MARGARITA MARTÍNEZ

DIRECTORA

Margarita Martinez is a Colombian documentary filmmaker.  She received her masters’ degree in Journalism and International Affairs from Columbia University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2009.

Martinez started her career at NBC in New York in 1998. She returned to Bogotá to work for the Associated Press. For the next seven years, she covered Colombia´s conflict, moving between rebel camps and paramilitary strongholds at the height of the violence.

Her first film, La Sierra, was nominated to the Independent Spirit Award in Los Angeles in 2006, among others.  She went on to produce two feature-length documentaries, Robatierra (Best Documentary of the South, Havana Film Festival 2009), and Antanas’s Way.

She received the Maria Moors Cabot Award for excellence in journalism in 2016.

ALFONSO PARRA

DIRECTOR DE FOTOGRAFÍA AEC, ADFC

From Madrid, Spain, began his career as DP in 1993, focusing on documentaries and full-length fiction, including Mujeres en el Parque, La flaqueza del bolchevique, Paisito, La bicicleta, El juego de Cuba and Eloxio de la distancia, among many other films. He has also filmed TV series including Reliquias and Colombian shows Pambelé and La Ley del Corazón, with a special interest in new digital technologies for production and post-production.

Teaches at EICTV in Cuba, ESCAC in Catalonia, ECAM in Madrid and the National University of Colombia. He is the founding partner at the Center for Digital Cinematography, dedicated to the dissemination and instruction of cinematography in the Spanish-speaking world.

Frequently publishes in national and international specialized journals, and works with Canon, ARRI, SONY, and Cooke in evaluating cinematographic cameras and lenses.