Film

Gonzalo Escobar

Princess Grace Award:
Undergraduate Film Scholarship - Experimental Narrative, 2007

GONZALO ESCOBAR MORA (1982, Bogotá).  Filmmaker and moving image artist.  Master’s in film directing from the film.factory program in Sarajevo, under the mentorship of hungarian director Be?la Tarr.  Bachelor of Fine Arts with emphasis on film and video, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work encompasses short films, installations, video art, documentaries, film essay, questioning formal definitions and exploring intersections between the personal and the political.  He has worked in in a variety of projects throughout Latin America. His collaboration film “tHERE" was a result from a trip to Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. As a Princess Grace Award recipient, Gonzalo's thesis project took place in Colombia, where he combined filmmaking along with street interventions.  His work has been shown in places such as the Museum of Modern Art in North Miami, the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, festivals such as True/False in Missouri, and international festivals such as CineSul in Brazil, Art on Display in Romania, Against the Silence in Mexico, Viña del Mar in Chile, the Sarajevo Film Festival in BiH, and the Cartagena International Film Festival, in Colombia.

website: http://www.bistrikseven.com/gonzaloescobarmora/