 | El Gourmet Channel broadcasts "Cocoa Routes Colombia" Seven chapters taped for the series with support from Proexport Colombia
After traveling through Mexico and Ecuador from start to finish along the cocoa routes, chocolate specialist José Ramón Castillo took a new road through Colombia's cacao-producing regions. Manizales, Granada, Cubarral, Bucaramanga, Medellín, Cartagena de Indias and San Vicente de Chucurí, considered the Colombia cocoa capital, are some of the places visited by the Mexican during "The Cocoa Route: Colombia" to give TV viewers an idea of the many uses for cocoa and chocolate in Colombian cooking as well as the way it is grown and the benefits of chocolate. The seven-chapter series airs Wednesday nights, with reruns on Friday and Saturday on the international Gourmet Channel, and is a summary of the Mexican chocolate lover's 23-day visit to Colombia. Music on the show is 100% Colombian and the shows received support from Proexport Colombia. The program features stories of replacing illegal crops with cocoa plants and many other positive stories related to this product.
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Colombian Film Commission's Fam Trip Complete 
Fam Trip participants also present at 2nd Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM)
Seven film industry representatives took part in the familiarization trip organized by the Colombian Film Commission, which took place at the same time as the Bogota Audiovisual Market (BAM) from July 10-16, first to the city of Cartagena and then in the capital city. Participants included Dylan Tarason of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, LA-based independent financing and production company; David Lancaster of Bold Films, an independent financing, production, distribution and world sales company; Andrew Spaulding of Echolake Productions, one of the oldest film financing companies on the indie market with credits such as The Joneses (Demi Moore and David Duchovny), Agua by Deepa Mehta and Tsotsi by Gavin Hood; Peter Nelson of Stage 6 Films, part of Sony Pictures' world acquisitions groups; Carlos Fernandez of Filmax Entertainment, a company with Spanish capital and a catalogue of over 2,000 titles; Elanor Nett of Endgame Entertainment, the production and financing company responsible for producing and/or financing productions such as Oscar nominated Hotel Rwanda, the Golden Globe biopic winner about Bob Dylan I'm Not There, and the soon-to-be-released Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis; and Fernando Bovaira of Mod Producciones, producer of films such as Los otros and Mar adentro by Alejandro Amenábar and Biutiful by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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Second Season of Kdabra Now Airing 
FoxTelecolombia is the Colombian production company responsible for making this Moviecity series
The second season of Kdabra, the Moviecity Pack series filmed entirely in Colombia, began airing on July 3rd. The new 10-episode season was co-produced with Fox International Channels (FIC) via FoxTelecolombia and airs Sundays at 9pm (Mexico, Argentina, Colombia), 9:30pm in Venezuela and 8pm in Chile. This series began with the final scene from the first season in which the entire audience at the World Magic Competition is left physically paralyzed, including their brains, and in apparent decline with every passing minute. With performances from Christopher Von Uckermann, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Damián Alcázar, Fabio Rubiano, Joaquín Cosío, Martín Karpan and Andrea Montenegro, this second season has Luca (Christopher Von Uckermann) confronting the forces that attempt to destroy him and escaping from an unexpected and unimaginable enemy. These actors are joined by a new group including Mexican Isabel Burr (Chicas mal), Argentine Marcelo Dos Santos and Belgian Didier Van Der Hove.
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Multi-Award-Winning Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga to Visit Colombia  Guillermo Arriaga during his latest trip to Colombia, reads Kinetoscopio, the country's only film magazine.
Mexican Scheduled at Bogota's Cinemateca Distrital and at Medellin's Colombian Film Festival
Mexican screenwriter and director Guillermo Arriaga will visit Colombia again on August 22 to present the opening seminar at the 9th Medellin Colombian Film Festival. He will also be the guest speaker August 16-18, speaking on film scripts, to mark the 40th anniversary of Bogota's Cinemateca Distrital. Arriaga returns to Colombia in 2011 after offering a screenwriting master class during the 51st Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI) where his third short film was also entered in the competition.
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Colombians Triumph in the US 
John Leguizamo honored and Sofia Vergara Nominated Again for an Emmy
Colombo-American actor John Leguizamo, following his "Made in NY" award for contributions to the entertainment world and New York communications media, is scheduled to receive the COA Three Generations Prize, a special award created to honor Latinos who achieve important goals in the film world. The prize will be bestowed during the 10th New York International Film Festival taking place this year from July 27 through August 2. And Sofia Vergara has been nominated for the second year in a row for the most important television award in the US – an Emmy award – for her role in the comedy Modern Family, winner of last year's best comedy series award and nominated this year for a total of 17 awards.
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 | Andrés Burgos, director of "Sofia and the Stubborn Man", Colombian film shot in July starring Carmen Maura
Colombian director and screenwriter, Social Communications graduate from the Universidad de Antioquia with a degree in directing from Cuba's International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños. He writes for television and film, literature and the Internet and has spent several years with RCN as a programmer and adapter of journistic material for telefilms (2010), writing the series Las prepagos (2009-2010), adapting and writing the Spanish comedy Aquí no hay quién viva (2007-2009) for Colombia, writing the soap Hasta que la plata nos separe, a project by Fernando Gaitán, which earned him an India Catalina award for best soap opera script and a TV y Novelas award for best screenwriter. He also directed and wrote the medium-length film Gajes del oficio (2000), winner of the Círculo Precolombino de Oro for best national production at the Bogota Film Festival. He has published Mudanza (Alfaguara, 2008), Nunca en cines (Norma, 2005), Manual de pelea (Norma, 2004), and several short stories published in different anthologies and has been an ongoing collaborator with El Malpensante and other magazines. His first film Sofía and the Stubborn Man, a road movie, was filmed in July on location in Bogota, La Calera, Guasca, Anapoima, Apulo and Santa Marta and stars Spanish actor Carmen Maura, internationally known for her work with directors Pedro Almodóvar, Álex de la Iglesia, Alejandro Amenábar and Francis Ford Coppola as well as French actor Gerard Depardieu.
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 | Teaser for Colombian Film "El Páramo"
Teaser for the psychological thriller El Páramo (The Squad), a film by Rhayuela Cine directed by Jaime Osorio Márquez scheduled to premiere in Colombian theaters on October 6, 2011. The advance showings of this Colombian film have met with overwhelming success – not only on the film's official YouTube channel, which logged 12,296 hits in the first two weeks, but also totaled 300,000 spectatores during Latin America's largest free music festival Rock al Parque where the film opened three nights in a row for 2011's headliners including Overkill and the Dead Kennedys from the US, Buraka Som Sistema (Portugal) and La Pestilencia (Colombia).
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New Edition of Colombiamodia Scheduled for July
July 26-28 marks the 22nd edition of Colombiamoda, Colombia's Fashion Week, one of Latin America's most important fashion showcases. One of this year's new features is the New Business Model Pavilion featuring 27 brands and 60 investors from Colombia and abroad. The fair hosts 450 major commercial brands and thanks to Proexport Colombia a total of 1,600 buyers from 40 different countries will be present. The Inexmoda-UPB Knowledge Pavilion offers 28 free seminars featuring seven national and 30 national international experts and runways will present work by 18 Colombian designers, the Italian duo Leitmotiv and the Brazilian-Japanese Akihito Hira. All of this is to take place inside the 8,000 square meters of Medellin's Plaza Mayor Convention Center.
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"Burgos has written a script that is out of the ordinary. It is quite different from those I am accustomed to reading and I couldn't say no to it. By the time I read the final page I was certain I would be traveling to Colombia. I've been in many places and in many films but I still hadn't been to Colombia… The best way to be a tourist is to make a film because you have a fantastic chance to be with the people; during production you meet a wide range of people, from the casting people to the camera operator and producers. "Sofia and the Stubborn Man" is a very choral piece with many interesting actors: Constanza Duque, Gustavo Angarita and Jair Romero, "el Joe", who takes me to the sea. Besides, it's a sweet film with no pretensions, which if made well can be fantastic. People are tired of explosions, monsters and all that racket. This is pure Colombia. In my dreams, which often come true, I can see myself promoting the film across Europe".
Excerpts from an interview with Carmen Maura, Spanish actress starring in the Colombian film "Sofía and the Stubborn Man" on her expectations while filming in Colombia.
Blue Rental
Bogotá
Address: Carrera 49 # 94 - 50
Phone: (+57) 1 6115240 / 6182376
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Equipment rental service technicians for film, television and audiovisual media. Design and production of commercials, video clips, short and feature films. Lighting and photography services. Technical assistance and training of personnel, sound, production, lighting and photography.
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BajoCámara
Bogotá
Address: Calle 65 # 29 - 32
Phone: (+57) 1 3117768
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Benefit of services for the production and realization of cinematographic, advertising events such as of special effects and all other means audiovisuals, in Colombia and in the Exterior. The design and production of scenic structures for all event, musical comedies, theater and dance, among others, the import, Export, Sub Rent, rent and necessary transports of Inputs, Equipment, Materials and goods and buildings for the cinematography, events and special, commercial effects of cinema, audio-visual television and other productions for cinema and television, video and other means.
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La Milla de Oro
Región: Eastern Region
Ciudad: Medellin
Departamento: Antioquia
Nombre: La Milla de Oro
Descripción: Important commercial and touristic area located in the south-central part of the city. Includes El Poblado Avenue between the park of the same name and the Aguacatala intersection as well as public parkways, sidewalks, gardens and parks, tree-lined areas
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