Oscar Ruiz Navia

Oscar Ruiz Navia

Birth : 1982-06-22, Cali, Colombia

History

Oscar Ruiz Navia is a cinephile who never attended a proper film school. Part of a new generation of Colombian filmmakers, he developed his interest in film on his own, and in 2006 founded Contravía (“Another Way,” in English), a production company to develop art house films in his country, where there is not a huge film industry. His first feature, Crab Trap (2010), won several awards, including the FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival that year.

Profile

Oscar Ruiz Navia

Movies

Turbia
Screenplay
Turbia
Producer
Turbia
Director
Dopamina
Producer
Ricardo, Natalia's father, suffers from Parkinson's disease; in that condition he stopped producing Dopamine. Surviving a very strong family crisis, Natalia told them her sexual orientation. She does not understand why after being left-wing militants and fighting for equality and freedom, they could not accept her choice.
Fait Vivir
Director of Photography
Manuk, a 4yo tells the legend of Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, 18 gypsies between musicians, dancers, and circus actors who invented the show titled 'MAKONDO'
Fait Vivir
Writer
Manuk, a 4yo tells the legend of Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, 18 gypsies between musicians, dancers, and circus actors who invented the show titled 'MAKONDO'
Fait Vivir
Producer
Manuk, a 4yo tells the legend of Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, 18 gypsies between musicians, dancers, and circus actors who invented the show titled 'MAKONDO'
Fait Vivir
Director
Manuk, a 4yo tells the legend of Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, 18 gypsies between musicians, dancers, and circus actors who invented the show titled 'MAKONDO'
Colombiennes
Director
Epiphany
Producer
Two filmmakers from different countries explore the memories of their mothers, to create a narrative fiction concerning the recovery of life.
Epiphany
Writer
Two filmmakers from different countries explore the memories of their mothers, to create a narrative fiction concerning the recovery of life.
Epiphany
Director
Two filmmakers from different countries explore the memories of their mothers, to create a narrative fiction concerning the recovery of life.
Santiamén
Cinematography
The strange voice of Yukie guides us through her memories before the end of time. Yukie awakens in the bodies of other women and recognizes herself in different places. William Vega, who premiered his first feature La Sirga at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight, takes material from diverse sources and assembles it to show, with sensual melancholy, the fate of a woman in her transit through the “final days” of a world that, like in Eliot’s poem, ends not with a bang but with a whimper.
El Peñón
Director
Located in the department of Santander, El Peñón is a place that thanks to its geological conditions offers one of the most particular biodiversity in the country. A foreign scientist who dedicated his life to the study of its caves, which are the largest and oldest in the country, and a group of scientists who explore its exterior penetrate this territory, while its inhabitants tell stories full of silences that fluctuate between the splendor of the landscape in which they grew up and the rigors of the violence they faced.
Siembra
Producer
A man and his son move from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Cali, but have a difficult time adapting to the city. When his son is killed, the father must go through the hard process of grief while trying to find roots in a place that does not belong to him.
Los Hongos
Writer
Ras is a graffiti artist from the city of Cali who works in construction, he works during the day and paints walls at night. One day he is caught stealing cans of paint from the construction site where he works, for which he is fired. With no money, he will look for Calvin, another popular urban artist. Both will circulate through the streets without a fixed destination, spreading their art to every corner.
Los Hongos
Director
Ras is a graffiti artist from the city of Cali who works in construction, he works during the day and paints walls at night. One day he is caught stealing cans of paint from the construction site where he works, for which he is fired. With no money, he will look for Calvin, another popular urban artist. Both will circulate through the streets without a fixed destination, spreading their art to every corner.
Solecito
Director
It was during a casting session in their school that the two personages of this film met the director. Each separately told him the story of how they had broken up. And what if fiction allowed them to get back together again?
The Towrope
Producer
In this poetic, richly allegorical debut by Colombian director William Vega, a teenage girl flees to a rundown inn after being driven from her home in the Andean highlands by civil war, as the violence engulfing the country creeps ever closer to her remote refuge. (TIFF)
Crab Trap
Director
A drama set in the black communities of Colombia's Pacific coast, where a man looking to flee the country by boat encounters a local fisherman.
Blackmaria
Producer
Belisario's wife is very ill. A healer comes to meet them. He gives Belisario the mission of climbing the Andes to bring back a powerful object buried in the snow and try to save her.