Ana Rosa
Documentary, France: Columbia, 2023, 93’
Marcorelles Prize, Cinéma du Réel 2023
Career
Franco-Columbian director
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.
Filmography
director (selective)
Camino
Co-dir. Catalina Villar & Yves de Peretti, documentary, France, 2018, 79’
Maux d’enfants, mots d’adultes
Co-dir. Catalina Villar & Yves de Peretti, documentary, France, 2017, 55’
La nouvelle Medellin
Documentary, France, 2016, 85’
Cinéma du Réel (Paris) ; Cinelatino (Toulouse) ; Doc en Cévennes festival (Lasalle) ; BIFF (Bogota)
Invente-moi un pays
Documentary, France, 2005, 59’
La légende de la mère perdue
Co-written with asylum seeking children in Melun, fiction, 2004
Bienvenidos a Colombia
Documentary, France, 2002, 62’
Festival des 3 continents, (Nantes) ; Cinélatino (Toulouse) ; FIPA (Biarritz, 2003)
Patricio Guzman, une historie chilienne
Documentary, France, 2001, 54’
Toto la Momposina, une voix pour la Colombie
Documentary, France, 1998, 52’
Cahiers de Medellin
Documentary, 1997-1998
Feature prize and Public’s prize at the Visions du Réel festival Nyon, (Switzerland); SCAM discovery prize; Grand prize at the Amas Cultura Festival (Portugal); Award of Merit in Film, Matin American studies Association, USA
Les parains de la drogue
Documentary, France, 1995
Séjour
Fiction, France, 1992, 20’
Jury prize at the Larissa festival (Greece); Internation short film festival of Clermont-Ferrand
writer
El Espectador
Dir. Clause Massot, documentary, France, 1990
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