|
|
Curriculum
Vitae
Hugo Santander was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia in 1968. In 1990
he graduated in Social Communication from the Universidad
Javeriana where he also started a Ph.D. in Philosophy.
In 1994, after staging several theater
plays
as
the director of Arte Facto Teatro, and after obtaining a Post-graduate
degree in Screenwriting from the Universidad del Rosario, he moved to
the US , where he pursued an MFA in Film and Media Arts at Temple
University.
Immediately after his graduation, having produced and directed several
short films (amongst them po,
which won the 1996 Temple University
Motion Picture Association Scholarship,) he was appointed Associate
Professor of Screenwriting and Creative Writing at the
Universidade Católica Portuguesa of Oporto, Portugal, a country
where
he also directed lhas do Porto (Porto Ghettos) , a documentary
broadcast in five continents by RTP (Public Radio and Television of
Portugal).
In 2000 he moved to England, where he lectured at the University of
Salford on Media Management, Acting for the Camera and Acting for
Shakespeare--a course that included the direction and staging of his
adaptation of Timon of Athens.
A 2002–2003 Lector of Spanish at the University of Manchester, he was
awarded with a 2002 CEP fellowship, which allowed him to lecture at the
American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) on Media Management,
Screenwriting, Media in Conflict and History of American Media.
Hugo has written several entries for the Hodder Education Encyclopedia
Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics (London: 2006.) He is also the
author of The Crisis of Atheism, published in The Philosopher, the
Journal of the Philosophical Society of England, and a novel published
both Colombia and Spain: Nuevas Tardes en Manhattan (Manhattan New
Soirées).
His first long-feature documentary Manatí: Portrait of a
third-world
happy Town, was edited in London between 2003 and 2006. In a twofold tour de force he has produced and
shot two
long-feature digital films: Hamlet Unbound (Philadelhia, 1998), and
Kennedy's Crimes (Bucaramanga, 2010), both with no budget and with
non-professional actors. As Associate Professor at the Faculty of
Communications and Media Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de
Bucaramanga, Hugo designed and consolidated from 2005 to 2010 the
curriculum of the current program in Audovisual Arts, instructing the
first generation of professional filmmakers in Bucaramanga, his
hometown.
His short film Noche de Brujas (Witche's Night) was recently showcased
at The Orlando Film
Festival 2010.
Since August 2010, Hugo works as an Associate Professor at the Sivaji
Ganesan Film and Television Institute at SRM University, Tamil
Nadu, India. |
|