domestically and internationally distributed, as well as selected in major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, San Sebastian, and Rotterdam, among others.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
José Miguel Ortegón, professionally known as "Sr Ortegon," is a respected independent "Production Music" Producer and Composer hailing from Cali, Colombia. With a Grammy Latino nomination, a prestigious Mark Award, and membership in the Television Academy (Emmy), Sr Ortegon is a notable figure in the world of production music.
For the past two decades, Sr Ortegon's contributions to Latin and Tropical production music have set industry standards, serving the needs of film, television, video games, and advertising through renowned music libraries.
His extensive portfolio includes notable works on projects such as Cobra Kai, Terminator: Salvation, Rambo: Last Blood, Spider Man: Into the Spider-verse (an Oscar-winning masterpiece), Lady Bird (an Oscar nominee), Mechanic: Resurrection, and The Simpsons, among others.
Drawing inspiration from his extensive travels across Europe and Latin America, Sr Ortegon infuses his production music with a unique touch, influenced by a diverse range of musical styles.
Awards:
2017. The Mark Awards (The Production Music Association) - Winner of Best Production Music Track - World - Hollywood, USA 2012. Cristal Festival - New Talent Category - Crans Montana, Swiss Nominations:
2023. The Mark Awards (The Production Music Association) - Nominated for Best Latin Track and Best Use in a Scripted TV Series 2022. The Mark Awards (The Production Music Association) - Nominated for Best Latin Track and World/International Track of the Year - Los Angeles, USA 2021. The Mark Awards (The Production Music Association) - Nominated for Best Latin Track - Hollywood, USA 2016. The Production Music Awards - Nominated for Best Use of Production Music in Television Factual - London, UK 2016. Music Week - Sync Awards - Nominated for Best Sync / Film - London, UK 2013. Latin Grammy Awards - Nominated for Best Tropical Fusion Album - Las Vegas, USA Sr Ortegon embodies the blend of artistry and talent within José Miguel Ortegón, known as "Sr Ortegon," in the world of production music.- Also known as "El Tino", he was born in Tulúa, Valle del Cauca. His career began in 1988, when he joined Cúcuta Deportivo, where he played until 1990. Then he joined Atlético Nacional and a year later he was hired by América de Cali. In 1992, he was signed by the Italian Parma FC where his performance led him to be proposed for the Golden Ball. In 1996, he joined Newcastle United where he had a great season, but due to an injury in his right knee he had to leave the game for several months. In 2000, he started playing for Palmeiras in Brazil until Atletico Nacional bought his rights. In 2003, Universidad de Chile club needed a player of trajectory and signed Asprilla who proved successful. After Chile "El Tino" returned to Colombia to play for Cortuluá, his hometown team. The match between Cortuluá and Millonarios was the last match he played as a professional. In 2004, he was signed by the Argentinean Estudiantes de la Plata, but only played two games, due to a knee injury that put an end to his career. His farewell match of took place on July 4, 2009, with the participation of great figures of Colombian soccer.
- Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
Victoria Góngora was born on 2 February 1971 in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. She is an actress, known for Yo amo a Paquita Gallego (1997), Las aguas mansas (1994) and Retratos (2003).- Actor
- Casting Department
John Alex Castillo was born on 17 July 1977 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He is an actor, known for Órbita 9 (2017), What Lucia Saw (2022) and Dog Eat Dog (2008).- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Lisandro Duque Naranjo was born on 30 October 1943 in Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He is a director and writer, known for Los niños invisibles (2001), Visa USA (1986) and Los actores del conflicto (2008).- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Ramiro Meléndez was born on 23 June 1941 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He is a director and producer, known for El coyote: Mente diabolica (1999), El agujero indiscreto (1993) and Venganza mortal (1995).- Director
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- Actor
In 2003 he began his studies in Visual Arts at the Universidad del Valle in Cali Colombia. In that season he made his first two short films, an experimental project called "La Delivery" (2005) and another entitled "La Vuelta" (2006) where he began the exploration of his narrative style from the visual, as well as his austere production methodologies; exploring from the beginning her favorite genre, the thriller. "La Vuelta" generated good comments among the public of local and Latin American festivals; that allowed him to make a longer experimental film (1 hour) making the medium-length film "In Case of Emergency" (2007). In that same year he traveled to Buenos Aires Argentina to study film directing, there he made a short film entitled "Complejo de Gato" (2008), this time exploring the genre of drama with hints of comedy, this short film allowed him to win his first prize in a film festival, in a space created for Colombian filmmakers based in Buenos Aires. In that 2008 in Buenos Aires Argentina, together with his work team he shot a feature film called "Los Dientes de Tenedor" which has not yet been released. In 2012 he finished his studies in Social Communication and in 2014 he made another feature film entitled "Rogelio", this time in Jamundí Colombia, once again exploring dramatic comedy and working with natural actors from that municipality. In 2019 he began a new stage based in Bogotá Colombia, he made and exhibited his fourth short film "Ada" (2019), a thriller that was selected in several national and international festivals, in 2021 he made a new short film, a drama entitled "Aporía ", which explores the midlife crisis of a young woman who is about to turn thirty without having achieved life expectancies. In that same year, Juan Manuel Buenaventura made a short documentary entitled "Oscar" in which he reveals the life of a man who has had to stop his dreams and projects due to cancer. In 2022 he made a medium-length film, creating a prequel to the short film "Ada", but this time presenting the life of the antagonist of that short in a more intense way, titling it "Edu", a new thriller for his filmography. He is currently developing a miniseries, another 8-part thriller entitled "The Analyst" that is expected to begin filming at the end of 2022. Parallel to his career as a filmmaker, Juan Manuel Buenaventura works with his audiovisual content and advertising agency It's Done Media, consulting on content marketing, making corporate videos for private and state-owned companies, constantly carrying out scriptwriting. , production design, photography, voiceover, editing and post production of audiovisual pieces for a corporate and advertising market. In this way, JMB has managed to exercise its audiovisual production capabilities in the artistic and cinematographic spheres, as well as in the institutional and commercial spheres, making synergy in both elements, adding aesthetic bases to corporate pieces and executing advertising and marketing elements to its cinematographic productions, always achieving a interesting diffusion of his independent projects with his production company Culpable films.- Jeison Hurtado Moreno was born on 21 April 1990 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He is an actor, known for La Misma Maldita Historia, Underneath Inside and Emotionless (2018).
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He began his studies at the San Antonio de los Baños School in Cuba, and later performed a career in Film and Television Direction at the Eliseo Subiela School in Buenos Aires - Argentina, where he studied Cinematography, Editing and Executive Production. His first short film as a director "El Juego" was the winner of several international awards. In Argentina he directed the series "Illustrators" for Canal á -. He also toured the field of video clips filming artists such as Kevin Johansen and Andrea Echeverri. In 2015 he returned to Colombia, he was part of the cinematography team for the series "Déjala Morir" on Telecaribe, about the life of Niña Emilia, winner of several India Catalina awards in 2018. In 2017 he joined the documentary area of Telepacifico Channel, directing and taking photography for the "Buena Letra" Series for which he was nominated for an India Catalina Award for best cinematography. Later he directed the documentary "El Hombre Universal" that narrated the life of the Chocoano writer Arnoldo Palacios, being nominated for an India Catalina Award for best documentary, and for which it was part of the Official Selection of the Cartagena International Film Festival FICCI 2019. He was winner of the India Catalina Award in 2021 as best cinematographer for the documentary "Zapata el Gran Putas", a documentary directed by Marino Aguado that pays tribute to the life and work of the writer Manuel Zapata Olivella. His last documentary as director: "Nereo - Portrait without Permiso" was an Official Selection of the FICCI 2021. He was cinematographer of the documentary "El Viaje de la Marimba" directed by Marino Aguado, his last project as director was "Santa Escritura" a series Telepacífico documentary that was filmed in Mexico and that delves into the different meanings of death in parallel with those of our country, through literary works by great Mexican exponents. His experience in recent years demonstrates his great interest in the construction of memory in Colombian territory.- Visual Effects
Christor Córdoba was born on 3 February 1999 in Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He is known for La Reina del Sur (2011), UFO Factory (2024) and The Initiated (2023).- Jorge Isaacs was born on 1 April 1837 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He was a writer, known for María (1938), La María (1922) and María (1972). He was married to Felisa González Umaña. He died on 17 April 1895 in Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia.
- Actress
- Music Department
Marbelle was born on 19 January 1980 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. She is an actress, known for Marido a Sueldo (2007), Amor sincero (2010) and Planchando el despecho: Él me mintió (2018).- Music Department
Junior Jein was born on 3 July 1982 in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia. Junior is known for Dirty Hands (2014). Junior died on 14 June 2021 in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Columbia.- Adrian Abonce was born on 19 April 1970 in Sevilla, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
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Jairo Pinilla is an outstanding Colombian film director, considered the father of horror, suspense and science fiction in Colombia. That is why he is called Colombian Ed Wood or Colombian Steven Spielberg since he has used special effects never before used in Colombian cinema.
Born in Cali in 1944, he has lived in Bogotá since he was 4 years old. From an early age he felt attached to the cinema. He studied Electronic Engineering at the Industrial University of Popayán specialized in electromechanical computers in Mexico with the North American company Burroughs Enterprise, in his spare time he visits the Churubusco studios where he meets the 60s Mexican film stars forging friendships with various personalities from the Mexican cinema and knows first-hand all the technical and artistic part of the cinema of that time, he decided to return to Colombia and make films, his first short film "Que mago" he made with reversible Black and White film and without sound, where we found for the first time time in Colombia special effects in a short film; Making this film, Pinilla begins to put his ideas into practice, then writes and directs "Date with the Times" A Co-production of Asofilms and San Pablo Films, the short film was awarded in Milan Italy.
His first two feature films were: Funeral siniestro (1977) one of the first movies of the horror and suspense genre in Colombia and Area maldita (1980) where he ventures into the police action genre and is the first to incorporate special effects in the shootings; He also filmed an adventure and suspense film with special effects: T-O: Triángulo de oro - 'La isla fantasma' (1985) shot in international locations (Panama), on the high seas, first colombian film dubbed in English and fighting scenes with martial arts, explosions and earthquakes, being this way the most successful of his career. On regressions and psychological horror stories: Extraña Regresión (1985), he has made several shorts of the comedy genre and suspense comedy among others.
The first film in digital format in Colombia began filming in 2005: ¿Porqué lloran las campanas? (2005) filmed in Medellín.
His style is characterized by taking natural actors. It is a characteristic feature to include cameos of himself in his own films, another characteristic is to double the dialogues to English and Spanish in all his plot productions.
The Spanish magazine "Zona de Obras" launched in its Issue 49 of 2008 a section dedicated to Ibero-American cinema with an interview with Jairo Pinilla that included "27 hours with death for the first time on DVD the mythical film by Colombian director Jairo Pinilla".
He was the guest of honor at the 46th edition of the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia Sitges 2013, in the Brigadoon section in collaboration with the Colombian film festival Zinema Zombi Fest allowed to present a retrospective of Jairo Pinilla's films representing Colombia in the Genre of horror and suspense.
In 2006 the film director Ciro Guerra carried out his thesis work on Jairo Pinilla, a work he called: Sinister documentary.
Since 2013 One Man Band Studios an audiovisual company, has collected information for the creation of "La Pesadilla de Pinilla" a project that is online through the YouTube platform about the life and work of Jairo Pinilla.- Director
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Juan Sebastian Valencia is a Colombian writer and director, born on February 27 - 1985 in Cali. MFA in Filmmaking (Cum Laude) and Bachelor of Business Administration. At age 23 he wrote and directed his first feature film "Poker" produced by MadLove and distributed by United International Pictures (UIP). Juan Sebastian is the author of 4 books including; "El revés de lo derecho" (2008), "Utopia el lugar de las palabras" (2010), "El eco de un susurro ½ silencioso" (2012), "Circus Show; El Circo del Emperador" (2015). He also has credits as a writer, director, editor and producer of films, theatre and TV commercials- Isabella Gardeazábal was born on 2 April 1982 in Tuluá, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. She is an actress, known for Julius (1999), ¿Por qué diablos? (1999) and Sin límites (1998).
- Gustavo Álvarez Gardeázabal was born on 31 October 1945 in Tuluá, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He is a writer, known for A Man of Principle (1984), El bazar de los idiotas (1983) and El divino (1987).
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Felipe Bergaño was born in 1990 in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Felipe is a director and writer, known for Juan Meisen has died (2016), El Gran Cifuentes (2014) and Juan Meisen ha muerto (2015).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Auro Sónico is a singer-songwriter, producer, writer and Colombian actor based in the Dominican Republic. He is known for being the creator and vocalist of the band of Dominican Rock Auro & Clemt with which he obtained in 2006 the prize to Best Rock Group in the Cassandra (Soberano) Awards. He worked in radio and served as Creative Director of Zulu Radio, the first Indie music station in the Dominican Republic, promoting local art, alternating with his musical groups, Los Violetas and Auro & Clemt. In November of 2016 Auro released the album Disco Lágrima, its first production like soloist.- Editorial Department
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Joan Poggio was born on 23 November 1975 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He is a cinematographer, known for #WildforLife Conservation Champions (2018), Gun Runners (2015) and It's Us (2013).- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Juan Ospina was born on 17 November 1999 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He is a producer, known for Selfie (2021). He has been married to Manpreet Kaur Bitta since 31 May 2022.- Jhon Solís was born on 3 October 2004 in Guacarí, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
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- Producer
Natalia Imery Almario was born in 1990 in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Natalia Imery is a director and writer, known for Dopamina (2019) and Longing Souls (2020).