Enrique Pedráza Botero
Directing
Biography
Enrique is a visual artist from Bogotá, Colombia. He was recently appointed to co-lead the Documentary Film Initiative at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School, working to support new research, analysis, innovation and provocation around core issues facing the documentary field. His latest film, Alpha Kings, premiered at IFFR in 2023, and was acquired for distribution by The New Yorker. It was recently selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. His work has screened at True/False Film Fest, AFI Fest, Camden International Film Festival, Festival de Nouveau Cinema, Museum of Moving Image and Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Enrique is currently releasing a new short film, No se ve desde acá, which premiered at ZINEBI and won the Santa Lucia award for Best Editing at Bogoshorts in 2024. He is developing his first feature film with A24.
Known For
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.
Unrest
In a letter to an artist lost to suicide at age twenty-eight, a filmmaker revisits his own battle with a rare anxiety disorder, forging an intimate relationship with his mother.
Esto, que llevo dentro
From a rented mansion in suburban Texas, a group of young men sell a hyperbolic, alpha-male version of themselves on the internet.
Alpha Kings
"Christmas, Every Day" gives a slice-of-life glimpse of preteen influencers Peyton and Lyla Wesson, ages 11 and 12, as they perform for their online fans under their mother’s watchful guidance. Shot in a series of highly composed, locked-off takes, the film examines everyday cultural practice under late stage capitalism, juxtaposing rural life with the patina of the virtual world. As Peyton and Lyla shift between performance and reality, ideas of self-presentation as empowerment, female confidence, and self-branding come to the fore.
Christmas, Every Day
A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy.