Director, Producer
José Andrés Nieto Galvis
José Andrés Nieto Galvis is an Audiovisual Producer and Director, with training in film and cinematographic photography (CUN- UNITEC- EICTV San Antonio de los Baños), with two decades of experience in national and international productions as producer, director, director of photography, cameraman and editor. In 2018 he was elected as a representative of the Producers to the District Council of Audiovisual Arts of Bogotá from where he provides his service for the strengthening of the film sector of the city. He is also a member of DASC, of the La Rebeca Artistic and Cultural Collective and Founder of Cine Mimo Audiovisual.
After years of experience in television with the national channels Caracol, RCN, City TV, Channel 13 and Signal Colombia and having an important career with the LAP Production Company, the Audiovisual Production Center, Centauro Comunicaciones and national entities such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the Government of Cundinamarca, the National Army of Colombia, the National Television Commission and the Ministry of Culture, in 2009 he launched his first short film ¡Padre, Pare !, a plot that he wrote and directed in 2011.
To date he has made 24 documentaries , of which 19 have been screened in cinemas nationwide, international festivals and film forums in Manchester UK, the Javeriana, Pedagógica, Magdalena, Caldas universities, the Virgilio Barco Library, the Medellín Cinematheque and in cultural spaces independent of several cities of the national territory. In a complementary way, Cultural Management and Citizen Participation has been studied with EAN, IDPAC, UPN and has been part of community processes such as "Identidad Paz" and "Arteusaquillo" in which cinema has been used as an important tool for citizen dialogue and social transformation.