Andrés Pereáñez
CCO | Creative Director | Postproduction Manager
Co-Founder
Colombian, with audiovisual training from different academic backgrounds, this diversity of languages and visual discourses has allowed him to develop a personal style, a hallmark of his work, participating in important projects, Documentary Feature Films, Reality Show, Fiction and Documentary Series for the main channels. and national and international production companies and channels.
He studied Film and TV Direction and Production at the Lumiere Foundation, 2003. He participated in the Seminar Workshop on Audiovisuals at Universidad del Valle, 2001 and the Script workshop “DE CAFÉ Y AMORES”, with Guillermo Arriaga (AMORES PERROS) and Fernando Gaitán (CAFE CON AROMA DE MUJER), 2001.
In 2003 he begins his journey as an editor for television where he participates in national and international projects. In 2009 he edited his first documentary feature film “PIZARRO, A PEACE WARRIOR”, “AMOR AZUL” by John Fernando Velásquez, winner project of DOCTV 2010 and in 2011 the documentary “FRONTERA” by Rayanier Buitrago. He has participated in different documentaries for film and television such as “BAJO FUEGO” (Color) by Sjoerd van Grootheest and Irene Vélez 2020; A SELFIE WITH TIMOCHENKO (Color and Online) by Álvaro Perea 2018; CLAMOROSO SILENCIO and SHOOTING (Color and Online) by John Fernando Velásquez 2018; VICHADA, TO THE CUSTODY OF LIFE (Montage and Color) by Clare Weiskopf 2017; CIRO & YO (Color and Online) by Miguel Salazar 2016; TO END A WAR (Postproduction Manager for Colombia) by Marc Silver 2016; MADRE LAURA (Color and Online) by Luis Felipe Delgado 2015, among others.
In 2010 he wrote and directed his first short documentary HERENCIA PACÍFICA, in which he began the exploration and search for the relationship between music and society, an investigation that led him to direct two more short films, TAMBORES DE SILOÉ and HEREDEROS, 24 minutes long. 2014 and 2016.
He has participated in film festivals as a jury, workshop facilitator and sponsor such as the Film Production and Projects Hall, SAPCINE - FICCALI; Villa de Leyva Film Festival, and PANALANDIA, Panama Film Festival. He participated in DOCTV Latin America V Edition 2015, as Advisor for Design of Workflows for Postproduction, Havana, Cuba, Ministry of Culture and the Foundation of the New Latin American Cinema.
He is currently co-founder of ELEVADOR FILMS, a post-production studio created in 2017, and co-leads ELEVADOR FILMS LAB, an audiovisual content laboratory, where he has been developing different projects for film and television, such as the documentary series "HYBRID SOUNDS", a project selected at BAM ( BOGOTÁ AUDIOVISUAL MARKET), FAM DE TODOS (MERCOSUR) from Brazil and CONECTADOS from Chile and from which the documentary feature film of the same name is derived, winner of 7 awards at the SAPCINE Film Producers and Projects Hall of the International Festival of Cinema of Cali, FICCALI.
