Silent Witnesses

Jerónimo Atehortúa is a film director and producer born in Medellín, Colombia. He graduated from the Universidad del Cine, Argentina, and holds an MFA from the Film Factory at the Sarajevo Film Academy, a program directed by the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Atehortúa also holds a law degree from the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

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For several years, he worked as a film critic for various specialized media outlets. In 2009, his book Aproximación a los estudios de cine y derecho (An Approach to Film and Law Studies) was published by Universidad Externado. In 2020, he published his book Los cines por venir (The Cinemas to Come), which was edited in Colombia, Spain, and Argentina. He has also worked as a teacher in educational institutions in Colombia, Argentina, and Cuba.

Atehortúa has directed several short films, including Deán Funes 841, Becerra, La emboscadura, Rekonstrukcija, and Las ruinas. His debut feature film, Silent Witnesses (Mudos testigos, 2023), was co-directed with Luis Ospina and premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2023. It was also the opening film at FICValdivia 2023.

He has produced films such as Federico Atehortúa’s Mute Fire (Pirotecnia, 2020), on which he was also co-screenwriter, and Mercedes Gaviria’s The Calm After the Storm (Como el cielo después de llover, 2020)

Atehortúa is a founding partner of Invasión Cine, a Colombian independent film collective/production company whose works focus on the tradition of Colombian cinema. His films are produced with an alternative system, focusing on the crossroads of archive and fiction.