Born in Bogotá, Catalina Villar came to France at the age of 20 to study Social Sciences at the EHESS, then trained in filmmaking at the Ateliers Varan and at the FEMIS in directing. She joined the Ateliers Varan team in 2000 and organized three courses in Colombia (Bogotá and Cali), one in Venezuela (Mérida) and one in Albania (Tirana). She took part in the workshops in Lisbon, Marseille and Recife and has been supervising production and writing workshops in Paris since 2000. She is also in charge of the Documentary Writing Workshop at La Fémis and has lectured at various Masters and Film Schools (Cuba, Spain, Colombia, etc.). Parallelly, she continues to make documentary films.