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.
