AFTER THE CROSSFIRE

WITNESSES

VOICES AGAINST OBLIVION

RICARDO VELASCO, Ph.D.

I am a social documentary media producer, director and scholar, PhD in Latin American Studies from the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. My prior academic merits include a Master of Arts Degree in Social Documentation from the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a MA degree in Cultural Studies from the University of the Andes in Bogotá, and a Bachelor of Music degree with Major in Sound Engineering and Minor in Composition and Production. My work can be located at the interface between critical inquiry and creative documentary practice in the fields of cultural and visual studies, memory studies and visual anthropology. I have been recipient of several grants and awards, including the Andrew Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Fellowship, the Evan Frankel Fellowship in the Humanities and the Teresa Lozano Long Fellowship, by the University of Texas at Austin, and the Human Rights Fellowship of the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley (2013).

Film Festivals

Bogotá International Short Film Festival

BOGOSHORTS. December 9-15, 2015

Internacional Human Rights Film Festival

Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena. May 24-28, 2016.