Nicolas Ordoñez

Literature graduate of the University of Los Andes (Colombia) with a Masters in Comparative Literature Theory of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He attended the workshop How to tell a story, taught by Literature Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. He has worked as an essayist and photographer for press & media companies such as El Espectador Journal (Col), Soho Magazine (Col), Internazionale Magazine (Ita), El Malpensante (Col), or El País Journal (Esp). He was Jury for the Unpublished Script Contest at the 32 Havana Film Festival. Directed the documentary feature film Trip Voyeur (Official Competition for the Poor Film Festival, Gibara, Cuba, 2010). Was Director of Photography in the feature film Giraffes, premiered at the IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam). His second feature film as Director of Photography, Venice, is in post-production. He exhibited his first photographic series, Glamour in the Rubble (2011), in Gaia House, Havana, then published by El Malpensante magazine. His second series, eXtras, was inaugurated in the 33rd Havana Film Festival; then in March 2012 was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, in the 52nd International Film Festival of Cartagena, and recently exhibited at the Cinematheque of Bogotá during the months of January and February 2013. From 2008 until 2012, Ordóñez worked as Creative Director and Photographer for the International Film & TV School, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, which was funded by the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. He is based in Bogotá, Colombia, where he focuses on the realization of Film, Advertising and Photographic Series, such as The Book of Trades.