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Federico Mejía Guinand
Director, Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Mejía Guinand is the Director of Babilla Ciné, a production and distribution company established in Bogota, Colombia, with an extensive catalog of independent films, always controversial, radical and irreverent.
For more than one decade Babilla Ciné has successfully distributed more than 100 titles in the commercial and independent circuits and established themselves as one of the most important distributing companies of Latin America.
He has produced the feature films Violeta de Mil Colores and Dios los Junta y ellos se separan (with over 250,000 spectators) and is working on the project Burn Out, based on the book Human Resources, which won the Rolex Mentor scholarship, and was written under the trusteeship of Mario Vargas Llosa.
As a producer, he obtained the Stimulus for the conclusion of the feature film Violeta no está muerta (Bogotá 2004), that was granted by the National Fund for the Cinematographic Development.
The Artist in Development (AidD II) program, coordinated by the Cultural Industries Division of UNESCO and financed with funds from the Norwegian government, included Babilla Ciné within its program for reinforcing cultural industries in developing countries, with the aim of constructing a strategy that allows to create an alternating network of movie theatres which serve to stimulate and to guarantee the cultural diversity.
At the moment Ciné Babilla is mounting BABILLA MULTIPLEX CINEMA and managing CINEMA PARADISE theatre. |
