LAND AND SHADE

He was born in Colombia in 1987. He graduated with honors from the Universidad del Valle’s School of Social Communications (Cali, Colombia) and the screenplay for La tierra y la sombra was his graduate thesis. The screenplay went on to become his first feature film and premiered at the 2015 Cannes Festival’s Critics’ Week, after receiving support from a great number of Colombian and international foundations. Before he shot Land and Shade, he shot two short films and he worked as an assistant director to Oscar Ruiz Navia οn his film Los hongos de Oscar (Jury Special Prize at the Rotterdam IFF 2009), and as an assistant producer on his film El vuelco del cangrejo (FIPRESCI Award at the 2010 Berlinale) by the same director.