Maria Paula Jimenez Trujillo

Colombia

Film and television producer graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Master's degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Documentary film director, producer of fiction, documentary and transmedia audiovisual content. Among which stand out the documentary "El Valle de las Tristezas" (2014), winner in the 17th International Documentary Film Festival of Bogota and participant in several festivals around the country, the short film "Los Ríos" (2015), being this official selection in about seven festivals nationwide, the documentary "La Vida en Ruinas" (2015), official selection at the Latin American Film Festival of Sao Paulo, executive producer of the short films Centauros, directed by Mauricio Villa (2020) and Antes de las cosas, directed by Mateo Vallejo (2020), where she is also editor.

In 2019 she was part of the Laboratorio Desde el río, taught by Marta Andreu of Walden Residencies, where she made the short film Río Abajo with the support of the Prince Claus Fund, which premiered at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín in early 2019. Director of the documentary La Roña, winner of the IDARTES 2017 documentary filmmaking grant and participant of the itinerant documentary creation residency WALDEN.  Teacher and workshop leader in different institutions and academic spaces, such as the Politécnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid, the Instituto Metropolitano de Educación and the complementary education project for children of the Centro Audiovisual de Medellín.