Júlio Contreras

JAMAAL depicts a day in the life of a Black man, with no additional trauma. Cuz let’s keep it 💯, life has enough challenges--we don’t need no help making it harder.

When Georgina dies, her husband Alcides tries to give her a dignified funeral, which is quite difficult, because they have no money and are living in the poorest district of Bogotá.

A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993.

In March 2003, five mountain-climbers go to Tierra del Fuego, in the extreme South of South America, to climb Mount Sarmiento. Unexpected events abort the mission, turning a documentary about achievement into a portrait of failure and frustration.