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About: Please tell us about your self. Some of our programs have benefits for art workers - please tell us if you are an artist and mention the most recent work/venue/space/residency where you have worked/developed your practice.: I am a Colombian born filmmaker who came to New York in 1995 to continue my film studies at The New School for Social Research.I directed edited and photographed two short films
Derail and Except my soul…
Derail who won Kodak Cinematography Award and the First Place Audience Award at The New Haven Film Festival and the Bogen Tri-pod Award at The 19th Annual New School Invitational Student Film Festival
Except my soul…was awarded at the “V Festival Internacional de cortometrajes "El Espejo”, Bogotá Colombia Best film - Best director - Best cinematography
I worked for a few years with independent filmmaker Alan Berliner and Photographed and edited a lot of short films and videos. I worked on some feature films as script supervisor.
In 2006 I moved to Puerto Rico where I worked as editor and cinematographer for literature and art documentaries.
I recently finished Luminescence, an experimental film about light, that was granted by the Jerome foundation.