Oscar Molina - Writer, Director, Producer, Assistant Editor & Cinematographer
Colombian film director and producer with studies in journalism and visual arts in Colombia and with MFA in Film and Media Arts at Temple University (US). His recent film work has been focused in the relationship between economy, migration and home. In 2004 he received the Colombian National Journalist Prize for his documentary 'The Enchanted Kingdom'. Also, he has served in several positions developing audiences for film in his country such us film programmer at art cinema houses and film festivals. Since 2011 he has been working on research, development and production of Mi Casa My Home documentary film trilogy. His film work has been broadcasted in national television and exhibited in film festivals in Havana, Cuba; Rosario, Argentina; FIPATEL, Biarritz, France; Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia; Mexican Human Rights Film Festival; and in dance film festivals in US, Spain and Colombia. He is a co-leader of Salon Documental Medellin, a film event to promote the development and professionalization of documentary production in his city and country. Together with Brenda I. Steinecke Soto he lauched and directs the producing company Actor Inmaterial. More: https://vimeo.com/oscarjmolina |
Brenda I. Steinecke Soto - Producer & Co-Writer
(Colombia/Germany). Producer, cultural manager and choreographer. MA in philosophy and Literature from Hamburg University. After studying and working in Europe for 18 years, Brenda returned to her home town, Medellín, where she launched and is director of the Espacio Arte Foundation (www.espacio-arte.org), a non profit organization based in the rural site of Medellín/Colombia. Its approach relies on boosting dynamics of social transformation through multidisciplinary artistic projects, intertwining their work in a local and international context. As a film producer, Brenda concentrates in documentary and experimental projects in which she engages also as a conceptual advisor and co-researcher. Together with Oscar Molina she lauched and directs the producing company Actor Inmaterial. More: www.espacio-arte.org |
Aggie Ebrahimi - Producer of the Short Film 'A Home for Rene & Julia' & Coproducer of Absentees' House
(US/Iran) Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz is an award-winning, Iranian-American documentary artist, writer, and educator. Her community-engaged creative practices focus on diasporic identities, belonging, and Freirean praxis. Her work includes VR/360° documentary experiences, live participatory performances, installations, multi-platform collaborations—any form conducive to contributing nuance to interrogations of power and to the ongoing work of social justice. Bazaz’s films have been shown internationally at film festivals, including Slamdance, Encounters Film Festival, CAAMFest, Atlanta Film Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, and her recent film, “How to Tell a True Immigrant Story” (2019) was the first-ever VR film to be programmed in the Pardi di Domani shorts competition at the Locarno International Film Festival. Among other honors, she has received support from the Wexner Center, MDOCS Summer Storytellers’ Institute, Interlochen Arts Academy, Cal Humanities, the Center for Asian American Media and the Bay Area Video Coalition. |
She earned her M.A. in multicultural literature from the University of Georgia and her M.F.A. in filmmaking from Temple University. Aggie is Assistant Professor of filmmaking at Georgia State University. She is at work on a long-term project embedded within a community of migratory farmworkng families who live and work in California's Central Valley. More: https://aggiebazaz.com/
Gustavo Vasco - Editor, Co-Writer & Associate Producer
Film editor for documentaries and fictional movies such as “Todo Comenzó por el fin” (2016, dir: Luis Ospina, Macondo-Award winner for the best montage), “Pizarro” (2016, dir: Simón Hernández, India Catalina-Award winner for the best documentary for TV), “Somos Calentura” and “Tura” (2017 & 2018, dir: Jorge Navas), "Amazona" (2017, dir: Clare Weiskopf), "Suspensión" (2020, dir: Simón Uribe); "Mateo" (2014, dir: María Gamboa), “Tierra en la lengua” and “Señorita María Luisa, la falda de la montaña” (2014 & 2017, dir: Rubén Mendoza) “Tierra en la lengua was award-winner for the best movie at Cartagena’s International Film Festival – FICCI - 2014. He also has worked as editor for several shorts: “Madre” (2016, dir: Simón Mesa, Official Selection for Cannes 2016), “Se venden conejos” (2015, dir: Esteban Giraldo, award-winner for the best short movie at |
Cartagena’s International Film Festival – FICCI – 2015) and “Elefante” (2015, dir: Cesar Herediia, award-winner for the best Colombian short at the Berlinale). He studied anthropology at the Andes University, Bogotá and edition at the La Femis, Paris. He also performs as a lecturer at diverse national and international universities.