Camilo Coba

Infobox Actor
name = Camilo Coba

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birthdate = birth date and age|1986|9|7
location = Quito, Ecuador

Camilo Coba is an young Filmaker and photographer from Ecuador who received many film awards at a young age.

Biography

Camilo Coba was born in Quito, Ecuador on 7 September 1986. He partially studied film direction in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the university of the 60's Argentine director Manuel Antin where he had several awards in his particular and group practical works. At the moment he is attending the Movie and Video Race in the The San Francisco University in Quito. In the life practices he is outstanding at making his first film opera 'El Silencio No Existe' (The Silence Does Not Exist), rolling from the age of 19 years and concluding at the moment to his 21 years of age. The film received recognition of the Washington DC International Film Festival, catalogued in the American Press as "the Sundance of the East Coast".

He has also participated in numerous time in short film projects as much in Argentina as in Ecuador, in the has mainly worked as Director of Photography and Cinematography. From when he found the Intisana School, he resprented Ecuador in international contests like The Dwight School I.B. Film Festival, he participated in this at the age of 17 years y obtained the Special Jury Prize the same that he received the ambassador of Ecuador for the United Nations in the name of the young director that he didn't represent his country alone, but all of Latin America being the only short film selected from the region. The same history repeated itself four years later in the Washington DC International Film Festival, in that he represented Ecuador and Latin America together with the Cuban Director Humberto Solas and his film 'Barrio Cuba' (Cuban District).

Filmography:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IN8NBKAugA Youtube Video]

horts

- El Chirisiqui (2 min.) 2004 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KArM6iFp4w Watch]
- Popular Quitumbe (5 min.) 2004
- Zapatos Rotos (12 min.) 2004
- El Chiriyacu (20 min.) 2005
- Autoretrato (buenos aires) (1 min.) 2005
- Obsesión (buenos aires) (5 min.) 2005
- Ni Tu ni Nadie videoclip (buenos aires)(5 min.)2005 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSGw4vLV59Y Watch]
- Corre Wong, Corre (buenos aires) (4 min.) 2006
- Videopoesia urbana (5 min.) 2006 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAr0-5NIHJ4 Watch]
- Espasmo Canulaser (experimental) (5 min.) 2007
- Klei2copio (experimental) (4 min.) 2007
- Autorretrato: Segundo Round (1 min.) 2007 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbSkAXstj0E Watch]
- Tonos y colores (experimental) (4 min.) 2007

Instructional Videos

-Mi primer dia de clase (colegio Intisana) (30 min.) 2003 - 2004
-Avesca (5 min.) 2005
-Guarderia El Pinar (5 min.) 2007
-Open House: Guarderia El pinar (30 min.) 2007

Documentaries

-Ayudemos en esta Navidad promocional (5 min.) 2005 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqGtfx4DAj8 Watch]
-Ayudemos en esta Navidad documental (20 min.) 2005
-Estacion 125 promocional (20 min.) 2007
-Estacion 125 documental (80 min.) en proceso

Films

- El Silencio No Existe (Opera Prima) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdB1W80iTyQ]

Other Film Work

Buenos Aires, Argentina

* No Somos Nada: CAMARA (8 min.) 2005
* Ausente – Presente: CAMARA - DIRECCION DE FOTOGRAFIA - MONTAJE (8 min.) 2005
* Decadencia: CAMARA - DIRECCION DE FOTOGRAFIA(8 min.)2005
* Sub – Zero: CAMARA(8 min.) 2005
* Un Colchón y una pistola: MONTAJE(8 min) 2005

Quito, Ecuador

* Mi anillo: CAMARA - DIRECCION DE FOTOGRAFIA (8 min.) 2005
* Guardia – Vigilante: CAMARA - DIRECCION DE FOTOGRAFIA (12 min.) 2007
* Drag Nights: CAMARA – DIRECCION DE FOTOGRAFIA (7 min.) 2007
* Mary: CAMARA – DIRECCION DE FOTO (8 min.) 2007
* Sin Nombre: CAMARA – DIRECCION DE FOTOGRAFIA (indefinido) en proceso
* Quito – Toki: CAMARA – DIRECCION DE FOTOGRAFIA – MONTAJE (20 min.) en proceso

Festivals and Awards

Festival I.B. de The Dwight School

Nueva York 2004

Special Prize of the Jury for“Popular quitumbe”

Programa Arte y Parte de la C.C.E

Quito 2004

Best Short film of the Week for“El Chirisiqui”

Festival Mirada Joven

Cuenca 2004

Best Director for:“El Chirisiqui”Best Photography for“Zapatos Rotos”Best Smallfilm“El Chirisiqui”Special Mention for Editing for“Zapatos Rotos”Nomination for Best Photography“El Chirisiqui”Nomination for Best Experimental for“el Chirisiqui”

Festival V.I.A.R.T

Caracas 2005

Nomination and Excibition of“El Chiriyacu”Nomination and Excibition of“Obsesión”Nomination and Excibition of“Ni tu ni nadie”

Washington DC International Film Festival

Washington D.C. 2007

Best Film in the Making“El Silencio No Existe”Sneak Preview“El Silencio No Existe”Official Selection“El Silencio No Existe”

External links

* [http://www.dciff.org/filmGuide/festival_catalog_search_details.cfm?iid=1166 D.C.I.F.F]
* [https://dwight.edu/data/files/gallery/PublicationsDownloads/Dwight_Today_Spring_2004.pdf Dwight School IB film festival]
* [http://www.intisana.com/noticias-ayer/noticias2003-2004/premio-cine.htm Recognitions Intisana School] DEFAULTSORT:Coba, Camilo