Ciro Guerra

Ciro Guerra born 6 February 1981 is a Colombian film director and screenwriter He is best known for his film Embrace of the Serpent 2015 who was the first Colombian film ever to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards He made his first film Wandering Shadows in 2004 at the age of 23 The film was selected as Colombian submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards however it was not nominated His next film The Wind Journeys competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as Colombian submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards it also was not selected His 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent was screened in the Directors Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won the CICAE Award It won the Best Film award at the International Film Festivals of Odessa and Lima where it also received a special prize by the Critics Jury The film was among the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards being the first Colombian film ever to be nominated In 2018 Guerra released his fourth feature film Birds of Passage codirected by Cristina Gallego It was selected to open the 50th edition of the Directors Fortnight section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival His next feature film Waiting for the Barbarians will be his first in English and is starring Mark Rylance as the lead