Sergio Cabrera
Honorary Director
Is a Director, Screenwriter, Film and Television Producer. He has directed some of the most iconic movies and television series in Colombia in recent years.
He studied Philosophy at the University of Peking and as an amateur he made his first works in film. Later, he moved to England where he studied film at the London Polytechnic School and the London Film School.
Back in Colombia, in 1977, he directed his first short films and worked as a director of photography, among his credits are: “AMOR CIEGO” (1980) and “PADRE POR ACCIDENTE” (1981), and collaborated as a cameraman in “PURA SANGRE” (1982) by Luis Ospina y Condores and “CONDORES NO ENTIERRA TODOS LOS DÍAS” by Francisco Norden (1984).
In 1989 he premiered his feature film “TÉCNICAS DE DUELO”, which received the award for Best First Feature Film at the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival, the Silver Makhila for Best First Feature at the International Iberian and Latin American Festival Film in Biarritz (France), the Special Jury Award at the New York Latino Film Festival, and the Best Film Award and Critics Award at the Gramado Latin and Brazilian Film Festival (Brazil).
Public recognition came with his second feature film, “LA ESTRATEGIA DEL CARACOL”, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1993, becoming his first film commercially shown internationally and an icon of Colombian cinematography. It received, among other recognitions, the Audience Award and the Award of the Federation of Art at the Biarritz Festival (France), the Golden Spike for Best Film, the Audience Award and the Youth Award at SEMINCI in Valladolid (Spain).
Among his other credits are “ÁGUILAS NO CAZAN MOSCAS”1994), “ILONA LLEGA CON LLUVIA” (1996), “GOLPE DE ESTADIO” (1998) which gave César Mora a Special Mention for Best Actor at the Havana Festival; “PERDER ES CUESTION DE METODO” (2004), “TODOS SE VAN” (2015)
Since 1992 he has also directed television series in Colombia and Spain, among which are “LA MUJER DOBLE” (Caracol TV, 1992), “ESCALONA” (Caracol TV, 1992), “CANDELA” (Colombia, 1996), “SEVERO OCHOA” (Spain, 2001) , “CUÉNTAME COMO PASO” (Spain, 2004-2008), the most awarded Spanish series to date, the miniseries “ADOLFO SUÁREZ, EL PRESIDENTE” (Antena 3, Spain, 2010), “LA POLA” (RCN TV, 2010), “DR. MATA” ( RCN TV, 2014), and “GARZÓN VIVE”, (RCN TV, 2018) for each of these series he received the award for Best Series Director at the Catalina Awards of Colombian Television.
Mr. Cabrera has served as Head of the Department of Production at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (2000) and Professor of Cinematography at the Javeriana University of Bogotá (1992).
