Islander Cinema

Daughter of two doctors, Viviana Gómez Echeverry was born in Cali, the capital of salsa and a drug-infested city in Colombia during the 80's. She grows up in between drugs trafficants war, where life can be changed for cocaine or money. 

It is in this context, between violence and the joy of music, where Viviana begins to explore the cinema with friends, in a response to the concerns of adolescence. 

She goes then to study Social Media in Bogota and finds her passion for the camera, so she travels to Spain to specialize herself. After a couple of years in Europe, she returned to Colombia and got involved as a photographer in several documentary films. But the camera is not enough, she is interested in stories that portray life and wants to show her point of view. She takes the path of Direction as a quest to tell, within the cinema’s language, her own stories.

• 16TH BIRTHDAY, 2013 – Writer and Director of the shortfilm.

• MERIDIANO 81 – Writer and Director of the long lenght feature film in Development. (Prized by the FDC ( Colombian Fund for Cinematographic Development 2012 adn Ibermedia 2012, in development Category. Participated in the VIII Coproduction Meetings in Guadalajara, and in the II Screenwriter Lab of the IV Bolivia Lab. Also helped EGEDA.

• THE ETERNAL NIGHT OF TWELVE MOONS, 2013 – Director of Photography of the Long Length Documentary. (Oficial Selection of BERLINALE 2013, and of International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias, Prized with the Jury´s special Prized in 100% Colombia. And more to come…)

• TRÓPICO EXÓTICO, 2012 - Director ( Shortfilm, prized by the FDC, Colombian Fund for Cinematographic Development, in Shortfilm Production Category in 2011) Debut at the Short Film Corner of Cannes International Film Festival 2012 and Official Selection at the NYILFF and at the SFLFF 2012, and at the CIMM Festival 2013)

• THE ELEMENT OF TRUST, 2012 – First Asistant of the Director and DP (long lentgh documentary in post Producción)

• NEONATO, 2011 - DP (long length documentary prized by the FDC, oficial selection in XIII edition de la Muestra Internacional de Documental)

• RECUERDAME, First Asistant Camera (long length feature film in post Producción)

• EL VUELCO DEL CANGREJO, 2010 – First Asistant Camera (long length feature film prized by Fipressi in Berlinale 2012 and in many festivals)

• HANS DE LA SUERTE, 2010 - DP (short film)

• BOGOTA CHANGE, 2009 – 2nd camera unit and Director First Asistant (long length documentary)

• SYMBIOSIS, 2006 - Director (short film, Selection at the Festival de Cartas Filmadas, Le Havre. NISI MASA)

• DC LOOPS, 2004 - Director y camera (short documentary Selection for the Festival de Sonidos Electrónicos del Jorge Eliécer Gaitán )

• FISHING IN MY ISLAND, 2004 - Director y camera (short documentary for UNESCO)