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Andi Baiz – Creative Elements
Andi Baiz was born in Cali, Colombia in 1975. He coursed high-school in Cali at the Bolivar School and then traveled to New York to study Cinema Studies and Filmmaking at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University (NYU). He graduated with honors in 1999. He was mentored by acclaimed French director Raphael Nadjari and worked with him in several horror shorts and scripts. In New York City he worked in the production department of several features: Bringing Out the Dead, by Martin Scorsese, Cremaster 2 by Mathew Barney, Zoolander by Ben Stiller, The Fittest of the Crook Brothers, and Maria Full of Grace by Joshua Marston. In 2000 he created Centro-Films Ltd., a film and video production company based in NYC, where he worked as producer, director and editor of TV spots and corporate videos for 3 years. His New York period also includes the production and direction of 5 shorts, 2 music videos, and the documentary Penumbra (Shadows) which received awards in various Film Festivals. During this period he also worked as film critic for LOFT, a Miami based magazine targeting Latin-American men.
Currently Andi lives in Bogotá, Colombia. Between 2005 and 2007 he wrote and directed his first feature film, Satanás (Satan), which received the Best Picture award at the Emerging Talent Film Festival in Montecarlo, Monaco, in May 2007. The film received a Honorific Mention at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2007, and has participated in several film festivals around the world. Satanás has been selected by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia to represent he country on the 2008 Oscar awards.
In this period he also wrote and directed his short Hoguera (Bonfire), shot in Cali in 2007, it was selected by the prestigious “Quinzaine des Realisateurs” at the 2007 Cannes Fim Festival. His last work as Director was the short De Paso (Passing by), starring the Latin diva Angie Cepeda. This short has been distributed by web conglomerate Terra Networks in several international territories. Colombian film critic Orlando Mora recognized Andi as “the most gifted Colombian film narrator in recent years, a director who will soon be part of the top film talent list in Latin-America”.
Film investments
Anger (Rabia):
An impossible relationship played by two lovers condemned to live in the same bourgeois mansion. He’s hiding. She’s free. And both will have to surrender to the consequences of a crime… and the anger from which it emerged.
Christmas Night (Noche Buena):
A Colombian upper class family will go through its worst (and most ridiculous) economic and domestic crisis ever… precisely on Christmas Eve. The final eruption of the Truth will occur at midnight.
Undertow:
A love-ghost from the past will make Miguel accept his true essence… before society and before himself.
