Patricio Burbano - Journalist & Filmmaker

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This short documentary is based on real testimonies of victims of violence who survived and managed to escape from Africa to tell their stories.

Alfredo Gangotena: Tiger Hunter is a creative documentary about the obsession with the figure of the Ecuadorian poet and mathematician Alfredo Gangotena (1904 - 1944) based on the discovery of a series of boxes with unpublished materials from the poet found in Europe and Latin America.

Bright Minds was a production for FIPSE Foundation of Madrid where I had the privilege of interviewing different innovative scientists in the medical field. This research team from the University of Valencia was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine with its development in the regeneration of carilaginous tissues.

A series of interviews with the most relevant academic authors in the Spanish-speaking world. In this episode, I interviewed Mexican microbiologist Ana Flisser about her book on infectious diseases during the pandemic of COVID-19.

Led by tenor Everett McCorvey, the ASE has specialized in rescuing songs composed by African American slaves in the southern United States.

In 2015, the group traveled to Ecuador at the invitation of Teatro Sucre. After the series of concerts was over, the members of ASE traveled to the Chota Valley (Imbabura), also known as 'Andean Africa'.

At the request of Teatro Sucre, I produced and directed this short documentary that includes interviews, rehearsals and concerts of the ensemble.

In 2018, I wrote the article 'A Carnival of Cinema in India', which won an award from the Indiwood Film Festival in Hydebarad (India) for the best article written by an international correspondent about the festival.