About us An international TV production company, founded in the UK, which specialises in frontline investigative documentaries and journalism.
Monica del Pilar Uribe Marín
Producer / Director / Writer
Monica is a Colombian journalist and editor, who specialised in human rights, politics and the environment. She works as a freelance journalist for various international newspapers and magazines. She founded and directed the magazine ‘Prisma’ and was nominated for the National Journalism Prize “Simon Bolivar” for the “Best Advancement in Colombian Journalism”. She has published several books such as: ‘Medicinal Plants’, ‘Spaces for Peaceful Coexistence’ and ‘U’wa: In Real Proximity’. Monica is also a lecturer on indigenous people, human rights and Colombia affairs, and has spoken on these subjects in India, Mexico and the UK. Claudia Piccioni
Producer / Assistant Director / Researcher / Translator
Masters in human rights, international politics and environment (specialisation gained from the Institute of Latin American Studies, London). She works for the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment. Author of research on the environmental and economic impact of drug production and eradication in Latin America, she speaks English, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese. She has also worked with War on Want, a non governmental organisation which fights poverty in developing countries.
Guy Fisher
Producer / Translator/ Narrator
Masters in indigenous rights, economics, and globalisation and development (specialisation gained from the Institute of Latin American Studies, London). His travels took him to Colombia where he wrote on indigenous territorial governance in the Colombian Amazon. He works for the Gaia Foundation, a UK based environmental non-governmental organisation which focuses on sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has experience working in journalism, film-production, research and publishing.
Colombia: Promises and Bullets
" Colombia is a country embroiled in a violent and bloody civil war, but what are the roots of this conflict and who should be held accountable? The media and the government state that guerrilla groups, particularly the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, are responsible for the violence and its social and economic costs. This is by no means the whole story.
' Colombia : Promises and Bullets' charts the history of Colombia 's war, from its humble origins to one of the most protracted and violent conflicts Latin America has ever seen. By exposing the role of the guerrilla, paramilitary groups, the army and the Colombian government, the film illustrates the full magnitude and complexity of Colombia 's war. The film gets a first hand account of the FARC's objectives, structure and ideology through exclusive interviews with its leaders who explain why the guerrilla refuses to give up its armed struggle.
The film also analyses the role of the Colombian government and questions its ability and readiness to broker a real and lasting peace and finally it offers a space for ordinary citizens to speak about the conflict and how it affects them."
Coproducer: MAT Media Associate producer: Yagé productions Music: Philip Guyler Trailer: Jothi Purushothaman Web Page:Jaco Otto
