Director and screenwriter, he graduated with honors from the Universidad del Valle’s School of Social Communications and the screenplay for La tierra y la sombra was his graduate thesis. The screenplay went on to become his first feature film and premiered at the 2015 Cannes Festival’s Critics’ Week after receiving support from the Carolina Foundation and Ibermedia’s Ibero-American Film Proyects grant; a screenwriting grant and a feature production grant from Colombia’s Film Development Fund (FDC) in 2009 and 2013, respectively; the 2013 Cartagena International Film Festival’s Encuentros Cartagena prize; the Hubert Bals and Hubert Bals Plus Funds; and Honorable Mention at the II Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The film also took part in the Ibero-American Films Crossing Borders section of the 2010 Havana Film Festival and in the Ibero-American Co-Production Meeting at the 2012 Huelva Film Festival in Spain.
