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Rodrigo Guerrero – Production Elements
He was born in Cali, Colombia in 1975. He coursed high-school at Colegio Bolivar in his home city. In 1994 he traveled to Siena, Italy to course studies in European Cinema. After this experience he went to study Film Production and Direction at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York University (NYU). In 1999 he graduated within the top 5% of his class. He lived in New York City for 8 years, and returned to Colombia in 2004 to set up the film production company Proyecto Tucán in partnership with acclaimed Colombian producer Jaime Osorio Gómez and Andi Baiz.
In 2006 Rodrigo produced the Colombian feature “Satanás” (directed by Andi Baiz). This film was selected to represent Colombia in the 2008 Academy Awards’ Foreign Language category; it won the Best Picture and Best Actor awards at the 2007 Emerging Talent Film Festival in Monte Carlo, Monaco; it also receive an Honorific Mention at the 2007 San Sebastian Film Festival; and the Best Colombian Film Award at the 2007 Bogotá International Film Festival. Satanás has been selected in several other festivals, among them, Miami, Morelia, Huelva, Rio de Janeiro, and the 2007 Latin Films Exhibition at MoMA in New York.
He also produced the shorts “Hoguera” (Bonfire), directed by Andi Baiz and shot in 2007 (selected by the prestigious “Quinzaine des Realisateurs” at the 2007 Cannes Fim Festival) and “De Paso” (Passing by), also directed by Andi Baiz and starring Latin diva Angie Cepeda. This short has been distributed by web conglomerate Terra Networks in several international territories. He Executive Produced the Colombian feature “La Milagrosa” (directed by Rafael Lara), shot in 2007.
As Associated Producer Rodrigo has received credits in the features King Midas, directed by Brandon Cole, and Maria Full of Grace, directed by Joshua Marston, produced by Paul Mezey and co-produced b Jaime Osorio Gómez for HBO films. Maria Full of Grace received 23 international awards and 17 nominations from international festivals and critics circles, including the Audience Award at Sundance 2005, a Best Actress Silver Bear in Berlin for Catalina Sandino Moreno, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in the Oscars 2005. He was Associated Producer of the animated short film “Una de Espantos” (A spooky tale) directed by Andrés Felipe Zuluaga, distributed in the screens of Cine Colombia during 2006 and winner of the Guadalajara Animation Film Festival 2007 in Mexico.
As Director of Photography he has worked in 23 shorts, 14 music videos and the features “King Midas” (by Brandon Cole), Once a Year (by Paul Magid), “Little Kingston” a documentary directed by Daniel Lir; “Reunión” (by Bob Giraldi), “The Stone Raft” a documentary on Literature Nobel Prize José Saramago (by David Khamis), and 2nd Unit Photography for Maria Full of Grace’s Colombian sequences.
He also worked for 2 years as Producer, Director and Editor in Heavy Inc., a New York based audiovisual production company that pioneered the broadband web video market.
Rodrigo has in depth knowledge of the film production process thanks to his work in different positions in several feature films: Art Director Assistant in the feature “Belly” directed by acclaimed video clips director Hype Williams and produced by The Shooting Gallery; gaffer in the feature “Static”, directed by Sam Grossman; Art Director in Krutin Patel’s film “A,B,C,D” which received several awards; Production Assistant in the features “Finding Forrester” (by Gus Van Sant – starring Sean Connery), “Made” (by John Favreau), “Double Whammy” (by Tom DiCillo), and in Warner Brothers’ TV series “Third Watch”.
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.
