Patricia Castaño

Patricia Castano studied social work and rural communication in the 70s, in Colombia, England and Holland. After an intense experience in communication, socio-economic studies and development in the country and Latin America, she committed completely to the field of the cinema and documentary television in the middle of 80s.

Thanks to an honorary scholarship of the British Council and her work in Colombia with the BBC and public and educative television, she studied cinema and television with the BBC and the Open University in England.

She founded Citurna Productions with of Doris Eder de Zambrano and Adelaida Trujillo. They have co-directed several documentary productions, among them:

-La ley del Monte (Law of the Jungle),
-Seguimos adelante (Nothing Will Stop Us)
-Las otras guerras de la la cocaine (Behind the Cocaine Wars)
-El mundo rotundo de Fernando Botero (The Rotund World o Fernando Botero)

All of these productions have been awarded with important international prizes. In addition to the documentary direction, Patricia has been committed to the environmental and educational topics in TV production, and also in the edutainment scheme addressed to children. She developed and produced the idea of Franja Metro, a successful daily programme for children which, during two years, Citurna, in Consortium with Cigala, produced for the Regional Channel in Bogotá.

From year 2000, she has been a member of the Board of directors of INPUT and also of the group of Latin American producers that promote Prix Jeunesse and the World Summit on Media for Children of the 2004 in Rio de Janeiro.

The production of Tune In To Kids (2001), broadcasted by the regional channel in Bogotá, in which Patricia worked as Executive Producer was awarded by Unicef and the International Council of NATAS with a special Emmy prize.

In her short whiles of leisure, she combines his activities of Citurna and Imaginario with the Asociación de amigos de la Bilblored (Association of Friends of the Biblored of the Capital District).

War Takes
A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castaño, 2002, 78 min., Color
With conflicts raging on nearly every continent, war now regularly transcends the battlefield into everyday life—whether its increased security at air...