About – Películas Big Sur

Joan Gómez Endara

Direction - Production

Colombian director and producer, founding partner of Big–Sur Películas, he has directed and co-written the short films “BLOOD FIGHTERS” (Idartes Award for Short Film 2008, Official Selection of the International Festival Clermont–Ferrand 2012), and “THE WALLET”, shot in Barcelona in 2013.

He has also worked as a second unit director in a TV series for the Colombian Caracol Channel, and previously as assistant director for renowned Colombian films and film production companies. He holds a Master’s Degree in Film Direction from the Superior School of Cinema and Audiovisual of Catalonia (ESCAC) in Barcelona.

With his feature film “THE RED TREE” he has received numerous accolades during its development stage, including the Ibermedia Fund Co-Production support, and in post-production stage the selection at the “Film in Progress” of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, as well as the award for “Work in Progress ”of the Mercosur Festival of Florianópolis (Brazil), and the post-production support of the Colombian Film Development Fund (FDC). In the same way, he is working on the development of a couple more projects, and recently he had the world premiere of his feature film “THE RED TREE”, which took place at “Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival” 2021, in Estonia, starting in this way its distribution and exhibition stage.

Ivan Sierra Sanjurjo

Production - Direction

Producer, director, and associate scriptwriter, he co-wrote the short film “BLOOD FIGHTERS” and the feature film “THE RED TREE” of which he is also a producer during the development stage, both projects directed by Joan Gómez. Since 2000 he has produced and directed fiction and documentary short and feature films, among which are “DREAMS AND SILENCE” (Official Selection International Documentary Exhibition of Bogotá – MIDBO 2000), “WET CIGARRETTES” (Stimulus of the Colombian Film Development Fund – FDC 2008), “THE SIBERIA” (Official Selection of the International Documentary Exhibition of Bogotá – MIDBO 2015), “THE LAST CRAFTSMEN OF LIGHT” (Stimulus of the Colombian Film Development Fund – FDC 2011), “RASTROS DE ANIMAL ESQUIVO” (Idartes Prize 2021, and Stimulus of the Colombian Film Development Fund – FDC 2021), the latter a documentary feature film in which he is currently working in its post-production stage.

Graduated in Film and Television Production from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with a Master’s degree in Teaching from the Universidad de la Salle, he also works as a teacher in the Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication program at the Universidad de la Sabana, and is in parallel working in the development stage of the fiction feature film “Granuja de Barrio”, an in-house project of Big Sur Films.

Sonia Barrera Gutiérrez

Production

Colombian film and television producer, she is co-founder of the production company “Viso Producciones”, created with the director Viviana Gómez in 2016. She studied Film, Photography and Social Communication, and has been a producer of feature films “BETWEEN FIRE AND WATER” (Documentary / World Premiere IDFA 2020) by Viviana Gómez, co-directed by Anton Wenzel, “THROUGH THE SCREEN” by Juan Camilo Ramírez, a tribute film to the 100 years of Colombian Cinema, “LIKE LOVING CATS” (Documentary / In development), and “THE RED TREE” by Joan Gómez (Fiction/World premiere “Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival”, Estonia 2021); Winner film from the Colombian Film Fund, selected at the “Films in Progress” at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and WIP selection at the Ventana Sur market (Buenos Aires / Argentina) 2019.

As a field producer, work on the feature films “THE WIND JOURNEYS” by Ciro Guerra (A certain Regard- Cannes Film Festival 2009), “KEYLA” by Viviana Gómez (Official Selection at Warsaw Film Festival 2017), and “KAIRÓS” by Nicolás Buenaventura (2021). She was the executive producer at “Señal Colombia” public television channel between 2016 and 2018, where she received the India Catalina Award for the best children’s series for “ASÍ SOMOS”. She was the director of the documentary series “GIRÓSCOPIO” (Unimedios-Prize of the Bogotá Journalism Circle). and worked in the series “TE RECREO” (Capital Channel-Prix Jeunnese International 2014).