José Varón(I)

Director, photographer, and musician born in Cali. He has worked as a director for production companies such as Antorcha Films, Contravía Films, Direktor Films, Laberinto Cine y TV, Phenomena, RTVC, among others. He specializes in the documentary genre, primarily focusing on themes of memory, identity, and cultural expressions. In 2013, he founded the production company Phenomena. In 2016, he filmed "Voces de resistencia," a medium-length documentary about the singers of Bojayá. In 2019, he worked on "El sendero de la anaconda," a feature-length documentary for theaters and Netflix, produced by Caracol Televisión and Laberinto Cine y TV, where he participated as the director of the second unit and editor. In 2020, he made "Acervoz Latinoamérica," a 13-episode documentary series for Telepacífico, and in 2021, for the same channel, the second season of the seven-episode series "Escénica," in which he worked as director. His feature-length documentary "Nocaut" (2022) was a beneficiary of the Film Development Fund - FDC in the Production category and was awarded by the Ministry of Culture's Creation Scholarships program.