
Directing
Luis Fernando Bottia
Born
1954-01-01 (72)
Place of birth
Barranquilla, Colombia
Known for
Directing
Credits
6 titles
Luis Fernando Bottía (1954-) was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. He graduated in Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes (Andes University) of Bogota. He was film reviewer at the Diario del Caribe Newspaper and professor of the Universidad Autónoma del Caribe y del Norte (Autonomous University of The Caribbean and the North) in Barranquilla. His work in the cinema as filmmaker and screenwriter began in the 1980s decade. In 1981, he received a mention in the Cocultura Film festival, Colombia for Carnaval en blanco y negro (screenwriter and director). He won the First Prize at the Bogota Film Festival (1983) and the same year the special mention in Huelva Latin Film Festival (Spai…
Known for
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El Faro
2014
5.3Adel is a singer from the Caribbean coast who wanders through the villages playing his accordion and falling in love with girls. He meets Blanca who gives him her love, he agrees to marry her and go to live with her in Barranquilla. Despite the promise, and the pressure of Blanca's family, it will be very difficult for Adel to fulfill his commitment: the same night of the wedding day he will be seduced and will be obsessed by La Mohana, goddess of the waters, about whose legend the old people tell more than one story.
The Accordionist's Wedding
1986
A magician announces in a show that in Ciénaga, a small town on the Colombian Atlantic Coast, there's a little girl whose hair is made of real gold: Juana. The Deacon, the Mayor, and the greedy population of this town find in this unusual gift the solution of their financial difficulties. But sooner or later, Juana's gift will become in a curse she'll try to fight.
Juana Had Hair of Gold
2006
NRDocumentary that tells the most human side of Gabriel García Márquez through the testimonies of family members, fellow journalists and writers. 'Buscando a Gabo' pursues the human Gabo, the one that can be revealed by the friends who were with him throughout his life, the one that has been lost in the biographical data.
Buscando a Gabo
2007
Behind the camera
9.0No synopsis available yet.
El Faro
2014
5.3Adel is a singer from the Caribbean coast who wanders through the villages playing his accordion and falling in love with girls. He meets Blanca who gives him her love, he agrees to marry her and go to live with her in Barranquilla. Despite the promise, and the pressure of Blanca's family, it will be very difficult for Adel to fulfill his commitment: the same night of the wedding day he will be seduced and will be obsessed by La Mohana, goddess of the waters, about whose legend the old people tell more than one story.
The Accordionist's Wedding
1986
5.3Adel is a singer from the Caribbean coast who wanders through the villages playing his accordion and falling in love with girls. He meets Blanca who gives him her love, he agrees to marry her and go to live with her in Barranquilla. Despite the promise, and the pressure of Blanca's family, it will be very difficult for Adel to fulfill his commitment: the same night of the wedding day he will be seduced and will be obsessed by La Mohana, goddess of the waters, about whose legend the old people tell more than one story.
The Accordionist's Wedding
1986
A magician announces in a show that in Ciénaga, a small town on the Colombian Atlantic Coast, there's a little girl whose hair is made of real gold: Juana. The Deacon, the Mayor, and the greedy population of this town find in this unusual gift the solution of their financial difficulties. But sooner or later, Juana's gift will become in a curse she'll try to fight.
Juana Had Hair of Gold
2006
A magician announces in a show that in Ciénaga, a small town on the Colombian Atlantic Coast, there's a little girl whose hair is made of real gold: Juana. The Deacon, the Mayor, and the greedy population of this town find in this unusual gift the solution of their financial difficulties. But sooner or later, Juana's gift will become in a curse she'll try to fight.
Juana Had Hair of Gold
2006
NRDocumentary that tells the most human side of Gabriel García Márquez through the testimonies of family members, fellow journalists and writers. 'Buscando a Gabo' pursues the human Gabo, the one that can be revealed by the friends who were with him throughout his life, the one that has been lost in the biographical data.
Buscando a Gabo
2007
