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Mauricio Maldonado

Mauricio Maldonado

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Biography

Mauricio Maldonado is a Colombian filmmaker born Medellín, Colombia. He is the co-founder of the Cosmódromo Cine collective. His graduation short film EN BUSCA DE AIRE (2015) won the India Catalina award for best short film in the New Creators category at the FICCI 55th. His short film THE NIGHT SHINES (2018) was a beneficiary of the Fund for Film Development in Colombia in 2016 and was selected at Fribourg IFF 2020. He is currently working on the development of his first feature film LOS DILUVIOS, a winning project of the FDC fund award for scriptwriting in 2019.

Known For

We Deserve an Empire
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A group of teenagers dig gold remains inside a newly abandoned mine.

We Deserve an Empire

2024
The Void of Maws
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On the foggy slopes of mysteriously deserted roads, Deivis, an isolated teenager finds an injured body. A young man that belongs to the world of the dead, will be the only bridge to find a group of people that will put an end to his loneliness. The longing for a new family as a dream of times gone by.

The Void of Maws

2020
The Night Shines
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It is the final night for a 15-year-old girl before leaving the neighborhood where she grew up in a hilly suburb of Medellin. At midnight, she looks for the opportunity to meet again in secret with her 18-year-old boyfriend, Damián. He has just been transferred from prison to an undisclosed location to serve house arrest. A violent score-settling abruptly ends the clandestine meeting of these two impossible lovers.

The Night Shines

2018
En busca de aire
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In a near future where freedom has been outlawed in the city's outskirts, a tormented teenager, about to be forcibly conscripted, is pressured to leave behind everything he loves, facing his fears and the lurking violence as his only hope of escaping the war. The city's periphery has been besieged and controlled, serving as a concentration camp where young people, separated from their families, are raised to serve a strict military regime that governs the area.

En busca de aire

2015
Dreaming a Serpent
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A taxidermist finds a strange old photograph of her mother with a serpent that will alter her instincts and sensibilities in unpredictable ways.

Dreaming a Serpent

2025
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A casting director reunites with a young non-professional actor with the mission of re-recording some dialogues to complete the post-production of a film. Surrounded by a forest, in the sway of flickering lights, fantasy, imagination, and play collide in an exercise of repetition and hypnosis, where ghosts wander, complicit in the fiction.

A Ghost-Detecting Device

2025