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Ciro Guerra

シーロ・ゲーラ　/　しーろ・げーら

Film director from Colombia

February 6, 1981 (age 45)　・　Río de Oro, Cesar Department, Colombia

Cesar Department
film director
screenwriter

My Take

Ciro Guerra is exactly the sort of filmmaker I find myself rooting for. Born in a small town in Colombia's Cesar Department and trained at the National University of Colombia, he turned a regional, indigenous-rooted vision into work that reached the Academy Awards, with Embrace of the Serpent earning a Best Foreign Language Film nomination. What interests me is his refusal to flatten his stories into a Hollywood template; he films memory, landscape and identity through a distinctly Colombian gaze. Directors like Guerra remind me that the most arresting cinema often comes from the periphery, not the centre.

Overview

Ciro Guerra (born 6 February 1981) is a Colombian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, and for The Wind Journeys, selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Ciro Guerra
Name (Japanese): シーロ・ゲーラ
Reading: しーろ・げーら
Born: February 6, 1981 (age 45)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Rooster
Origin: Río de Oro, Cesar Department, Colombia
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / screenwriter

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: National University of Colombia

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9

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