Yovanny Betancur-Santa

Universidad de Caldas

Columbia / Canada

Doctor of music from the University of Montreal specializing in contemporary music under the direction of the Canadian flutist Lise Daoust. Recognized for his showiness and discipline, he has been awarded scholarships for excellence throughout his training, awarded by the Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Higher and Postdoctoral Studies of the University of Montreal. Awarded for the best performance at the Stockhausen Academy Festival (Kurten, Germany, 2011).

Jaime Cesar Espinosa Bonilla

Colombia

Social communicator. Universidad del Valle in 1995, with studies specializing in audiovisual practices from the same university, professor of the dept. Visual Design from the University of Caldas. Student in degree work of the Master's Degree in Design and Interactive Creation of the University of Caldas. Director, screenwriter and film producer. Director of the Laboratory of Mobile Image of the University of Caldas Helena (2008) 80´ Fiction - Resurrection (2010) Fiction - Everyday Life and Memory (2013) Expanded Documentary - Las Niñas de la Guerra (2014) Documentary in animation.

Daniel Mayorquin

Colombia

He has graduated from the University of Caldas since 2015 with a Master's degree in Plastic Arts, during his time at the academy he developed artistic projects under different engraving techniques. The artist recreates crowds in contemporary circumstances, many of the situations are captured in Manizales but is presented in the other cities of the country, this type of proposal allowed him to participate in prestigious events at a national level; In 2014 he participated in Regional Image 8 with a series of engravings exhibited at the Banco de la Republica in Medellín, that same year he participated in the 2nd International Biennial of Mural and Popular Art in Cali, where he explored expanded engraving producing a work whose Dimensions are 1.20 x 9.60 meters, it is installed in the pedestrian tunnel of the Cali transport terminal. Text taken from www.egresados.ucaldas.edu.co

Stephanie Marianne Teixido Guzmán

Mexico
UNAM

Mexican photographer and video artist. His work revolves around the problem of the Mexican social reality expressed in video art. His work explores the aesthetic and political possibilities of cultural appropriation through programming languages.

Juan Jose Velasquez

Colombia

He studied graphic design and later Audiovisual Communication at the University of Antioquia, which allows him in his academic process to work on some video clips, direct the documentary project 'Rubí entre carbon', winner of the -Antioquia to see you better- award in 2012.

Miguel Correa

Colombia
University of Antioquia

Audiovisual and Multimedia Communicator from the University of Antioquia. He has participated as director and scriptwriter of one (1) short film and one (1) transmedia project. He has participated in the Photography department of three (3) short films. One of them winner of FDC in the category -Documentary Short Film-. He was also the producer and editor of 'Metamorfosis', a short film that won a Special Mention at the -19 Latin American Festival of Video and Audiovisual Arts- in Rosario, Argentina.

Natali Guilombo

Colombia
University of Antioquia

Student of the last semester of the undergraduate course in Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication at the University of Antioquia. Certified in English as a Second Language (ESL) from Suffolk County Community College of New York. Audiovisual producer in fiction, documentary and experimental projects, one feature film and six short films. Assistant director and now he will direct his first short film with Reminiscence.

Ricardo Arce

Colombia www.vimeo.com/animarce

Associate Professor at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Founding member of ASIFA Colombia. Graphic Designer from the National University, Specialist in Television from the Javeriana University and Master in Aesthetics and Art History from the UJTL. Book co-author Animation in Colombia until the end of the 80s.

ASIFA

Colombia www.asifacolombia.org 

Colombian chapter of ASIFA -International Association of Animated Films-. It works for the encouragement, development and promotion of animation. Promotes opportunities for animators and their environment to share information and network globally. It ensures the existence and support of the rights of the animators, and animation as a social, academic and cultural engine.