Antonio Dorado graduated in journalism and literature, and he is a specialist in the area of audiovisual methods. Since 1990 he has been a professor of film and video arts at the Universidad del Valle. He has directed 28 documentaries, awarded, for example, at the IFF in Bogota and Cartagena. His documentary portrait Estanislao Zuleta, Biography of a Thinker (Estanislao Zuleta, Biografía de un pensador, 2000) was lauded as one of the 15 best Latin American audiovisual productions at the 2nd Encuentro Latinoamericano; in 2002 the same film won Best Documentary at the 20th Festival of Film and Video in Santa Fe, Argentina. His video Murmullos de agua took Best Documentary at the 2000 Encuentro Hispanoamericano del Milenio de Video Documental Independiente in San Jose, Costa Rica. El Rey (2004) is his feature film debut.
MFF Karlovy Vary
