Profiles: Alessandro Angulo | Proimágenes Colombia

Alessandro Angulo is a renowned Colombian film director and producer who studied film and video at the School of Visual Arts in New York and New York University, in addition to completing his training in directing with Judith Weston and taking part in cinematography seminars with Néstor Almendros.

Between 1984 and 1988, while based in New York, Angulo was the director and cinematographer of the short films On the Other Side of Club Med and The Game. He also worked as a short film producer at the Out of Frame Films studio and as assistant director of commercials for the Grey Advertising group.

In 1987 he co-wrote the script for the feature film Todo el Amor del Mundo in Cuba, after attending the seminar by Gabriel García Márquez at the San Antonio de los Baños film school. He subsequently relocated to Milan, Italy, where he worked as a freelance director of commercials and music videos for the Larione 10, Photo Video, Film Master, Film GO and Diafragma production houses, as well as acting as a creative for the Fine Concept agency.

Following his international tour, Angulo set up Alessandro Angulo Productions in 1991, which would later become Laberinto Productions and is now known as Laberinto Cine y Televisión. This acclaimed production company is dedicated to the production of films, television content and commercials and has amassed a reel of over 1,500 pieces, including commercials, teasers, music videos for Colombian and international artists, TV series and films. He has also received awards and mentions at festivals such as Cannes, Cartagena, New York, Fiap, Promax and Inti, and was awarded the Ojo de Iberoamérica (Eye of Ibero-America) prize for best Colombian producer.

At Laberinto, Angulo works as a director, and some of his career highlights include the cinematography of Dago García’s feature film The Corner (2004), in addition to acting as director and cinematographer on countless TV commercials.

Their curiosity for creating own content and developing film projects led Laberinto Productions to help to turn the ideas of screenwriters and directors into documentaries, feature films and storyline short films through their film and TV division. Laberinto’s debut feature, Bluff (2007), emerged from this process, with Angulo acting as producer and director of photography. He has also directed the documentary on José Celestino Mutis as part of the series El Pensamiento que Heredamos (2010) and was the executive producer of The Traffic Light Society (2010).

Angulo was also the general producer and director of several episodes of the Sony Pictures Television series Gentlemen Prefer Them Dumb (2010 and 2011). In 2012 he premiered Ilegal.co, a documentary on the war on drugs and prohibition that featured at the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI). In addition, he directed the fiction feature film Sanandresito in 2012 and worked as director and director of photography on the television documentary The Times of Pablo Escobar in the same year.

Angulo has also been part of productions such as the feature films The Potato Cartel (2015) by Jaime Escallón and Before the Fire (2015) by Laura Mora Ortega, working as director of photography on the latter. Men Cry Too (2015), the TV series for Sony Entertainment Latin America on which he was director and producer, also premiered in the same year.

In recent years he has produced over 10 documentaries for Caracol Television, Colombia’s largest television broadcaster, including Buenaventura, no me dejes más (2014), Colombia: 60 años de televisión en Colombia (2014), Caminos de guerra y paz (2017) and La Voz de Todos: Historia de la Radio en Colombia (2017).

The most recent productions that Angulo has directed include the RTVC Play series La de Troya (2019) and the documentary The Path of the Anaconda (2019).

Last updated: June 2019