PROFILE

Luis Otero is a cinematographer known for projects such as Primate, Malayerba, We Are the Heat, El Piedra, The Zero Hour, Greetings to the Devil, and At the End of the Spectra. As well as music videos and advertising with the top production companies.



FILMOGRAPHY.

MEMORIAS DE UN SEDUCTOR Season 1 VIX / 11:11 films

June 2024 - November 2024

MEDUSA season 1 Netflix / Tis

November 2023 - April 2024

PRIMATE season 2 at The Media Pro / Amazon Prime Video, Bogotá

October 2022 - February 2023

PRIMATE season 1 at The Media Pro / Amazon Prime Video, Bogotá

May 2021 - August 2021

MALAYERBA at Dynamo, Bogotá

October 2020 - January 2021

98 SEGUNDOS SIN SOMBRA at Puraca Films, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. EL PIEDRA at Miramar, Cartagena

  • Official selection of the 35th Chicago Latino Film Festival, USA. 2019.

  • Official selection Colombian Film Festival, New York, 2019.

  • Official selection FICBAQ, Colombia, 2019.

  • 59 Cartagena International Film Festival, 2019.

  • Official selection 12 Dominican Global Film Festival, Dominican Republic, 2019.

  • HBO USA Premiere. 2019.

  • Warsaw Film Festival. 2018

  • Habana Internacional Film Festival. 2018.

  • PALM SPRINGS International film festival. 2018.

  • Toronto Black Film Festival. 2019.

  • San Diego Latino Film festival. 2019.

  • Wasser Music Berlin. 2019.

  • Latino and Iberian Film Festival, Yale University. 2019.

  • Panorama Colombia Berlin. 2019.

  • Colombian International Film Festival, New York. 2019.


SALUDA AL DIABLO DE MI PARTE at XYZ, Bogotá


LA HORA CERO at Factor RH, Caracas

  • Won at the Providence Latin American Film Festival in Los Angeles for best photography.

  • In 2011 it was nominated at the Ariel Awards in the category of Best Ibero-American Film.

    SIN RETORNO at FOX STUDIOS Bogotá

    TIEMPO FINAL at FOX STUDIOS, Bogotá

• Fox's first blockbuster for Latin America, and the first to be filmed in high definition; production that won the “India Catalina” award for best TV series in Colombia.



AL FINAL DEL ESPECTRO at Palo Alto Films., Bogotá

July 2006

• Film that won the FDC Feature Film Production Award in 2005 and was released in theaters in 2006. AT THE END OF THE SPECTRUM drew the attention of Variety magazine, which gave very good reviews of its cinematography, positioning it at that time as one of the young promises of national cinema.

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EDUCATION

Cinematography Direction Workshop with Guillermo Navarro (ASC) Winner of the Oscar for best photography for Pan's Labyrinth. 2019.

Cinematography, Universidad Manuela Beltrán. 2002.

Film Studies, Universidad Manuela Beltrán, Bogotá. 2002/2004

Film Interpretation Seminar, MOMA, Bogotá. 2000.

Investigative Journalism, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá. 2000.