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Occupation
  
film director


Years active
  
1986–

Name
  
Carlos Zipagauta

Full Name
  
Carlos Rendon Zipagauta

Born
  
29 September 1955 (
1955-09-29
)
Cali, Colombia

Nationality
  
Colombian and Belgian

Biblioburro: The Donkey Library - Trailer


Carlos Rendón Zipagauta (Cali, 29 September 1955) is a Colombian-Belgian documentary filmmaker. Rendón Zipagauta studied film and screenwriting in Belgium, where he lived for 16 years. He began as assistant then co-director to Jean Christophe Lamy. He returned to Colombia to shoot documentaries. His 1993 film Nukak Makú, about the indigenous Nukak peoples, won festival prizes in France and Belgium enabling also EU grants to make further documentaries.

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Returning to Colombia Rendón Zipagauta has taught cinema at the University of Santa Magdalena since 2004, and teaches French at the Alliance Française of Santa Marta.

Filmography (Director)

Documentaries
  • 1991 : Salseros, on Cali's salsa music
  • 1992 : Tamalameque, on the town Tamalameque
  • 1993 : Nukak Makú, on the indigenous Nukak people of Colombia
  • 1997 : Ciénaga Grande on the grand swamps
  • 1998 : Charanguita
  • 2004 : Porteur d'eau produced by Scarfilm
  • 2007 : Biblioburro, on Biblioburro The Donkey Library
    • Screenwriter
  • 1988 : P.O.V., TV series

    • References

    Carlos Rendón Zipagauta Wikipedia
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