Discover Top Documentary DPs in Bogota, Bogota, Colombia

I am a multimedia journalist, writer and documentary producer. Studied Literature, Philosophy, Creative Writing in the University of Iowa and Journalism in the Columbia Journalism School. Latest examples of my video work can be seen on my webpage. Video is my passion, I live for beautiful stories, it's the salt of my life.

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Journalist and video producer based in Colombia with a decade of experience working for international news channels, current affairs programs and humanitarian groups. Recently I have also shot stories in Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil.

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I have experience producing documentary films, writing feature articles, and packaging radio & TV pieces. I'm an American based in Bogotá, Colombia, with experience working in English, Spanish and French. In 2015, following dreams of being a full-time storyteller, I moved to India to co-direct a documentary about an orphanage outside the city of Hyderabad. Most recently, I served as the managing editor at Innovations | Stories, an online publication sharing the stories of social innovators all over the Global South. While at Innovations | Stories I designed and spearheaded a multimedia editorial strategy which allowed for more diverse content (a heavier focus on photo and video stories). As managing editor I supported video and photo freelance contributors from all over the world and designed storytelling trainings for social innovators to tell their own stories. I'm originally from Berkeley, California, USA and I earned my B.S. from the University of California, Davis in Community and Regional Development with a minor in Art Studio (focusing on video and photography). From 2010-2015 I directed a global education program called One World Youth Project (OWYP), based in Washington, DC. At OWYP I designed middle school (age 10-14) curriculum and trained university students to teach it around the world in their own communities. The program taught the children cross-cultural communication by empowering them to create and send video, photo, and written messages to their partner classroom abroad - all facilitated by trained university student volunteers. While serving as program director at OWYP I had the privilege of traveling around the world visiting schools and delivering trainings at universities. My work in education and the opportunity to see so much of the world made me realize I wanted to tell stories. Storytelling is the best form of education anyway.

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As photographer and videographer I have worked since 2012 for several NGOs like Peace Boat, Retrak.org, WWF Colombia, Unicef Cambodia, etc, and also some corporate events and tour companies in around the world, where I have had the opportunity to travel to some remote locations in order to plan the shooting, develop the scripts on the ground, shoot with a variety of hight quality gear, edit and deliver the final products for several purposes such as promotional tools, crowdfunding, social causes and documentaries. My previous experience to the photography world was in advertising for about 10 years, and it is a plus when creating and developing shooting plans for my clients to achieve an specific goal or target. Recent clients: • MasterPeace Germany • WWF UK and Colombia • KimKim.com • ImasD Group • Khiri Travel • Retrak.org • TasteMade Español • Grasshopper Adventures • Unicef Cambodia • Phase Worlwide • PEPY Cambodia • Off Grid Electric (Tanzania)

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Tom Laffay is a visual journalist, DP and director specializing in working on long term projects in Latin America bringing a cinematic look with journalistic rigor. Currently based in Colombia, he has been dedicated to covering the ongoing violence against human rights defenders over the course of the country's troubled peace process since 2016 and frequently shoots for media like ARD Germany, El Espectador and contributes to The Atlantic and The Guardian. Tom is bilingual (English / Spanish) and travels extensively producing short documentary films for New Media Advocacy Project and IUCN in South America, Africa and the US and since 2011 he has worked with La Isla Network to advance improvements in the agricultural labor sector in Central America. Recently he has begun working as a DP on more narrative films for directors Sean Mattison, Emily Wright and Antonio Santini and is interested in pursuing that path. Tom lives in Bogota, Colombia and is available for assignments in the Americas and just about anywhere else.

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Cecilia Traslaviña, animator and visual artist. Master in Literature. She is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia. Her work has different approaches: a personal side where she explores memories and the unconscious from nonlinear narratives in consonance with techniques of the visual arts. Also, she has collaborated with multiple artists and audiovisual schools in the creation of collective artworks, animated documentaries addressing topics from an experimental perspective. She has curated programs about experimental Colombian and Latin American animation which has been presented in multiple venues around the world. She is an active member of Moebius-Animación (www.moebiusaniamcion.com), whose objective is to amplify the voices of Latin American experimental animation. Her works have been selected in many national and international film festivals around the world.

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Alejandra is a journalist and an empirical photographer, although more the latter than the former. For more than ten years she worked at SoHo, one of the most important magazine in Colombia, seven of them as the photo editor. She used to run a section called “A serious man grimaces and take a joke” in which she has portrayed national life characters such as former President César Gaviria and congressmen Jorge Enrique Robledo and Piedad Cordoba. Today she is focused in her own photograpic proyects and at the same time creating a storytelling studio with some partners in Bogotá. Among the first are her series on albinos, OVEREXPOSED VOL 1, 2, and 3 which have been exposed in Valenzuela Klenner (2011),at The Feria del Millón (2013), 360 Gallery (2014), and “la Cometa” Gallery” (2015). On the other hand, she has worked for many clients as Olga Piedrahita (designer), Pepa Pombo (designer), InFashion Magazine, Magazine Arcadia, Fucsia Magazine, Telefónica, Global Humanitarian, Diageo, Express Jhonnie Walker Brand, Protex, among others.

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Hi I'm Angélica Toro. I'm a pianist and a filmmaker and live in Medellín,Colombia. Four years ago I co-founded the production company DeMente Fotográfica now Plano Gorilla. Echoes of the sea, our first documentary short film, was awarded as Best Documentary Short Film on the DocLa Los Angeles Documentary Short Film Festival, and Best Short Film in the 12th Annual Huntington Beach SoCal Film Festival in the United States. Was also showcased in Germany, Canada and Colombia. I think that Colombia is the country of stories, where there's a lot to show that the world hasn't seen yet. Since 2017 my production company has been developing videos for Ozy.com where we've been shooting from the simplest stories, to ones with people that can change the world through their ideas and their work. I invite you to watch our work, I'm sure you will enjoy it!

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I am a multimedia journalist covering human rights and socio-political issues, based between Latin America and Southeast Asia. I have reported on sexual violence, internal forced displacement, kidnapping, the reintegration of ex-militants from illegal armed groups into society, and the impact of drug policies on the livelihoods of coca farmers. I have also documented Cambodia’s post conflict rapid development and its impact on the Cambodian population including land grabs, civil unrest and the recession of natural resources. My work has been published on news outlets such as IRIN News , America’s Quarterly, Foreign Policy, CNN International and Le Monde; and I have produced communication materials for humanitarian organizations including Save the Children, CARE, UNICEF, Handicap International and BBC Media Action.

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Md Imtiaj Nasir is a Media Producer and Visual Journalist based in Bangladesh. He is well known for his multitasking and problem solving capacities. He explored and experimented with camera and mixed media for the last 8 years. Imtiaj strives to capture the moment transcending time and place. His works continues to better understand the individual’s meaning of life on earth and thereafter and reaching with the consequences to expand his visual literacy both literal and abstract. In the recent years he produced several video and still content for Startups, Business and organizations. He worked intensively for local startup scene in Bangladesh. He does have a hand on experience on digital con- tent production and featured storytelling. Currently, he is working as a freelance media producer.

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Creative Director at Kingfisher Studio, a Colombia-based documentary film production company focused on social impact storytelling. MFA in Film Directing from The University of Edinburgh with Distinction. BSc in Journalism from Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. Experience in visual journalism covering issues such as Human Rights, Climate Change, and wider work in the field producing and reporting with rural communities. Work includes projects with BBC Scotland, 60 Second Docs and Getty Images, as well as multiple NGOs, Museums and Cultural heritage institutions.

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I am a freelance documentary filmmaker and visual journalist based in Washington, D.C. Focused on conservation, women's voices, artists, and social issues, I strive to bring the interesting and untold to light. I was previously a Producer/Editor at National Geographic for over 3 years where I researched, produced, shot, and edited award-winning short-form documentaries for various digital platforms. Prior to National Geographic, I filmed over 150 musicians on NPR’s music team, designed an intensive summer film program for high school students at Yale, and guided horseback treks in Chile.

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I work with social justice issues, indigenous communities, migration and the war on drugs. Freelance for media such as CNN International, ARD, Fluter Magazine, Taz Die, Republik. I also work with human rights organizations such as Dejusticia, Fairtunes Colombia, Mevico and Asokatio. I have worked as a fixer for journalist Toby Muse (CGTN), for the rest of the world magazine and for the Swiss network SRF.

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Camarógrafo profesional con 25 años de experiencia en la realización de documentales y realitys en Colombia y el extranjero. Camarógrafo y director de fotografía en la realización de crónicas y reportajes para televisión. Camarógrafo en el cubrimiento de eventos políticos, económicos y deportivos en Colombia. Camarógrafo y realizador freelance de reportajes periodísticos para La Voz de América de Estados Unidos.

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Adelaida Pardo is a Colombian cinematographer with a nomadic spirit. She has worked in film productions both in documentary and fiction. Has been based in Canada, Colombia, Scotland, and Estonia. Now she is based in Berlin and works locally and internationally, as a freelance cinematographer. adelaidapardo(at)gmail(dot)com.

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Ivd been working in the media since 2006, ivd worked in Venezuela till year 2011, when i went to study Filmmaking in Buenos Aires, where i worked till the year 2018, since february 2017 ivd been working with Falir Media consultancy (Italy - Turkey), making short storys for Aljazeera Arabic, first from Argentina and now from March 2018 from Colombia. I work with a Jurnalist.

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Laura Otálora (Bogotá, Colombia, 1989) is a visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. Early in her career she made documentaries for international organizations in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. In 2018, her first feature film, "Chef's Diaries: Scotland", won Best Documentary in Girona and was selected in several festivals such as Malaga, Seattle and Edinburgh, available on Amazon Prime Video and Filmin. In 2021, she wrote and directed two episodes of "Distil Your World" on Amazon Prime Video and the documentary series "Vivas" (MinTIC). In 2024, her documentary "De Colombia pa'l Mundo" premiered on HBOmax. She is currently directing her second feature film "Capitán" and the series "Impermanence", is content director at the "Apichatpong Weerasethakul Lab" and professor at the National Film School (ENACC).

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Hi my name is Ivan Sheligo I been working on commercials and video productions all over the world. I've directed feature films that have gained worldwide distribution and has shot video campaigns for high profile clients such as Galderma, Pepsico, Deadline, Hasbro, Samsung and Google. I can handle large and small projects, from how-to videos, short films, commercials, demo reels and music videos to feature films and everything in between.

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Digital media and video journalism expert with over 10 years of accumulated experience innovating with journalists, designers and technologists to advance storytelling on social media and provide exceptional news and information consumption experiences. Experienced voice over.

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Javier Castaneda worked in advertising and tv as a cinematographer and co-producer for 7 years. Now he's been working in documentaries as a audiovisual producer and videographer for the most important news companies like cctv china and aljazeera plus and Vice.

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