1st Colombian Documentary & Short-Film Festival at Cornell University

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Special Guests / Invitados Especiales:

Sonia Barrera
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Born: Sogamoso COLOMBIA, February 10, 1979
 
Graduated from the School of Film and Photography at UNITEC (Colombia). She has done post-graduate work on production, realization and theatre. She has worked as producer in the short films Lúdica Macabrica, Entre Cuartos, Dioses Ocultos, and documentaries such as Seres, and the awarded El Espanto.
She worked as director/production assistant on Historias de Inventos, which won award to Best TV Show for children in the Festival de Cine de Cartagena, 2002.
She was awarded by the 1era Convocatoria de Cinematografia del Ministerio de Cultura (Colombia, 1998) for the realization of a music video La Huida. She currently works on production and realization of short films, docuemntaries and institutional videos at her own independent company. 
 
She produced the feature documentary Humans and would be presenting it in our festival.
 

Deborah Correa
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Born in California, Deborah Correa graduated from Emerson College in May of 2005 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Media Arts and Writing, Literature, and Publishing. She had spent several years abroad in Colombia and Spain. Though, Colombia: This Little Old Town, is her first piece on Colombia it will not be her last, she sees the telling of Colombia’s stories a lifelong labor of love. She is continuing to work in the documentary field. She sees documentary as a tool to bring about a positive change in places that have been overlooked and oppressed. Her next project takes place in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/01/rc_16_columbia.html

Ingrid Rojas
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Colombian filmmaker living in New York City. She has worked as Associate Producer and Researcher for various PBS documentaries and currently works as AP on a series for The History Channel. She holds a BS on Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin. She’s the recipient of the Fall 2003 Film/Video Arts Foundation’s mentorship for her work as Director/Producer of the upcoming half-hour documentary titled “Legally Blind”.
 
She will be talking about her experience making her documentary