Ricardo Escallón

Movies

La Flor de La Lengua de Vaca
Sound Editor
Camila lives her last days in the jungle as a guerrilla of the FARC-EP at the crossroads between an uncertain future of peace and the lingering memory of a childhood severely punished. Sent to a war hospital in the middle of the jungle, Camila begins a journey into her past, to the depths of an old wound that needs to be healed. A journey that ends up leading her to an unexpected reunion with her friend Ricardo, a young guerrilla recently amputated due to a mine.
The Great Sadini
Sound
After losing his father, being expelled from school and facing his mother's prohibitions, Luciano, a young student, decides to flee to the sea with his friend Daniel, showing his knowledge of hypnosis to the whole world.
The Boss
Sound Designer
A black office comedy about a head of human resources who threatens to run away with his wife's best friend to escape the insanity around him.
Portraits in a Sea of Lies
Sound Designer
A young woman experiences the worst life has to over in this depressing but worthwhile Colombian drama tinged with a hint of magical realism. Paola Baldion plays Marina, a withdrawn teenager whose abusive grand-dad houses her in a dilapidated shed. When the old fart pops his clogs, Marina passes into the care of cousin Jairo (Julian Roman), a cheesecake photographer who "hires" her to help him with his gear, and the two end up taking an episodic road trip as they travel to reclaim grandpa's legacy. Unpleasant flashbacks to Marina's tragic childhood ensue. Yep, the good times never end in this one! Known in English as Portraits in a Sea of Lies, this meditation on the 50-year long Colombian civil war - as seen through the grueling experiences of our heroine - won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 14th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival.
Juana Had Hair of Gold
Supervising Sound Editor
A magician announces in a show that in Ciénaga, a small town on the Colombian Atlantic Coast, there's a little girl whose hair is made of real gold: Juana. The Deacon, the Mayor, and the greedy population of this town find in this unusual gift the solution of their financial difficulties. But sooner or later, Juana's gift will become in a curse she'll try to fight.
The Fence
Sound Supervisor
Francisco Maldonado is sadly involved in a series of dreams that have tormented him, in which generally he, wielding multiple weapons (the machete, the shotgun, his own mother) attacks his father, with whom he has lost intense contact since the death of his mother. This December 31, the old man, Don Juan Cristo, his father, with whom he also adjoins his farm, appears again at his door, so that they finally agree, on this last day of the term after ten years of the death of his mother , the destruction of the fence that divides their lands, so that she stops being a soul in pain, and so that the municipality does not take these lands at its will.
Maria Full of Grace
ADR & Dubbing
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Esmeraldero
ADR Recordist
The true story of the rise of a Japanese businessman from Los Angeles named Eishy Hayata from an Airline engineer into the legend of the Emerald world -- the Emerald Cowboy
La primera noche
Supervising Sound Editor
A couple of farmers have been displaced from their land, a jungle area, isolated from the world, where lived his childhood and youth, and was brutally thrown to face the streets of an unfamiliar city, huge and ruthless.
Bogotá 2016
Sound Editor
Three scripts, each one with independent storylines, have in common a vision of the Colombian capital in 2016.