Luis Fernando Bottia

Luis Fernando Bottía (1954-) was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. He graduated in Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes (Andes University) of Bogota. He was film reviewer at the Diario del Caribe Newspaper and professor of the Universidad Autónoma del Caribe y del Norte (Autonomous University of The Caribbean and the North) in Barranquilla. His work in the cinema as filmmaker and screenwriter began in the 1980s decade. In 1981, he received a mention in the Cocultura Film festival, Colombia for Carnaval en blanco y negro (screenwriter and director). He won the First Prize at the Bogota Film Festival (1983) and the same year the special mention in Huelva Latin Film Festival (Spain) for the medium length film El Guacamaya (screenwriter and director). In 1986, he released his first feature film, La boda del acordionista, which won the Coral award for the Best First Work at the New Internationa Festival of the New Latin American Cinema of .Havana, Cuba. He also won some awards at the 3rd International Bogota Film Salon, the Nantes Film Festival (France) and at the Bogota Film Festival. In 1987 he directed the TV series Corralejas, which was winner of the Simon Bolivar National TV prize (1987) and of the India Catalina award at the Cartagena Film Festival. In 1990, his script Aluna was chosen by 2nd Call of the Film Projects for Children and Youth (Proyectos Cinematográficos para la Infancia y la Juventud ) in Mexico; thanks to this he was invited to participate at…