GUESTS 19th INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL


  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Chiara Passa


    Italy

    Visual artist, Rome XXX-IV-MCMLXXIII. Studies: Artistic Lyceum, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome; Master in new audiovisual media at the Faculty of Modern Literature. He lived around. Right now I am living and working around and in Rome.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Manuel Garcia Silver


    Colombia

    Graphic designer, animator and illustrator from Bucaramanga, Colombia.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Consuelo Castillo


    Colombia

    Director of the Agency for the Promotion and Distribution of Latin American Cinema DOC:CO, whose objective is to design strategic routes for the distribution of cinema from the region in Colombia. Director of co-productions for 2.35 Digital and advisor for documentary projects at different international events.
  • Date
    June 15, 2020

    Juan Camilo Franco Jimenez


    Colombia

    Digital visual designer and student of visual arts at the University of Quindío, I have participated in sound level production at the festival of the image in charge of sound bridges, as well as in their workshops and this year I am a 3D modeler for the project "Am I alive ?” as well as research projects for the University of Quindío.
    Participate Exhibition Am I Alive?
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Claudia Angelica Reyes Sarmiento


    Colombia

    Graphic designer graduated from the National University of Colombia, Master in Aesthetics and Art History from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and Specialist in University Teaching from the Free University of Colombia. Professor at several universities in theoretical, research and workshop areas since the year 2000. She is currently Coordinator of the Theory and History of Graphic Design area in the Design Program at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, where she works full-time as an associate professor. Director of several research projects, author of articles, book chapters and speaker at national and international academic events. Member of the Board of Directors of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, as a representative of the professors between 2017 and 2019.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    angela gomez


    Colombia

    Social communicator from the Universidad del Valle with an emphasis on audiovisual production. He completed the Master's Degree in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Eva Valino


    Spain

    Trained in Barcelona and New Orleans, she is also a sound engineer graduated from EICTV, Cuba. He has worked in direct sound with directors of international prestige. In 2002, he won the Goya Award for Best Sound for his work in the film Te doy mis ojos by director Icíar Bollaín; also nominated in 2014 with the film Caníbal by director Manuel Martín Cuenca.
  • Date
    April 13, 2020

    Arturo Escobar


    Colombia / United States

    Arturo is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His main interests are: political ecology, ontological design, pluriversal studies and anthropology of development, social movements and technoscience.
  • Date
    May 16, 2020

    Barbara Santos


    Colombia

    Visual artist and independent researcher with a master's degree in Visual Arts, summons the collective chiasma.co & Cuenco de cera. His work resides at the intersection between the jungle, art and technology, through expanded dialogues as a form of co-creation, with the guidance of grandfathers and grandmothers from the Amazon.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Alejandro Jimenez, Carlos Adolfo Escobar Holguin, Cristina Sabogal


    Colombia

    "Stories of Venezuelan migrants" is part of the results of the research-creation project "Ruin as a concept for a visual narrative in a transmedia world. Views of Venezuelan immigrants in the city of Manizales"
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Gerylee Polanco


    Colombia

    Social Communicator who works in the cinematographic field in production, teaching and research. Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Cinematheque of the La Tertulia Museum.
  • Date
    April 13, 2020

    Gladys Tzul Tzul


    Mayan / K'iche

    Gladys is a Maya K’iche sociologist and public intellectual, specializing in the study of indigenous forms of government and land ownership in Guatemala. She is also the co-founder of the collective of indigenous women photographers "Con Voz Propia". Her practice and research work addresses the politics of desire and indigenous forms of communal politics.
  • Date
    May 16, 2020

    Ceci Arango


    Colombia

    Pioneer in art and design from the Colombian cultural identity, the fabric of peace and the projection of artisan work. Since 1990.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Diana Reyes, Richard Millán, Laura García and Santiago Espinosa


    Colombia

    We are a group of communicators interested in creation-research with sound and audiovisual languages, our headquarters is the University of Manizales. There three of us are professors at the School of Communication.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    David Quiroz


    Colombia

    He studied social communication and journalism at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Medellín and graduated with a master's degree in Audiovisual Writing from the Universidad del Magdalena. He is currently a partner at Árbol Visual SAS.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Ivan Gaona


    Colombia

    Filmmaker from the National University of Colombia. He was co-director of the series Laberinto (2011) for Caracol TV and Sony Pictures, and co-director of Maravillas de Colombia II (2014) for Laberinto Cine and Discovery Channel.
  • Date
    April 24, 2020

    Panoramic


    Spain

    Panorámic is the festival that has photography as the protagonist that is expressed in an expanded way through friendly disciplines such as cinema, video, installations and other contemporary artistic practices. A singular and unique cultural proposal.
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    Jeremy Oury & Antoine Briot


    France

    The ARCAAN collective was created in 2015, with the aim of promoting, supporting and stimulating research in the audiovisual and digital fields. Pioneered by sound designer Antoine Briot and digital artist Jeremy Oury, ARCAAN particularly encourages Image and Sound parallel writing processes.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Laura Lucia Serrano


    Colombia

    Visual artist and research professor of the audiovisual arts program of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga. MA in Illustration and Visual Communication from the University of Hertfordshire. His work has participated in cultural and academic exhibitions at regional, national and international levels. His line of research-creation is in the field of art for social transformation and inclusion in multidisciplinary projects.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Sebastian Munera


    Colombia

    Colombian artist and filmmaker. He has a master's degree in Plastic Arts from the National University of Colombia - Medellín Campus. His work stands out for its exploration of different media: from films and installations, to architectural interventions and editorial publications. His work has been exhibited in museums and film festivals.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Diego Canizal


    Spain / Colombia

    Screenwriter and consultant with 15 years of experience in writing, teaching and film criticism. He has worked as a scriptwriter for El Piedra (international premiere at the Ibero-American Festival of Huelva and Inaugural Film of Cinema in the Neighborhoods of FICCI 2019); and the projects Soy Feroz (FDC Stimulus for script 2015 and Ibermedia for Development 2016); Tumbadores (FondoCine Panamá 2017 and Ibermedia Desarrollo 2018); Desechable (FDC to Desarrollo de Animación 2019) and the documentary Nocaut, among others.
  • Date
    June 13, 2020

    Luis Fernando Medina


    Colombia

    Associate Professor. Faculty of Arts, School of Film and Television. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá campus). PhD in media arts and sciences and coordinator of the group :: open media production space.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Lluís Estopinán


    Spain

    Graduated in Fine Arts from the "Escola Massana" in Barcelona at the end of the 80s, since then he has not stopped working in painting, artistic installations and photography (digital and in analog processes) that he has exhibited regularly in galleries, museums and centers of art from Spain, but also from other countries such as France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina or Mexico.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Diego Blanco


    Colombia

    Social Communicator from the University of Boyacá (UB). He directs the film production company Tchunza Films SAS. He made the documentaries Cine de, en y para Boyacá (2014), and PANico del 67 (2015). He produces, writes and directs his first short documentary El Higo (2015).
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Santiago Rubio Lopez


    Colombia

    Visual designer and Master in Design and Interactive Creation. He has taught the Master's in Design and Interactive Creation, the Master's in Arts, the Department of Visual Design at the University of Caldas, the University of Research and Development UDI and the University of Pamplona (Norte de Santander). His projects address themes that relate image, sound and interaction from experimental proposals. He currently produces music and image for the projects Monster Cyclone, Ruido de Páramo, ShikiMan, among others. Explore interactive media from the image/sound relationship. It has been presented at different events with performative and installation proposals.
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    Iliana Hernandez Garcia


    Colombia

    Postdoctorate in Philosophy of Science from l'Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS: Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique / Sorbonne University, Paris-I. PhD in Aesthetics from the Sorbonne University, Paris-I. Magister in Aesthetics and Art Sciences from the Sorbonne University, Paris-I. Master in Aesthetics and Theory of Architecture from the School of Architecture of Paris-Villemin and Master in Architecture Projects from the same School. Architect from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Manuel Silva


    Colombia

    Professor and researcher at the School of Social Communication at the Universidad del Valle (Colombia). Social Communicator, Master in Philosophy and Doctor in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature. He was co-creator and coordinator of the Master's in Audiovisual Cultures at the Universidad del Valle.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    andres davila


    Colombia

    Andrés Dávila is an audiovisual producer and researcher. In 2013 he obtained a Master in Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, where he is currently doing a PhD.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Maria A. Martinez Wandurraga


    Colombia

    Colombia (1989). Master in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Master of Fine Arts from the Industrial University of Santander (UIS). Visual artist, illustrator and teacher. His work, mostly drawing, seeks to be visually attractive with an emotional and symbolic charge, through the use of the line, the point, unconventional supports and the absence of color in specific areas, he seeks to achieve this goal. His visual work is current in the artistic field of the region.
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    Raul Niño Bernal


    Colombia

    He is a Restorer of Movable Goods and with Postgraduate training as a Political Scientist. He is currently director of the Department of Aesthetics of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, also a professor at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Martin Groisman


    Argentina

    D. in Design from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), B.A. in Psychology (UBA). He is a professor and researcher in audiovisual media and interactive systems, and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU-UBA) and at the National University of the Arts (UNA). 
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Fabian Hernandez


    Colombia

    Director and assistant director. He has written and directed the short films: Mala maña (2015) Tras la montaña (2016) selected at various festivals around the world, and Golpe y censorship (2018) Los Mártires (2019), in post production.
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    michele lefreve


    Canada

    Michel Lefebvre is co-founding director of Agence TOPO, an arts center dedicated to the creation, production, and dissemination of projects at the intersection of visual arts, literature, and digital media.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Laura Castillo Beltran


    Colombia

    Colombian producer and director graduated in Film and TV from the National University of Colombia. Winner of the FDC in 2015 with her first animated short as a director, Tangible, premiered at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, and in 2018 as producer and screenwriter of the fiction short film SÍNTOMA. In 2016 she obtained the Idartes Grant to make two short films, Say Goodbye (fiction) and Ana (animation). Winner of the calls for Nuevos creadores and Nueva Mirada - Ministerio de Cultura and Señal Colombia in 2018. Executive producer of the film PIROTECNIA, a documentary premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2019. Producer and co-founder of the artistic collective El Astillero producciones.
  • Date
    June 11, 2020

    Sandra Suarez Quintero


    Colombia

    Graphic designer and Photography Specialist from the National University of Colombia. Specialist in University Teaching and Magister in Artistic Studies. He has combined teaching, research and creation work in different institutions. His work is framed within the theme of image and visual representation from its production and its possibilities in and for research, with projects around heritage and memory, archival practices, popular graphics and the history of photography.
  • Date
    April 29, 2020

    Joan Heemskerk


    Holland

    Joan Heemskerk (1968, Kaatsheuvel) studied photography at the St. Joost Academy in Breda before attending CADRE, the electronic arts laboratory at San Jose State University in California. In 1994 he started working together with Dirk Paesmans.
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    Julio Gaitan


    Colombia

    Director of the Center for Internet and Society -ISUR- and professor of constitutional law and history of law at the Universidad del Rosario. Master in Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and PhD in Research from the University of Lecce - Italy. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (2007, 2013, 2018), Assistant Magistrate and Associate Judge at the Colombian Constitutional Court.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Oliver Vodeb


    Australia

    He is an extra-disciplinary designer, pirate researcher, and educator. He is an academic at the RMIT School of Design in Melbourne, teaching on the Master of Communication Design. Oliver co-founded Memefest in 2002 and is the Principal Curator of the Memefest festival for Radical Design + Communication and facilitator of the international Memefest network. He is the author of Socially Responsive Communication (2008) and co-editor, with Nikola Janovic, of Demonstrating Relevance: Socially Responsive Communication Responsiveness, Theory, Practice, and Imagination (2010) and Debt to Intervene: Critical Lessons on Debt, Communication, Art and Theoretical Practice (2015).
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Wilson Arango


    Colombia

    Master in Documentary Film (Universidad del Cine, Argentina) and Master in Art. Director and producer of Animal Films. He has worked as a teacher and researcher at various universities in Medellín, Colombia. His short film “La madre de las madres” (14 min, 2016) had its world premiere in the official competition of the 31st Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
  • Date
    June 11, 2020

    Maria del Rosario Gutierrez


    Colombia / Chile

    Magister in Humanities with a mention in Art History from the Universidad del Desarrollo de Santiago de Chile. Degree in Visual Communication from the Universidad del Pacífico, Santiago de Chile. Professional Technologist in Graphic Design from Taller Cinco, Bogotá. Since 1986 she has been dedicated mainly to teaching both in Colombia and in Santiago de Chile.
  • Date
    April 29, 2020

    Dylan Cote & Pierre Lafanachere


    France

    Dylan Cote and Pierre Lafanechère are two Paris-based media artists and designers, working primarily in moving images, sound, and installations. They conduct research by experimenting and diverting various techniques from their proper use, utilizing the aesthetic potential of digital media.
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    Felipe Arturo


    Colombia

    Felipe Arturo is an architect and artist born in Bogotá in 1979. His practice takes elements from a variety of fields in the proximities of urbanism, architecture, history of the city and the relationship between art, politics, history, geography and economy. His works and projects are mainly sculptures, installations and videos based on concepts such as structure, sequence and matter.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    john martinez


    Colombia

    He joined the FARC in 2007 where he served as squad leader and political secretary. Within the framework of the peace agreements, he received training in design and photography to work as a territorial correspondent for Nueva Colombia Noticias.
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    Ximena Diaz


    Colombia

    Plastic artist from the Universidad de los Andes, she obtained a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a Master's Degree in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. He works primarily with video, installation, and electronic media, exploring relationships between time, history, and failure.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Monica Bravo Pedrosa & Miguel Bohorquez


    Colombia

    Film director graduated in Social Communication from the Universidad del Valle with a master's degree in film directing from the London Film Scholl, UK. His work includes: “Invisible Tracks”, “I wouldn't sit next to myself”, “How to kiss a dead girl”, “The Taste in Our Tongues”, among others. His films and projects have been selected at national and international festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Premier Plans Festival d'Angers, Bratislava Film Festival and the Fabrique des Cinemas du Monde, among others.

    Graphic designer graduated from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts and animator. He is a doctor from the University of Buenos Aires. Appointed professor at the Universidad del Valle. His films include “Rutina” and “El cojito” broadcast by Wired.com; “Sonidos de barro”, “CicloM” and “Origem”, selected in festivals such as Clermont Ferrand, FICCALI, CineToro, among others.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Errata Collective


    Colombia

    Errata is a collective formed in 2019 by Mariana Rubio, Danny Mauricio and Andrés Santacruz who come from the visual arts, literature and documentary film, respectively. The collective seeks the production of audiovisual or artistic pieces that problematize the conventional and univocal narratives of terms such as identity, language, territory and signs, based on formal and conceptual experimentation. Errata wants to explore the dynamics of communication, power, belonging, to delve into our identity and our specific context, always inscribed in a particular society.
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    Christian SchraderValencia


    Colombia

    Graphic Design Studies at the Royal College of Arts in Great Britain 1976 Creative Director Leo Burnett Novas Colombia 1970 1976 Presidential Adviser for Distance Education programs during the Government of Belisario Betancur 1984. 
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Ivo Aichenbaum


    Argentina

    Image and Sound Designer from the University of Buenos Aires. He received different scholarships in visual arts. His feature films La parte automática and Cabeza de ratón were premiered at BAFICI.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Claudia Prat


    United States

    She is a journalist from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Magister from the Studio 20 digital innovation program at New York University. She is an international innovator who frames her work in the fields of documentary, journalism and virtual reality. Clàudia resides in New York where she has produced immersive stories for the Associated Press, New York Times, BBC, Al Jazeera and Univision. At the same time, he has given video and innovation workshops to activists and human rights defenders with different organizations. He is currently working for TIME magazine's immersive team.
  • Date
    April 30, 2020

    German Franco Diez


    Colombia

    Germán Franco is a film and television producer from the National University of Colombia, a Master's in History from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, a researcher and university professor in various fields of communication, author of the book on the cultural history of cinema "Mirando solo a la tierra.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    daniel cruz


    Chile

    Visual Artist, Master in Arts from Universidad de Chile, Certificate from Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center, NY, USA. 
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Leonardo Leal


    Colombia

    He was born in Bogotá in 1989. He is a Sound Engineer graduated from the University of San Buenaventura in Bogotá and has a Master's Degree in Audiovisual Creation from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. He is interested in experimental audiovisual formats, video art, sound creation and sound art.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Jorge Caballero


    Colombia - Spain

    He is a Master in interactive media, and is currently working on a doctorate in communication on cinema and artificial intelligence. He is a professor and tutor of expanded documentary on the documentary master's degree at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and he is a professor at the interactive narratives workshop on the communication degree at Pompeu Fabra.
  • Date
    June 15, 2020

    Jaime Andres Echeverri Guerrero


    Colombia

    Visual Designer Universidad de Caldas, with an Online Postgraduate Degree in Media Arts from the University of Córdoba - Argentina and Master's studies in Design and Interactive Creation. Teacher, researcher, member of the Comunmente University of Quindío research group, creator of the ExploraLabUQ laboratory, teacher of the Visual Arts and Social Communication Program - Journalism, has carried out research in audiovisual narratives - expanded around virtual reality and gamification in education . He has served as Production Manager of the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater, General Producer of the Manizales Fair, producer of the International Image Festival in Manizales, International City of Manizales Theater Festival, Manizales Grita Rock Festival and the Hateworks Fest Festival.
    Participate Exhibition Am I Alive?
  • Date
    April 30, 2020

    elizabeth lorenzo


    Norway / Spain

    Fashion Designer, Social Anthropologist and Social Intervention Technician. It has made scientific and academic activities compatible with the functions of community and pedagogical intervention, working in mediation and promoting the recognition of the citizen agency in the tangible and intangible heritage of the city.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Don Ritter


    Canada

    Don Ritter is a Canadian artist and writer who has been active internationally in the field of digital media art since 1988. His lectures and conference writings discuss the relationships between fine art, digital media, aesthetics and ethics.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Mariana Jimenez Velez


    Colombia

    Director of essay documentary and experimental video born in Manizales. Film and Television graduate from the National University of Colombia. He directed the documentary “Lover(s)” (2017),
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Monte Carlo


    Spain

    He began his career in the world of comics and video editing. Since then he has worked as a script-doctor for fiction and documentary, and has written more than a dozen feature films. He has participated in short films and 3D animation series, taking charge of the script, story-board and direction. He has also designed and advised exhibitions, interactive games, VR experiences and communication campaigns, as well as organized and participated in international meetings on transmedia.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Jhon Mauricio Chica Martinez


    Colombia

    Universidad de Caldas / Master in Arts / Medial Arts Teacher / Visual Arts Program
  • Date
    June 15, 2020

    Cristian Felipe Lizarralde Gomez


    Colombia

    Artist and appointed professor at the School of Social Communication of the Universidad del Valle, creator of the Hypermedia Laboratory "HiperLab" and leader of the line of research - creation in digital aesthetics of the Caligari research group. His academic and research experience has focused on the study of the interrelation between Art - Technology - Society and in the production of hypermedia, telematics and virtual reality works. Professor Lizarralde is Ph.D. in Design and Creation from the University of Caldas (Colombia), Master in Multimedia Education from the University of Caldas (Colombia), Postgraduate in Media Arts from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina) - University of Chile (Chile) - University of Caldas (Colombia), Specialist in University Teaching from the University of Caldas (Colombia), and Master in Plastic Arts from the University of Caldas (Colombia).
    Participate Exhibition Am I Alive?
  • Date
    May 16, 2020

    soliman lopez


    Spain

    He has a degree in Art History with a Master's in Art and Communication. A media artist who develops his artistic research around the relationship between the analogical-digital, the very discourse of art and society, identity and digital metaphysics.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Camilo Montoya Grajales


    Colombia

    Film director and producer born in Manizales. He is currently in his second year at the International Film and TV School in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) specializing in television and new media.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Roger Casas


    Mexico / Spain

    Roger Casas-Alatriste is the founder and director of El Cañonazo Transmedia, a Madrid-based company specialized in three business areas: design of online video strategies for brands, development and production of transmedia formats, and audiovisual content production service. multi platform.
  • Date
    June 15, 2020

    Camila Alexandra Campos Quintana


    Colombia

    Researcher, Social Communicator and journalist from the Universidad del Valle. Winner of first place at the national level in the SABER-PRO tests of the Ministry of National Education of Colombia. Candidate for the best degree work at the national level in the Otto de Greiff Award of the National University of Colombia. She has worked in the European Union in Colombia and participated as a producer in the production of different audiovisual and radio pieces, installations and virtual reality. He has worked in different areas of communication between the social, political, journalistic, organizational and artistic. He is currently working on academic research projects. Since she was a child, she has been involved in community radio work with the ICBF Family Welfare Institute, the Universidad del Valle, the Cali Mayor's Office, the Cali Secretary of Education, the French Alliance, the Caldas University, among others. Producer of more than 20 works, presentations and papers, as well as coordinator of the HiperLab Hipermedia Laboratory from 2012 to the present. 
    Participate Exhibition Am I Alive?
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Marge Dean


    United States

    Emmy-Award winner Margaret Dean is the Head of Studio for Crunchyroll, the world's most popular anime brand. In this role, Dean is responsible for the development and production of original content, operating from studios in Los Angeles and Tokyo. Prior to Crunchyroll, Dean was the General Manager of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the largest stop motion studio in Southern California, where she supervised production of Emmy award-winning “Robot Chicken” (Adult Swim) and “Buddy Thunderstruck” (Netflix) as well as expanded Stoopid Buddy's range of work to include 2D and 3D CGI. Known for building studios and animation pipelines, Dean has been responsible for the design or re-design of several studios large and small, including Columbia-TriStar TV, Warner Bros. Animation, Mattel's Playground Production, Omation (Steve Oedekerk), Technicolor Animation and Wildbrain Entertainment.
  • Date
    June 18, 2020

    Jaime Tenorio


    Colombia

    Political scientist from Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá), Master in Cultural Management from Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset (Madrid), Producer of the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba -EICTV-. He has been General Manager of the company Five7Media, Director of the channel Señal Colombia, advisor to the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, among other jobs. Member and representative of producers in the National Council of Arts and Culture in Cinematography -CNACC- between 2009 and 201. Consultant and speaker on media convergence and digital technologies, jury of cultural, audiovisual and new media calls inside and outside the country. He currently directs the Directorate of Audiovisuals, Film and Interactive Media of the Ministry of Culture.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Camilo Cantor


    Colombia

    Coordinator of the Exploratorio, the public experimentation workshop of Parque Explora, a setting for participation, training and development of citizen capacities, based on technical and technological appropriation.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Pilar Martinez


    Colombia

    Graduated in Music from the University of Caldas. He studied Electroacoustic Composition in the Sound Creation department of the CRR in Paris with Denis Dufour.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Juan Manuel Acuna Guzman


    Colombia

    Social Communicator from Universidad del Valle, he initially worked in documentary photography (El proyecto del diablo, 1997, Tiempo de miedo, 2001) before finding 3D animation as an audiovisual tool. From this new path arises El último coup del caballero (2004) was the first short film to be exhibited in national theaters under the umbrella of the New Film Law (2003), and which was the winner in the category of best animated short film at the international festival movie theater in Viña del Mar. He is currently doing doctoral studies in design, related to the relationship between human dramaturgy and animated dramaturgy. 
  • Date
    June 7, 2019

    Ricardo Dal Farra


    Argentina - Canada

    Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra is a composer, educator, researcher, curator, and historian, specializing in electroacoustic music and electronic arts. He is Professor in the Department of Music at Concordia University, in Canada and Founding Director of the Center for Experimentation and Research in Electronic Arts (CEIArtE) of the National University of Tres de Febrero, in Argentina.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    fernanda frick


    Chile

    Fernanda Frick (Santiago, Chile. 1991) is an animation director, illustrator and comic artist. "Here's the Plan", her 4th short-film, was selected in various festivals around the world including Nashville International Film Festival, SANFIC, Chilemonos, Anima Mundi and the Quirino Awards. In 2019, she published "Trazos", her first graphic novel with Editorial Planeta and had a project in development with Netflix. Currently, she manages her independent studio FFrick Studio (http://ffrickstudio.com).
  • Date
    June 13, 2020

    Juliana Hernandez Salcedo


    Colombia

    She is a Sociologist from the National University of Colombia, in recent years she has participated in social research processes for the characterization of different communities from participatory and collaborative scenarios. He currently coordinates the Creative Spaces work team at BibloRed with whom he has opened new meeting opportunities for the rural and urban community of Bogotá from the co-creation laboratories in Public Libraries. In addition, it leads community processes based on the principle of learning by doing together with boys, girls, adolescents and young people in the scout movement.
  • Date
    April 29, 2020

    Jenna Pollak


    United States

    Jenna Pollack is a contributing choreographer, performer, educator, and administrator committed to facilitating ethical spaces. She has been commissioned by companies and festivals throughout the United States, Spain, and Germany.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Michael Dessen


    United States

    Composer and trombonist Michael Dessen Links creates improvised, highly interactive music in collaboration with leading artists, while working as a university professor to expand institutional spaces and partnerships for cultural innovation. As a composer, he has been recognized with awards from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, and the Fromm Foundation, and as a trombonist, his original sound and extensive skills have made him a valued accompanist and collaborator for many creative musicians.

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  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Andres Gaona


    Colombia

    Francisco José de Caldas District University, ASAB Faculty of Arts. Andrés Gaona is a composer, arranger, guitarist and educator born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1989. Since 2009 he studied classical guitar at the National Pedagogical University of Bogotá, with professors Jaime Arias Obregón and María Cristina Ortiz.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Laura Julieth Moncada Aldana


    Colombia

    2d and stop motion animator for 7 years, graduated in Audiovisual and Multimedia Production at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and student of Interactive Design at the same institution, through her degree project with an emphasis on research she seeks to integrate her professional profile with the student, taking the opportunity to explore, experiment and learn a little more about the world of video games.
  • Date
    June 13, 2019

    Ricardo Dal Farra

    Canada - Argentina

    Professor of electronic arts and music at Concordia University, Canada. Director-Founder of the Center for Experimentation and Research in Electronic Arts (CEIARTE) of UNTREF, Argentina. Director of the Balance-Unbalance (BunB) series of international symposiums focused on finding solutions to the problems of the global environmental crisis, and Understanding Visual Music (UVM). He has been director of the Hexagram Center for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies of Canada; coordinator of the Multimedia Communication Area of the Ministry of Education of Argentina; researcher at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Center of De Montfort University in England.

  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Cecilia Traslavina


    Colombia

    Cecilia Traslaviña is an animator, visual artist with a master in literature. She works as a professor and researcher in the Department of Visual Arts of the Javeriana University in Bogotá. Colombia. In her work, she explores childhood memories and the unconscious, leaning on nonlinear narratives with techniques from the visual arts and literature.
  • Date
    June 18, 2020

    Lucia Hernandez Rendon


    Colombia

    Industrial Engineer, specialist in Project Management, specialist in Administration and MBA candidate. With close to 10 years of experience in project structuring and evaluation, support in the formulation and implementation of business models in the public and private spheres. Passionate, student and practitioner of arts associated with music and dance.
  • Date
    April 24, 2020

    Cleomar Rocha


    Brazil

    Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Education Sciences and Letters of Iporá (1991), Master in Art and Image Technology from the University of Brasilia (1997), PhD in Communication and Contemporary Culture from the Federal University of Bahia (2004).

    ICETEX
  • Date
    June 9, 2020

    Charles Rainville


    France

    Charles Rainville approached sound arts and digital arts in a self-taught way during his university studies, where he finds a great interest in particular for experimental electronic music. He is active in the emerging music scene in Montreal, especially by sharing his artistic vision during DJ sets and live during small events and events.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Ibai Zabaleta Urrusolo


    Basque Country

    He is cultural manager and coordinator of Hirikilabs, a citizen laboratory for digital culture and technology at the CICC Tabakalera in Donostia/San Sebastián.
  • Date
    April 29, 2020

    Bruno Tackels


    Belgium - France

    Bruno Tackels is a PhD and Philosophy Attaché. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rennes from 1996 to 2001, then at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg where he continues to lead a "playwriting workshop" for stage designers. He is a documentary producer for 'France culture' and is a founding member of Mouvement magazine. He is director of the collection (« essais » (essays)) for the publishing house Solitaires intempestifs where he has published a series of books on the 'set writers' (Roméo Castelucci,…..) 
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Andrea Sanchez Guerrero


    Colombia

    Colombian Animator, Producer and Teacher. Master's Degree in Plastic and Visual Arts at the National University of Colombia. Specialist in Stop Motion Animation Production from the ECIB school in Barcelona. Director of Animated Film from the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires. Animation and production teacher. Production manager of 1881 animation studio.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Edward J. Guerrero Chinome


    Colombia

    Colombian Teacher, Researcher and Creator. Doctoral student in Arts and Education at the University of Granada, Spain. Master in Visual Studies from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. Professional in Graphic Design from the Unitec University Corporation. Interested in the phenomena of the image in the urban context, visual accidents and the editorial process as a creative process of research and teaching.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Silvia PrietoV


    Colombia

    Director and producer of Lucy Animation Studio. Visual Arts Studies (Undergraduate), Master of Visual Arts and Classical Animation at Vancouver Film School (Full Scholarship Winner, 2013 Contest). Winner of the Animex Awards festival (Harmony 2015) and winner of BFM (Bogoshorts Film Market 2019) for best web series in development. With experience of more than five years in 2D animation projects. Lead animator for Nickelodeon's Pig Goat Banana Cricket series during 2016. Director, producer, and art director for approximately fourteen Ted Ed, two internationally recognized animated feature documentaries (“The Bit Player” and “The Condor and The Eagle”) , an episode of Marvel TLDR (The Man Thing); music videos by renowned artists, and two series in development (Madhouse and Martian Leaks).
  • Date
    June 18, 2020

    Paula López Chica


    Colombia

    General producer of 10 versions of the International Image Festival, including international cooperation with ISEA 2017 and Balance-Unbalance 2016, she has participated in the production of the Manizales International Theater Festival, in the coordination of the Manizales Orange Economy Node and as co-investigator in projects and consultancies in creative industries with MinCultura and MinTic. PhD student in Design and Creation from the University of Caldas with a national Colciencias scholarship, Social Communicator and Journalist from the University of Manizales and a specialist in Project Management from the Eafit University. She has been advisor to the rectory, Vice-rector for University Projection, member of the management team and currently director of graduates at the University of Caldas.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Cesar Mazo


    Colombia

    Audiovisual Communicator, specialist in electronic journalism and master's degree in Digital Communication. For ten years he has worked in research, teaching and management of strategies for the social appropriation of digital information and communication technologies (ICT). He currently exercises the role of articulator of Digital Culture in the Public Library System of Medellín. 
  • Date
    June 15, 2020

    Angela Liliana Dotor Robayo


    Colombia

    Fashion and textile designer, currently a PhD candidate in Design at the University of Palermo, Magister in Market Management at the Universidad del Mar, Associate Professor of the Fashion Design and Management Program at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogota, with special Interest in the field of sustainability and clothing design with highly complex requirements.
  • Date
    June 15, 2020

    Carolina Quintero


    Colombia

    Dr. Quintero Rodriguez is a lecturer within the school of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Australia, with a research interest in determining the key design considerations relevant to the engineering of functional clothing designed to fulfill the specific functional and comfort requirements of wearers through the understanding of the properties of the materials required for the specific end-use.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Jesus Moreno


    Venezuela

    Trained as a sculptor at the EAV "Cristóbal Rojas" and at the IUESAP "Armando Reverón", he has studied arts in Venezuela, Spain and Colombia.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Ricardo Arce Lopez


    Colombia

    Animator and researcher, he is an Associate Professor at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. He is President of the Colombian chapter of the International Association of Animated Films, ASIFA Colombia, and member of the Board of Directors of ASIFA International. He studied Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, the Specialization in Television at the Pontifical University.
  • Date
    June 10, 2020

    Newrona


    Colombia

    Newrona is a Colombian company specialized in the field of interactive communication, which transforms, designs and creates experiences based on participatory design. 
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Jesus Alejandro Guzman-Ramirez


    Colombia

    PhD in Design and Creation from the University of Caldas. Master in Design and Interactive Creation from the University of Caldas. Visual Designer graduated from the University of Caldas and Professional Director in 3D Animation from Image Campus – Buenos Aires. Professor of animation and illustration, both analog and digital, since 2003. His research profile is related to the construction of virtual representations of social groups and the inclusion of new technologies in said communities, as well as the development of projects linked to understanding the processes within of animated phenomena and design.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Andrea Castaño


    Mexico

    Co-Creator, Co-Director and Writer of “WWJD” (What Would Jesus Do?) Winning series of Animation Ventana sur BSAS-Argentina, presented at the MIFA market of the International Film Festival of Animation d'Annecy-France, winner of the BTG Bridging the GAP Tenerife-Spain Grant and currently in pre-production.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Lola Barreto


    Colombia

    Director and designer of projects for animation, ICT and transmedia content. She has carried out in recent years works that exalt cultural heritage, arts and science for different fields of communication. She promotes design thinking and the exploration of emerging technologies through the creation of fictional universes.
  • Date
    June 15, 2020

    Alis Pataquiva Mateus


    Colombia

    ‌Chemical Engineer from the National University of Colombia. His interests include bio/nano/sustainable materials. He completed his Master's studies in Sao Paulo (Brazil) with a scholarship from the State of Sao Paulo (CNPq) at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), he worked in the production of biodegradable plastic in Airlift bioreactors.

    Balance-Unbalance
  • Date
    June 13, 2020

    Juan David Reina


    Colombia

    Independient investigator. Master's Degree in Environmental and Development Studies, and PhD in Engineering from the National University of Colombia.
  • Date
    June 14, 2020

    Sergio Hernan Sierra-Monsalve


    Colombia

    Throughout my professional career I have worked as a professor in different public universities, in which I have committed myself to teaching areas such as theater anthropology, modern and postmodern theater theory, body training, the practice of acting techniques based on in the design of physical and expressive movement. Since August 2006, I have been a full-time Associate Professor at the University of Caldas. PhD in Theater Studies.
  • Date
    June 18, 2020

    Marco Dini


    Italy

    Graduated in political science at the University of Bologna. He has obtained the Advanced Study Diploma in Economics at the University of Lérida, Spain. He has worked for almost 30 years in Latin America, in national (CORFO and SERCOTEC of Chile) and international (UNIDO, FOMIN, UNDP, European Union) institutions. During this period, he has contributed to the design, management and evaluation of promotion programs and policies for the business sector. Likewise, it has participated in the elaboration of technical assistance methodologies and in the realization of professional training activities, with special attention to the issues of clusters, local economic development, business networks, productive chains and supplier development.
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