Colombian Film Commission to Launch New Publication at Cannes Festival 
"Colombia: A World of Discoveries" is the title of the new production guide
The Colombian Film Commission returns to the Cannes Film Festival for the fifth consecutive year to continue its promotion of Colombia as the ideal place for every kind of international audiovisual production. Representatives from the Commission will be settling into the now perennial Colombia Pavilion (Number 101 in the International Village) at the Marché du Film, the world's largest film market. This is also the ideal setting in which to present the new production guide: "Colombia: A World of Discoveries"to a variety of international film industry reps. The new guide contains much more specific information regarding the country's ever-increasing production infrastructure, continually evolving human resources capable of pulling off the most complex audiovisual challenges, improved economic incentives and infrastructure developed over the past few years, and the latest Colombian audiovisual releases: TV series, films, commercials, film co-productions, etc. along with other information for those interested in producing in Colombia.
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Colombia Present at Cannes Festival: Co-Production Projects in Les Cinémas du Monde and Film Execs in Producers Network 
Producers Network to host "Spotlight on Colombian Producers"
Cenizas del perdón, a project in development by Colombia's Antorcha Films, co-directed by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza and African Ndunga Nsangata, and Sangre en la boca co-produced with Argentina by Colombia's Dia Fragma Fábrica de Películas, are two of the film projects featured at the Cinémas du Monde pavilion in the 8th Producers Network, part of the Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film. And, thanks to PROIMAGENES Colombia, producers Alina Hleap of Enic Producciones, Oscar Ruiz Navia of Contravía Films, Diego Ramirez of 64-a Films, Rodrigo Guerrero of Dynamo Capital and Federico Duran of Rhayuela Cine will be attending the Producers Network in the "Spotlight on Colombian Producers" scheduled for Friday May 13 as part of the six-day "Spotlight" series that focuses on producers from some of the 55 participating countries.
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 | Colombo-American Patricia Cardoso Premieres New Short Film Deep Blue Breath title of new film
On April 30, 2011, at a benefit for the Make a Film Foundation (MAFF), Deep Blue Breath directed by Colombo-American Patricia Cardoso, (director of Real Women Have Curves) had its world premiere. The short film written by Clay Beabout, who plays the lead in this story based on his own life, narrates the adventures of a boy living with a rare and potentially lethal disease called V.A.T.E.R. Syndrome (vertebrae, anus, trachea, esophagus, and renal syndrome). 11- year old Clay's parents in the film are played by Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings) and Natasha Gregson. Miguel Sandoval (Médium) plays the surgeon who tries to save the boy's life through major surgery. In the operating room, Clay travels to an animated world where he becomes an action figure – a superhero who along with his companion "Charger" (a black rescue puppy) fights the potentially life-threatening disease, Lord Vater (voice by Ernie Hudson).
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Spain's Most Important Daily Publishes Article on Madrid-Colombia Producers' Encounter 
Colombia: "Latin American Filmmaking Diamond in the Rough"
Spain's premiere daily El País published an article during the recent meeting in Madrid of 7 producers from Colombia and 10 from Madrid. The article extols the virtues of Colombia for audiovisual production. Beneath the headline "Producers Exchange Los Angeles for Bogotá" journalist Veronica Calderon goes on to say that "more and more international productions are choosing to make their films and TV series in studios set up in this South American country. And more and more producers are looking south." As an example, the writer cites the North American series Mental produced by Fox-Telecolombia in which "the story takes place in an LA hospital but the studio where the production crew shoots is actually in the Colombian capital city of Bogotá." The article also highlights the positive image Colombia is acquiring around the world. Manuel Soria, technical director of the Madrid Film Commission, defined Colombia as "a Latin American diamond in the rough for filmmakers."
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 | Patricia Cardoso, Director of Deep Blue Breath
Colombo-American director. Daughter of architects, majored in archeology and anthropology. Winner of the Best Student Award from the Academy for El Aguador. Left her native Colombia for the United States in 1987. Taught archeology at Universidad Javeriana and was co-director of Colombia's Instituto de Cultura. Secured the oldest Carbon 14 dating for the ancient Tairona culture and published several articles in archeology journals.
In 1987 Cardoso left Colombia to live in the US and study film on a Fulbright Scholarship at UCLA, where she graduated in 1994. She worked for five years at the Sundance Festival where she became Latin American Program Director. Her filmography as a director includes the short films Aisle of Dreams (1989), The Air Globes (1990), Cartas al niño Dios (1991), The Water Carrier (1996) and Deep Blue Breath (2011); medium-length films include The Water of Cucunuba (1994) and El reino de los cielos (1994). Her first feature Real Women Have Curves (2002) won the Special Jury Award and the Audience Choice Award at Sundance and the Youth Prize at the San Sebastian Festival, both in 2002. She also directed the TV series "Lies in Plain Sight".
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 | International Trailer for Colombian Film Porfirio Selected for Directors Fortnight 2011
International trailer for Porfirio by Alejandro Landes, co-production between Colombia, Spain, Uruguay, Argentina and France that will screen from May 12-22 at the 43rd Directors Fortnight in Cannes. Porfirio is the first Colombian film shot entirely in CinemaScope in order to transmit the lead character's complex horizontal universe. It will be competing for a Golden Camera in this category created by the French Directors Guild with films from Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, the Philippines, France, Holland, Sweden and many other.
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Colombia Delegation of Over 100 Representatives at Smithsonian Festival
Colombia is the guest of honor at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the largest festival of its kind in the US. One hundred Colombian artists including musicians, cooks, fishermen, farmers, potters, weavers and transportation workers will perform their trades live and talk with Festival visitors in a gigantic open-air folk museum displaying Colombia's rich, varied culture from June 30 to July 11 on Washington D.C.'s emblematic National Mall. Under the heading "Colombia: The Nature of Culture" an academic and artistic program has been designed to highlight and honor the country's richly diverse nature and culture. The program focuses on the ancestral wisdom and practices of six eco-systems: the Southeastern Plains, the tropical rain forest, the Mompox Basin, the Pacific rain forest, the Andean Savannah, the hilly coffee region and three urban eco-systems: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. "This year, the 1.5 million people who visit the Smithsonian Festival every year will have a chance to travel through Colombia. They'll climb its mountains, descend onto its plains and cross its rivers and oceans to discover our rich and diverse popular and ancestral traditions," Colombian Minister of Culture Mariana Garcés Córdoba stated the day of the official presentation of Colombia's delegation.
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"Porfirio" is a minimalist work, its cast drawn from those close to Ramirez. It was made for under $1 million, shot in less than seven weeks by a small team assembled by producer Francisco Aljure, 40, who left his high-finance job on Wall Street to make movies in his native Colombia.
Landes, a 30-year-old filmmaker whose first film, about the rise of the Bolivian indigenous leader Evo Morales, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, purposefully makes "Porfirio" ambiguous.
There is no narration explaining that Ramirez is the real-life Porfirio, or that his desperation led him to hijack a Florencia-to-Bogota flight in 2005. There is no violence. But there is a growing sense of foreboding as Porfirio's inability to get the state to respond forces his hand.
The power of the 101-minute film comes with its intense focus on one man's suffering, serving as a burnishing reminder of how the chaos of the country's civil conflict touches people far from its big, modern cities.
Article published in The Washington Post on the occasion of the Colombian film Porfirio's screening at the Cannes Festival on Saturday, May 14.
Antorcha Films
Address: Calle 19N #2N-29 Oficina 3003 Cali, Colombia
Phone: (+572) 6833282 - 6809630
info@antorchafilms.com
www.antorchafilms.com
Colombian film production company founded in 2003. During its first years, in addition to spots and music videos, the company produced several short films that won national and international awards. Antorcha's successful feature films include director Carlos Moreno's "Perro come perro" ("Dog Eat Dog") and "En coma" directed by Juan David Restrepo and Henry Rivero and co-produced by Efe-X. The company has provided production services in Colombia to films such as the German "Dr. Alemán" directed by Tom Schreiber and is currently in pre-production on the animated feature "Anina" to be co-produced by the Uruguayan Rain Dogs Cinema. In addition the company has twelve other feature films, two documentaries and four television series in development.
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Amacayacu National Park
Región: Amazon Region
Ciudad: Puerto Nariño
Departamento: Amazonas
Nombre: Parque Nacional Amacayacu
Descripción: Amacayacu National Park is a national park located along the Amazon River in the Amazonas Department in the south of Colombia. The word "Amacayacu" means "River of the Hamocs" in the indigenous language Quechua.
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