Felipe Holguín Caro

Biography

Felipe H. Caro is a Colombian writer / director, who has lived in Bogotá, New York, Sao Paulo, Los Angeles and is currently established in Cartagena de Indias. He co-founded the production company Cumbia Films in 2009. In 2010 he received 2 Honorable Mentions (BOGOCINE, KOLIBRI) for his fiction short film TOMORROW, which premiered at FICCI 2010 and participated in more than 30 international film festivals. In 2012, he was selected to participate in the Film Independent Directing Project Involve Fellowship Program in Los Angeles, California, where he wrote, produced and directed several short films. In 2014 / 2015 he directed two feature documentaries funded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture. His most recent short films were funded by the Colombian Film Fund (FDC-Proimagenes). UNLUCKY’S LUCK, funded and shot in 2017, won 2 Best Fiction Short Film awards in 2018 (SAFILM, FICGIBARA), and most recently the short documentary LA CACHERA, funded and shot in 2019, was selected to be world premiere at FICCI 2020, but got cancelled due to COVID-19. Felipe was Casting Director for the feature film EL PIEDRA in 2017, pre-selected to represent Colombia in the Oscars and Goya awards. He is currently in development of his first fiction feature film THE SHADOW OF THE BEAST, planning to go into production in 2021.