creative team


 Mateo Hinojosa, director. Through filming, acting, writing, directing, producing, circus, music, and animation, Mateo Hinojosa has put art onstage and onscreen in the US, Bolivia, Argentina and Cameroon. Of Bolivian and US origin, he has worked in Bolivia directing theater workshops, teaching literacy in homes for homeless children and heading semester-long educational trips with students. His has participated in numerous short film competitions and in art exhibitions, recently projecting in Contemporary Art Museum in Rosario, Argentina. He has completed his coursework for a Master’s Degree in Documentary Film at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and is currently writing his thesis on the interventionist documentary.
 
FILMOGRAPHY 
 
Director, Editor
  “Meeting de los Estilos”
    2012, creative institutional documentary, HD
 
Field Producer and Camera:
   “Argentina canta por la paz” (Argentina Sings for Peace)
   2010, two TV programs of 25 minutes each, HD
   Aired on public stations Canal Encuentro, Canal Pakapaka

Director, Editor and Producer:
   “Heart to Heart: Aurora and Mario’s Story”
    2010, institutional documentary, HD

Animation Director and Camera:
“La Familia de María”
2009, 21 min, documentary with animation, DVCAM

Director and Producer:
    “Se Busca”
    2010, 15 min, documentary, DVCAM

Co-Director and Editor:
“Transmisión”
2008, 4 min, stop-motion graffiti animation, multimedia

Director:
“La Relación”
2008, 7 min, fiction and documentary, DVCAM



 
Director:
“Bombing Buenos”
2006, 5 min, documentary, HD
   http://current.com/items/76356982/bombing_buenos.htm



Belimar Román, Venezuelan, executive and field producer. With La Galápaga Cooperativa Audiovisual.  Belimar Román is a documentary filmmaker graduated from la Escuela de Medios Audiovisuales in the Universidad de la Andes in Mérida, Venezuela. She began her career in 2002 with the Workshop for Documentary Filmmaking in Venezuela by the Atéliers Varan from Paris; since then she has directed eight documentaries and has been assistant director in many others. With the film “Antes de Tiempo” she was awarded Best Documentary and Best Script in the Festival of Student Film of the UNIACC in Chile and Best Opera Prima in the Short Film Festival Manuel Trujillo Durán in Venezuela. Her work has been selected for different expositions and both national and international festivals; she has just premiered her first feature documentary, Cuatro Litros por Tonel. She is finishing her Master’s in Documentary Film at the Universidad del Cine in Argentina.


Martín Boulocq, Bolivian, executive producer, editing supervisor. With CQ Films. Martín Boulocq was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 1980. While he was at school he edited the alternative magazine Crepúsculo and worked as a photographer for Malbicho Magazine. He studied Philosophy and Literature, and Social Communications. He also attended the Andean School of Cinema, where he studied with Jorge Goldenberg and Julio García Espinoza. He has won many international awards for his opera prima The Most Beautiful of My Very Best Years, which was premiered at the AFI Festival in Hollywood (2005). He has also directed and produced documentaries, short films and several music videos. He is finishing his second feature film Los Viejos.


Mauricio Ovando, Bolivian, director of photography. Mauricio Ovando graduated with a Licenciate in Film Direction from Universidad Católica Boliviana. He has directed and shot over 30 shorts. Among his outstanding directed work is Sábado llueve domingo, winner of “Best Video Art”, “Best Cinematography” and “Best Sound” in the Festival FENAVID (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 2008). His thesis was Menos 14 en marzo (2010). He is widely recognized as Director of Photography: he filmed the music video Espiral (Best National Video and Best Music Video FENAVID 2008); the short Todos (won the Amalia de Gallardo prize 2008); the short Cero bolivianos (oficial selection festival Nueva Mirada de Buenos Aires, 2007); and the medium-length ¿De qué color es el cielo? (oficial selection Cine Las Américas Film Festival 2010). He has also led video workshops with homeless children with Fundación Alalay. He is currently studying his Master’s in Creative Documental in the Escuela Internacional Observatorio de Cine in Buenos Aires.
                                  

Nicolás J. Scatamacchia, Argentine, sound engineer and designer. Nicolás Scatamacchia began his sound career with the electric guitar, playing in various bands, until he discovered electronic and computerized music. Audio programs began interacting with piano classes, and soon he had worked on over 40 university shorts, among other productions, and entered the world of Sound Design. Covering pre-production, filming and post-production, Nicolás works the entire audio process for film. He is currently completing a Licentiate in Film direction in the Universidad del Cine while simultaneously doing a Licentiate  in Audio Recording and Post-Production in TECSON.


Cristina Carrasco, Venezuelan, editor. Cristina Carrasco graduated cum laude from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, concentrating in Color, Photography and Documentary. She studied Dramatic Structure and Montage with the renowned Argentine editor Miguel Pérez. She has worked in Venezuela editing ads and TV documentaries. In Argentina she has edited for The History Channel, Canal Encuentro, Discovery Channel and Telesur. Among her work is “Libre”, by Gustavo Rondón Córdova (Special Mention for Best Short in the Festival de Cine de Margarita, Venezuela; Third Place for Best Short in the AXN Film Festival). She also edited shorts “La Radio” and “Boss n’ Poker” by Augusto Caro (ProduSica Prize from the Sindicato de la Industria Cinematográfica Argentina). She assisted editing Calle Miseria, a Bolivian feature documentary. She also co-edited the documentary by Natural Arpajou, "Mujeres en Paralelo". She is currently editing the feature Tiempos Menos Modernos, by Simón Franco, a Chilean-Argentine production.


Alejandro Salazar, Bolivian, director of animation. Alejandro Salazar was born in La Paz, in 1959. He graduated from architecture college, but never underwent formal study in art; he considers himself a self-taught artist. His work is in several children’s literature books, such as El espejo de los sueños by Isabel Mesa, which won the Prize for Best Illustration given by the Bolivian Educational Reform (1998). He also illustrated, with Guiomar Mesa, La Turquesa y el Sol by Isabel Mesa, and several books by Gladys Dávalos: Helado de chocolate, El rincón del tigre azul, El paraíso de los Qala Paqo, Qatari y Asiru. He has received the First Prize in Painting, La Paz Salón Municipal “Pedro Domingo Murillo”  (1994), the Grand Prize of the second competition “Recuperating Drawing”, organized by the BHN Foundation (1995). His first major incursion into animation was in the Danish-Bolivian short, Abuela Grillo (2009).


Iván Nogales, Bolivian, creative and logistics consultant. Iván Nogales is a recognized community leader in El Alto, most notably for his creation of COMPA and Teatro Trono, which had its beginning doing street theater with homeless children in El Alto. He has led them to grow, and they now have 6 cultural centers in El Alto, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. He coordinates their diverse projects, from community radio to tours of Europe to film and video work. The results of his work can be seen at www.compatrono.com.