Catalina Mesa

Catalina Mesa was born and raised in Colombia. While completing her high school studies there she trained in classical ballet and modern dance at the Silvia Rolls Academy and the Claudia Cadena Academy, respectively. After finishing high school, she traveled to Boston, where she earned a diploma in Management and Communications from Boston College. She worked for several years in New York with a transmedia production company, designing transmedia projects for European brands and magazines. Next, she traveled to Paris to begin a new creative search. After immersing herself in the French language, Catalina completed a degree in History of Performing Arts at the Sorbonne. At the end of her first year, she shifted her focus to Literature, as writing has been a constant habit throughout her life. While engaged in these studies during her early years in Paris, she made several trips to the East: India, Japan, Bhutan. Her first literary work, a book of photography and poetry titled "The Elixir of the Dragon", grew out of her trip to Bhutan. At the end of her time at the Sorbonne, she turned her gaze to the art of images, feeling a need to supplement her desire for transmission and creation through different means. She entered a new phase of training in photography, video, and editing at the Gobelins School in Paris before going on to study filmmaking at the FEMIS film school in Paris, and then taking courses in digital cinematography and direction at UCLA. During this final period of studies in Paris, Catalina set up Miravus, a production house where for six years she produced photography and audiovisual projects for a variety of brands in the worlds of fashion, art, music, and interior design. She also created audiovisual portraits of artists and institutional videos. Her work with an institution in the city of Lille called "Design for Change" resulted in a documentary that chronicles the evolution of an urban transformation project called "Farm for Change". After completing the documentary, she returned to Colombia to begin a project that celebrates the identity and preserves the memory of the feminine spirit of her culture of origin in the town of Jericó, the village of her ancestors. Out of this cultural immersion and her encounters with the women of this village comes her first feature film called "The Infinite Flight of Days."