Thanks to: Jineth Bedoya, Fidel Cano, Jonathan Bock, and Héctor Abad Faciolince provided us with their testimonies.
Produced by: Marta Milena Barrios and Oscar Arias-Diaz. Marta Milena Barrios is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Journalism at Universidad del Norte, in Barranquilla, Colombia. Before joining academia, she was a radio and television reporter. Her academic interests include the study of the relation between Colombian society and informative media. She teaches and researches journalism, political conflict coverage, gender stereotypes, and disaster risk management. Her articles have been published in journals as Feminist Media Studies, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, and Revista Española de Comunicación en Salud.
In Barranquilla Colombia, Oscar Arias-Diaz is a doctoral student in Communications and an adjunct lecturer on screenwriting and film production at the School of Communication and Journalism at Universidad del Norte. He has a Masters degree in Film Directing from the University of Barcelona. His research interest includes the Latino filmmakers in the industry and Colombia´s national film industry and social networks.