Luis Fernando Bottia

Luis Fernando Bottia

출생 : 1954-01-01, Barranquilla, Colombia

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Luis Fernando Bottía (1954-) was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. He graduated in Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes (Andes University) of Bogota. He was film reviewer at the Diario del Caribe Newspaper and professor of the Universidad Autónoma del Caribe y del Norte (Autonomous University of The Caribbean and the North) in Barranquilla. His work in the cinema as filmmaker and screenwriter began in the 1980s decade. In 1981, he received a mention in the Cocultura Film festival, Colombia for Carnaval en blanco y negro (screenwriter and director). He won the First Prize at the Bogota Film Festival (1983) and the same year the special mention in Huelva Latin Film Festival (Spain) for the medium length film El Guacamaya (screenwriter and director). In 1986, he released his first feature film, La boda del acordionista, which won the Coral award for the Best First Work at the New Internationa Festival of the New Latin American Cinema of .Havana, Cuba. He also won some awards at the 3rd International Bogota Film Salon, the Nantes Film Festival (France) and at the Bogota Film Festival. In 1987 he directed the TV series Corralejas, which was winner of the Simon Bolivar National TV prize (1987) and of the India Catalina award at the Cartagena Film Festival. In 1990, his script Aluna was chosen by 2nd Call of the Film Projects for Children and Youth (Proyectos Cinematográficos para la Infancia y la Juventud ) in Mexico; thanks to this he was invited to participate at the International Projects Workshop that was organized by the Sundance Institute and the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In 1992 he wrote and directed the documentary video Cepeda y el Cine. In 1995, he was awarded as Best Director at the Racine Theather Festival, U.S. for his theater play Las muñecas que hace Juana no tienen ojos. In 1997, he directed the Colombian-Spanish documentaryLa Cartagena de García Márquez. In October 2002, his screenplay Las amigas was chosen to participate in the Latin America Feature Film Project Development Workshop & Competition, organized by the Motion Pictures Association of América – Latin America, Miami U.S. A.. In March 2003 he began his function as director of the Film and Audiovisual Program of the Magdalena University. In 2005 he won a grant in the post production category of the Film Development Fund with his second feature film Juana tenía el pelo de oro, which had already won the National Film Grant of Cocultura. This film was coproduced by Colombia, Mexico and Cuba and was released in Colombia in 2007.

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Luis Fernando Bottia

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Buscando a Gabo
Director
Documentary that tells the most human side of Gabriel García Márquez through the testimonies of family members, fellow journalists and writers. 'Buscando a Gabo' pursues the human Gabo, the one that can be revealed by the friends who were with him throughout his life, the one that has been lost in the biographical data.
Juana Had Hair of Gold
Writer
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.
Juana Had Hair of Gold
Director
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 Accordionist's Wedding
Screenplay
Adel is a singer from the Caribbean coast who wanders through the villages playing his accordion and falling in love with girls. He meets Blanca who gives him her love, he agrees to marry her and go to live with her in Barranquilla. Despite the promise, and the pressure of Blanca's family, it will be very difficult for Adel to fulfill his commitment: the same night of the wedding day he will be seduced and will be obsessed by La Mohana, goddess of the waters, about whose legend the old people tell more than one story.
The Accordionist's Wedding
Director
Adel is a singer from the Caribbean coast who wanders through the villages playing his accordion and falling in love with girls. He meets Blanca who gives him her love, he agrees to marry her and go to live with her in Barranquilla. Despite the promise, and the pressure of Blanca's family, it will be very difficult for Adel to fulfill his commitment: the same night of the wedding day he will be seduced and will be obsessed by La Mohana, goddess of the waters, about whose legend the old people tell more than one story.
El Faro
Co-Writer
El Faro
Director