nadorno

Natalie Adorno is born in London in 1977 from a colombian mother and a bolivian father . When she was nine months old, she moves with her mother to Paris to joint her mother’s family. She is nineteen years old when she goes for the first time to Colombia. Very quickly she falls in love with the country. At first, at the search of her identity, she decides to stay to study anthropology at the Universidad Nacional, influenced by a group of students, she learns to know at the occation of the first shooting she participates:“ Entre la Soledad y el Recuerdo” (1997) by Samuel Avila, a short-movie where she plays the antagonist of one of the principals characters. Years later, just before she went to the colombian Amazonia during her last university semester, she participates as translator in the filming of the french-colombian production: “La gente honrada” by Bob Decout (2005) with Victoria Abril. This shooting becomes a practic school and certanly transforms her look over her experience in the Amazonia: she thinks about the option of the cultural resistance as a way to rescue the peuples identity througth the video-cam. Paralell with the writing of her thesis, she creates with a couple of friends “Ojo de Buey” (2005 - 2007) for the audiovisual production and realize socials videos. In 2006 she participates as adviser with homeless people and they create tv news inside the transit home :“Noticalle”. In 2007, she participates free of wages in the 29 Festival du Cinema du Reel, sociological and anthropological film festival in Paris. The same year she begins to work as social investigator for the CINEP, a jesuitic NGO for the Human Rights where she realized some shorts films about environmental subjects and human right