Andres Roa
Directing
Biography
With more than 14 years of experience in the advertising and audiovisual Colombian industry, Roa has become one of the most outstanding filmmakers from the Andean Region of the country, working for different colombian advertising agencies such as SANCHO BBDO, LEO BURNETT, HAVAS MEDIA, FANTASTICA, and JUNE&JULY, and exporting his work to other companies in Mexico, Italy and USA like 76WORDS from Washington DC. Creator of the "ASUSTO COLOMBIANO" Sub-genre and founder of ROA&FILMMAKERS CREW, producer company that has become in a big showcase for the local cinema in several festivals and international spaces. Winner of almost a hundred awards in advertising and films around the world. Colaborator of different projects of outstanding brands and characters like Edson Velandia, Rap Bang Club, Common (Chicago Mayor Endorsement, USA), Joe Biden (USA Presidencial Campaign). Producer associated with CARACOL CINE and DAGO GARCÍA PRODUCCIONES for his most recent production: RAPUNZEL, EL PERRO Y EL BRUJO.
Known For
El Perro, a kidnapped soldier, takes advantage of a confrontation between his captors and the paramilitaries to escape. In his escape, he takes refuge in the house of a peasant family that keeps a dark secret that he must solve to be free.
Rapunzel, The Dog and The Warlock
A farm divided into two parts unleashes a fight to the death between Carlos and Humberto, two peasant brothers who dispute to have the greatest amount of land in the inheritance that their father left them. This dispute leads the two families to break off relations, although Luis Carlos and Beto, cousins, children of Carlos and Humberto continue to meet secretly, thus devising a way to save their relationship and, incidentally, the lives of their parents.
El arrimo
This is the story of a family that represents the collective memory of Colombia that has lived at war for more than seventy years, a journey through a country submerged in corruption, poor health coverage, and abuse by the military.
Desolvido
Ciro is a quiet and respectful young guaquero that despite his young age and his little experience becomes one of the best and most outstanding of the coffee region in Colombia. Ciro is hired by Oliver, an English adventurer man, ambitious and who goes by the world looking for luck and trying to hunt fortunes. Obsessed with a large guaca to keep filling his pockets, he plunges into the jungle of Quindío with Ciro. What they don't know or can come to what can be found in their path, through a journey in which the jungle, mysticism, tradition and ambition overflowed playing an unexpected trick.