Diego García Moreno(I)
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Diego García Moreno is a director, producer and teacher of documentary film and video. He was a founding member of the "Alados" Documentary Association and is the current director of Lamaraca Producciones.
Before starting his career as a filmmaker, García Moreno worked as a musician, theater actor, ornithologist, poet, and commercial aviator on regional routes in Medellín, his hometown, until in 1977 he entered the Louis Lumiére National Film School in Paris. (France). During his stay in this city, he attended different courses and workshops at the French Production Society, the Universities Paris III, Paris VIII, El Museo del Hombre and was working as a director of photography in different documentary productions with Latin American themes in Europe.
After his stay in Paris, García Moreno returned to Colombia in 1985 and made The Ballad of the Sea not seen (fiction) and the documentaries, Manrique my old neighborhood and El Oro by María del Pardo. That same year, he founded the production company Alucine, where he produced different pieces for television and advertising. He was a photographer and cameraman for filmmakers such as Luís Ospina, Catalina Villar, Luis Alberto Restrepo, Gonzalo Justiniano and Sergio García and director for a short period of the TV program Gaceta de Colcultura, among others.
At the end of 1989 he returned to France and worked with various production houses and television networks as a producer and director of documentaries such as El spectator, Toupie or not toupie, El islet and Domingo de Feria, and began the production of Las castanets de Notre Dame. In addition, in different visits to the country, he makes several of the documentaries that will be part of the retrospective to be presented at the Museum of Antioquia, including Colombia elemental, a trilogy composed of La arepa, El trompo and La corbata. In 1992 he meets Sally Station, an American musical composer and they decide to travel together to Chicago for a short period of time. They would get married there in 1994 and the From Chicago to Medellín documentary project was born, winner of the Illinois Arts Council Grant (1995) and the Colcultura Grant in 1996. As the birth of his son Tomás approaches, he returns definitively to Colombia. This event inspired Colombia Horizontal: the bed, the hammock, the mat, the sidewalk and the coffin, later complemented with The writers of the city, Colombia with meaning, The canoe of life and Making suitcases. After winning the 1999 Mincultura film competition award with Las castanets de Notre Dame, he was co-produced with Pathé Doc from France.
Diego García traveled to Chicago (USA) in 2002 and after a couple of years of itinerant efforts and the dissemination of Colombian documentaries in North America and Europe, writing and developing projects, he returned to Colombia in 2004 to produce El corazón ( 2006), documentary winner of the Development Fund incentives (2004); received the National Prize for Culture from the University of Antioquia (2006); and the Latino Award at the Atlantidoc Festival in Uruguay. "The launch of this documentary feature film marked a milestone in national distribution as it was screened simultaneously in more than 150 theaters in the most diverse geography of the country." The heart represented Colombia in almost 30 international festivals, including London, New York, Sydney, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires, Vancouver and many others.
In May 2008 he directed and produced Y como para qué arte de qué, a production of the Ministry of Culture with the support of regional channels, universities, artists and curators. A memory in the form of an email that tells the creation processes of artists and regional curatorships as well as the role that art plays in a country plagued by conflict, ecological devastation, disrespect for diversity and the absurd citizen . To end 2008, Lamaraca producciones, in association with the Arts Department of the Ministry of Culture, produced the documentary ¡Danza, Colombia! -Travel region Zenú- Montes de María Cartagena-, a tribute to the body and movement in times of war through the diversity and richness of dance in the Caribbean region; This 52 minutes is in turn a proposal to recognize the country body, its diversity, its processes of miscegenation and globalization. In parallel, he produces and makes the documentary Beatriz gonzález why does she cry if I already laughed? (2010) about the plastic artist Beatriz González, winner of the FDC2006 film contest. This work won the Simón Bolívar Prize for journalism (best audiovisual chronicle), and best film at the art film festival in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2012 he conceived the distribution event Projecting Memory, art cinema and reflection for the funeral spaces of Colombia. In 2014 he performed Clan-destinations for Idartes and in 2015, for the Free Theater, La Tragedia: Entre Telones. He is the winner of the FDC for short films with Hugo Zapata: Cantos de Piedra.
García Moreno was a teacher at the School of Arts of the National University of Medellín (1986). He gave documentary workshops at the Film School of the National University of Colombia (2000) in Bogotá; in the postgraduate degree in communications from the Universidad de Los Andes (2000); at the Arts Faculty of the Universidad de los Andes (2005-2007); Director of Photography in the film postgraduate course at Universidad del Rosario (1999-2000); production of documentaries at EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba, and production at the Diploma in Documentaries at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (2005). Between 1999 and 2016 he dictated the modules for the production and direction of photography in the workshops organized by the Ministry of Culture, INI, Imagining our Image. Since 2013, he has been teaching documentary chair at the ENACC National Film School, and making El Taller de la memoria, documentaries in areas affected by the conflict.
Last Updated: April, 2018
Before starting his career as a filmmaker, García Moreno worked as a musician, theater actor, ornithologist, poet, and commercial aviator on regional routes in Medellín, his hometown, until in 1977 he entered the Louis Lumiére National Film School in Paris. (France). During his stay in this city, he attended different courses and workshops at the French Production Society, the Universities Paris III, Paris VIII, El Museo del Hombre and was working as a director of photography in different documentary productions with Latin American themes in Europe.
After his stay in Paris, García Moreno returned to Colombia in 1985 and made The Ballad of the Sea not seen (fiction) and the documentaries, Manrique my old neighborhood and El Oro by María del Pardo. That same year, he founded the production company Alucine, where he produced different pieces for television and advertising. He was a photographer and cameraman for filmmakers such as Luís Ospina, Catalina Villar, Luis Alberto Restrepo, Gonzalo Justiniano and Sergio García and director for a short period of the TV program Gaceta de Colcultura, among others.
At the end of 1989 he returned to France and worked with various production houses and television networks as a producer and director of documentaries such as El spectator, Toupie or not toupie, El islet and Domingo de Feria, and began the production of Las castanets de Notre Dame. In addition, in different visits to the country, he makes several of the documentaries that will be part of the retrospective to be presented at the Museum of Antioquia, including Colombia elemental, a trilogy composed of La arepa, El trompo and La corbata. In 1992 he meets Sally Station, an American musical composer and they decide to travel together to Chicago for a short period of time. They would get married there in 1994 and the From Chicago to Medellín documentary project was born, winner of the Illinois Arts Council Grant (1995) and the Colcultura Grant in 1996. As the birth of his son Tomás approaches, he returns definitively to Colombia. This event inspired Colombia Horizontal: the bed, the hammock, the mat, the sidewalk and the coffin, later complemented with The writers of the city, Colombia with meaning, The canoe of life and Making suitcases. After winning the 1999 Mincultura film competition award with Las castanets de Notre Dame, he was co-produced with Pathé Doc from France.
Diego García traveled to Chicago (USA) in 2002 and after a couple of years of itinerant efforts and the dissemination of Colombian documentaries in North America and Europe, writing and developing projects, he returned to Colombia in 2004 to produce El corazón ( 2006), documentary winner of the Development Fund incentives (2004); received the National Prize for Culture from the University of Antioquia (2006); and the Latino Award at the Atlantidoc Festival in Uruguay. "The launch of this documentary feature film marked a milestone in national distribution as it was screened simultaneously in more than 150 theaters in the most diverse geography of the country." The heart represented Colombia in almost 30 international festivals, including London, New York, Sydney, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires, Vancouver and many others.
In May 2008 he directed and produced Y como para qué arte de qué, a production of the Ministry of Culture with the support of regional channels, universities, artists and curators. A memory in the form of an email that tells the creation processes of artists and regional curatorships as well as the role that art plays in a country plagued by conflict, ecological devastation, disrespect for diversity and the absurd citizen . To end 2008, Lamaraca producciones, in association with the Arts Department of the Ministry of Culture, produced the documentary ¡Danza, Colombia! -Travel region Zenú- Montes de María Cartagena-, a tribute to the body and movement in times of war through the diversity and richness of dance in the Caribbean region; This 52 minutes is in turn a proposal to recognize the country body, its diversity, its processes of miscegenation and globalization. In parallel, he produces and makes the documentary Beatriz gonzález why does she cry if I already laughed? (2010) about the plastic artist Beatriz González, winner of the FDC2006 film contest. This work won the Simón Bolívar Prize for journalism (best audiovisual chronicle), and best film at the art film festival in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2012 he conceived the distribution event Projecting Memory, art cinema and reflection for the funeral spaces of Colombia. In 2014 he performed Clan-destinations for Idartes and in 2015, for the Free Theater, La Tragedia: Entre Telones. He is the winner of the FDC for short films with Hugo Zapata: Cantos de Piedra.
García Moreno was a teacher at the School of Arts of the National University of Medellín (1986). He gave documentary workshops at the Film School of the National University of Colombia (2000) in Bogotá; in the postgraduate degree in communications from the Universidad de Los Andes (2000); at the Arts Faculty of the Universidad de los Andes (2005-2007); Director of Photography in the film postgraduate course at Universidad del Rosario (1999-2000); production of documentaries at EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba, and production at the Diploma in Documentaries at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (2005). Between 1999 and 2016 he dictated the modules for the production and direction of photography in the workshops organized by the Ministry of Culture, INI, Imagining our Image. Since 2013, he has been teaching documentary chair at the ENACC National Film School, and making El Taller de la memoria, documentaries in areas affected by the conflict.
Last Updated: April, 2018