René Perez, known as Residente, one of the most famous and controversial artists from Puerto Rico wanted to say something different. We suggested doing a DNA test to reveal his genetic makeup, the genes that reflect the convoluted history of humankind and the final twist of the Latin American story. The information becomes the basis for his latest album as we travel and film in all the regions that provided the biological makeup of his genes and work with local artists from Siberia to Ghana and from China to Niger to create a Grammy winning album that tells the story of one man and all of humanity.
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Responsible for: Concept, Field Production & Direction of Photography
RESIDENTE
For many seasons the war on drugs has provided hundreds of stories to US TV channels feeding an audience hooked on law enforcement documentaries that take the viewer behind the scenes. We are given the opportunity to take them further, to take them to countries where the ravages of this policy are creating havoc in society. From the Philippines to Colombia, from the Straits of Gibraltar to the killing streets of Guatemala, a series for Fusion and Discovery and a story that refuses to make any sense.
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Responsible for: Field Direction, Production & Photography
DRUG WARS SEASON 4
Artists are often the expression of the needs and desires of a society. But art requires an individual quality that is sometimes difficult to bring together. As part of Soy Capaz, the peace building campaign, we were able to bring over 60 of the most representative figures in Colombian pop, rock and traditional music to interpret a song created by Colombian mega star Carlos Vives, free of rights, appearance or performance fees. During three days stars ranging from Maluma, J. Balvin, Juanes, Fonseca, to Totó la Momposina, left their egos at the door as they came together to express a feeling of hope through their words, their talent and specially their ability to join hands in a unique effort.
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Responsible for: Executive Production, Photography & Editing
UN PASO HACIA LA PAZ
If the first casualty of war is the truth, then women are surely the second. Often forgotten, never in the headlines and usually those who carry the brunt of war are women.
This BBC series travels the world telling the stories of women at war, we tell the stories of the extraordinary women in Guatemala and the DRC who were victims of conflict and are now the protagonists of picking up the pieces.
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Responsible for: Direction, Production & Offline Editing (Guatemala); Photography (DRC)
WOMEN ON WAR
As part of a series of BBC World debates on economic issues in the developing world we film the videos that explore some of the measures being taken by governments to relieve poverty and encourage economic growth.
With Zeinab Badawi as moderator the debates help to highlight current proposals to overcome social inequality in Latin America, Asia and Africa with varying degrees of success.
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Responsible for: Content Direction, Production & Post Production
CASH IN HAND
A small music group with a huge talent wants to break out from its local niche, but it is its local niche that gives them their unique talent. Chocquibtown, a hip hop trio that hails from the Pacific Colombian coast breaks out with their single Somos Pacífico.
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We create their first main stream music video as a celebration of who they are and where they came from. With an ode to one of the poorest and most destitute places in the country, Chocquibtown has now become a Grammy award-winning act and one of the most successful exports of the Colombian music world.
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Responsible for: Direction, Production & Post-production
SOMOS PACIFICO
Colombia’s premium beer wanted to draw a parallel with Colombia’s lost pride, its artisans that reflect the country’s extraordinary human and environmental diversity.
Our knowledge and experience takes them to the deserts of the north and the deep jungles of the Pacific. To the hidden valleys of the Andes and the vast expanse of the Eastern Plains as we make a series that finds the hidden crafts that reflect the country’s history and toast their genius with the best beer brewed in the country.
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Responsible for: Field Direction
ORGULLO PERDIDO
The International Labor Organization is faced with the difficult task of encouraging governments to enforce laws that will protect the rights of workers and get workers to understand the rights that can secure them a dignified workplace. We help them design a set of communication tools to achieve this purpose.
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Responsible for: Concept, Direction, Production & Post-Production
ILO WEB SERIES
Can we tell the story of challenges we face in one square mile in any corner of the world? This is the premise of a BBC series that involved difficult filming conditions and developing intimate access in complex situations to reveal why our global challenges can always be traced to local problems and have often tragic costs that say more than just statistics. We film in the most violent neighborhoods in Guatemala City, the Amazonian tri-frontier between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, one of the youngest capital cities in the world in Timor L'Este, and in the meeting ground between East and West, Istanbul.
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Responsible for: Direction, Production and Off-line production (Peru, Turkey, East Timor, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Guatemala)
ONE SQUARE MILE
What is the value of the environmental services that humanity takes for granted? BBC World embarks on a long running series to explore this concept and we travel to several locations around the world to tell this story. From the extraordinary value provided by New York City’s watershed region to the carbon sequestration schemes being implemented with the forests of Guyana to the cost of losing bees in California and the effects of invasive species in southern Brazil to the benefits of potato production in China thanks to the extraordinary biodiversity of the crop. Should we consider the costs and benefits of nature in our market economy?
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Responsible for: Direction, Production & Offline Editing for 6 episodes
NATURE INC.
Art can be a healer and a way to bring people together. A project led by the Colombian Agency for Reintegration of illegal armed combatants tries to use theatre and music to achieve this purpose and we film the rehearsals, the tensions and the joy as former enemies come together to perform works of art in two different regions of Colombia.
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Responsible for: Direction, Production & Post-Production
EL FUTURO, NUESTRO ESCENARIO
The clash of two worlds, Cotto, the son of Puerto Rico goes up against Foreman, Israel's first WBA champion in a celebrated stage. Decades after Muhammad Ali fought in the ring of the first Yankee Staidum, New York City celebrates the return of boxing to the Bronx in the brand new Yankee Staidum.
A web series that follows Cotto during his months of training, that witnesses his struggle with the demons of his past and the final moments before the 12 rounds that will determine how he will be remembered. A series made for Heavy.com, a communications company breaking the mould of traditional television coverage creating a digital platform to give the audience what it wants.
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Responsible for: Direction, Production & Post-production
COTTO: ROAD TO THE BRONX
A BBC World series on the people behind some of the most innovative architectural projects in the world. We create some of the episodes in the series that highlight the humanity behind iconic structures like New York’s Highline and the wonders of Xi Chen in China, where a culture started around rice and ink paintings is now undergoing a modern rebirth.
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Responsible for: Direction, Production and Off-line Editing
HERITAGE HEROES
BBC World partners with Shell to provide awards and incentives to projects around the world that contribute to the well being of humanity and are based on the principles of sustainable development. From entrepreneurs selling mushroom gardens based on coffee waste to scientific projects promoting unknown varieties of potatoes in the high Andes and from micro hydroelectric damns bringing power to remote highland communities to the commercialization of indigenous aromatic teas in Paraguay, World Challenge went everywhere but winning relied on having your story well told. We filmed the story of two runners up and one of the winners as we spent three years filming the stories that could bring some hope to the world.
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Responsible for: Direction, Production and Off-line Editing
WORLD CHALLENGE
On their way to fame, Puerto Rican irreverent music group Calle 13 had some learning to do. Just as they were becoming superstars we embark on a journey through the heart of Latin America, from the shores of Lake Titicaca to the gold mines above 5,000 metres in Puno and from the lost tribes of the Orinoco to the sacred heights of Colombia's Sierra Nevada, Sin Mapa becomes the extraordinary documentary that provided a reality that the group would go on to interpret on their way to earning more than 20 Grammy Awards.
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Responsible for: Concept, Direction, Production and Post-Production