Camilo Andres Bravo Molano

Address: Maacksgasse 2, bei Pineros

22303 Hamburg, Germany)
Mobile:(+49) 17655753869
E-mail: camilobravomolano@gmail.com
Birth date: 16-06-1989 - Bogotá, Colombia

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mar. 2018 – May. 2018

Center for African Studies (CEAF) –ISCSP- University of Lisbon.
Multimedia editor
May. 2017 – Nov. 2017
TAU Agency (Colombia)
Photographer and documentalist about Farmers in North of Paraguay
Oct. 2016 – Mar. 2017
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM - Germany)
Scolarship for documentary edition
Mar 2016 - Jul. 2016
Neurocom (Colombia)
Audiovisual development
Sept. 2015 – Dec. 2015
EMV Construction company (Colombia)
Photographer
Dec. 2014 – Jun. 2015
Planeta Editorial (Spain)
South American photographic material to Lonely Planet Spain
Dec. 2013 – Jan 2014
PNN Tayrona. National Natural Parks of Colombia.
Photographer and Documentalist

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 EDUCATION

Oct. 2018 - Currently

Hochschule für Bildende Kunste Hamburg (HFBK)
Master's in Film

Oct. 2017 – Currently

University of Lisbon - ISCSP
Master's in Anthropology

Aug. 2011 – May. 2017

National University of Colombia
Bachelor’s in Film and television

Oct. 2016 – Mar. 2017

Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM)
Exchange Study

Mar. –Jun. 2016

National University of Colombia
Course in Photography and digital image

Feb. – Nov 2014

University of Sao Paulo
Exchange Study in Journalism

Jun. 2013
National University of Colombia
Course The Meaning of Photography: ethics and aesthetics in
contemporary photographic thinking

LINGUISTIC PROFICIENCY
Spanish: Mother tongue
English: B2
Portuguese: C1
German: B2
French: A2

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PORTFOLIO
CAMILO BRAVO MOLANO
2020
I am Camilo Bravo Molano. I studied Film and Television in Bogotá at the Universidad Nacional de
Colombia. There I did writings and cinematographic projects with which I participated in several
national and foreign festivals, among them the Cartagena International Film Festival, The
International Light Festival in Bogotá, the BRIC art/project in Barcelona, and "Genres" seminar by
Robert Mckee's. Furthermore, aside from cinema I have dedicated myself to photography studies.

During 2013 and 2014, together with a team of friends we started the Transeúntes channel, a project to
explain and disseminate the latest photography works of contemporary artists in Bogotá. The project
subsequently continued in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In 2014 I did an exchange at the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Journalism to study journalistic
research methods, photojournalism and the Lusophone culture.

In 2015 in Brazil, I started the “Terra Firma” project, an essay documentary film about urban, rural
and natural landscapes in South America. With this project I was awarded a scholarship to do an
exchange semester at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne KHM in winter 2016.

In September 2017 I made a photoreportage about a peasant community affected by the armed conflict in
Northern Paraguay. The same year, I began a Master's in Anthropology at the Universidade de Lisboa
where I continued studying the context of Paraguay.

Currently, I am studying a Master's in Film focussed on Documentary at the University of Fine Arts of
Hamburg HFBK.
 ARROYITO
AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN PARAGUAY
Documentary Project:

The conflict is taking place in a region at the border with Brazil. In the last fifty years, this region
was colonized by homeless farmers coming from little villages, Mennonites communities, and
Brazilian workers of the agroindustrial sector aiming at expanding their soybean and cattle businesses.
As a result, Paraguay is currently the sixth global producer of soybean despite the little size of the
country. For this reason, the native peasants are losing their traditional crops, the economic
policies of the goverment disregard their social model, the banks are appropriating their lands
and homes, and the companies are contaminating grounds, rivers and air with agrotoxics to
improve industrial production.
The guerrilla emerged a decade ago, as a popular army advocating the rights of the poor
people and the nature. As a solution, the government created a special army (FTC) and
allocated a huge budget for the provision of weapons, training and military intelligence.
But the outcomes of this strategy have been negative, they could not capture members of the
guerrilla, but because of political pressure the army started to attack farmers and civil
population to showcase positive results in national medias.
Medias in the region present Arroyito and its communities of the conflicted area as data
rather than as people, thus dehumanizing these inhabitants and affecting the
perception around the country and the way in governmental institutions receive the
information and consequently formulate solutions as mathematical results, rather than as
human rights problems. This documentary is about the community, to show the human
life inside the conflict, to show the human faces behind the numbers.
 TERRA FIRMA
Year: 2017
Format: Digital HD
Documentary Essay 60 min.
Direction: Camilo Bravo Molano
Terra Firma is a documentary essay about South American landscapes. It is a journey in
search of the unknown borders through the territory of Terra Firma, an imaginary
continent that represents the historical development of cities and regions of South
America, whose capital city is built by the juxtaposition of images of Sao Paulo,
Buenos Aires , Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Bogotá and Santiago, the largest South American
cities.

The project began in 2014, the production was planned with an experimental model that
simultaneously allows researching, writing the script, and recording during the travel.
Thus, the routes were drawn: the first one traveled through Southern South America,
the second one through the Andean zone, and the last one through the Amazonian
rainforest. This research-creation was a rediscovery of South America, where
the landscapes contrasted with the ways of life of its inhabitants, as well as explore
the relationship between urbanizations -of colonial origin- and rural peripheral regions.
Project: TRANSEUNTES
Transeúntes channel, created in 2013, was developed as a web series that Year: 2013 - 2014
disseminated the photographic works present in Bogotá, analyzing the work with Format: HD Web serie
its author, for its aesthetic and conceptual construction, without giving relevance
to the history of the work, nor of the photographer. Similarly, through this 2-5 min, 11 Chapters
same channel the promotion of photographic events that took place in the city Direction: Camilo Bravo
was spread. Subsequently, in 2014, the project was also developed in the city Molano
of Sao Paulo.
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/canaltranseuntes
Synopsis: DEATH
Death is the disappearance of the past and the nostalgia of a non-future - Year: 2013
the frustration at the end of a phase. They are songs of calm before the Format: Digital HD
desperation of memories, of what was and never will Documentary - 26 min
be again. This documentary was a personal project inspired by the death of Direction: Camilo Bravo
my grandmother, which reflects the emotionality and impotence produced Molano
by death, whether physical or symbolic. Through this exploration, I found
different people with a vocation to accompany in death, discovering that
songs and music are the means to understand and express this phase.
Photography Proposal:
GAMMA
The image is placed in a post-nuclear context, taking as reference the Chernobyl
Year:2012
explosion. It recreates an apocalyptic time, where civilization has declined, its
Format:16mm
technology has stagnated, and its architecture has deteriorated. Old
Short fiction-15min
cement predominates in the landscape, television control towers, cables and
Cinematography:
antennas protrude into the sky. This is why asphalt, moisture, corrosion, and
Camilo Bravo Molano
oxidation are the texture, and their "rough shapes" are the preponderant figures
in the picture. A cold colour temperature is chosen, so when shifting to black
and white greater contrast is generated.
Synopsis: Void and Nothingness
Soledad is a rural woman, fearful of people, lonely and introverted, who begins to Year: 2012
be attracted to Gabriel, a farmer from whom she gets pregnant. Void and Format: Digital HD
Nothingness is an exploration of the human psyche based on a biblical Short Fiction 6 min
account. The photography work produces a mood of isolation. The sound Direction: Camilo Bravo
design evokes the nocturnal nature as a representation of the instinct and Molano
subconscious of the human personality.
 PORTFOLIO
CAMILO BRAVO MOLANO

2020