Nico Forero Pro

My name is Nico Forero, a filmmaker, cinematographer and editor from Colombia. After graduating with a bachelor degree in Communication studies, in Bogotá, I immediately started working as a cinematographer/researcher on “Especiales Pirry’, a cultural TV program broadcasted across the country, tackling stories related to environment, national conflict and public health. 

After 5 years there, I joined the Fundación Teletón Colombia as Researcher and Filmmaker, where I designed the content lines and made a series of short documentaries about disability. During this time, I also worked as a visual development contractor for UNHCR carrying out audiovisual pieces in Colombia, Panama, Venezuela and Ecuador. Also worked for the development organisation OXFAM, elaborating a short documentary about Colombian peasant women. 

In 2012 I joined as a cinematographer the production team of the long documentaries ‘Turtle Boy’, made for Channel 4 and NatGeo in the UK; and ‘Classico Latino and friends in London', a project that aimed to promote Colombian music and culture in Europe.

My work presented in different projects has been awarded with the Uni5 TV Prize to Television in 2006, a nomination in the Cesares Prizes of Colombia in the same year, The National Simon Bolivar Prize to Young Journalism in 2009 and The Prize of Environmental Journalism in 2012. In the same year, I was offered by the foundation Nuevo Periodismo Latino americano a scholarship to be part of a two weeks workshop around Literary Journalism in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Then I moved to Australia to study Interactive Digital Media at TAFE Institute, where he was awarded as the international student of the year 2016.

Afterwards I was selected as part of the DOCNOMADS program, a master degree course in documentary film directing that allows filmmakers from all over the world to study while traveling through an itinerary film school model, given by the Universidad Lusófona de Tecnologias y Humanidades in Portugal, the National University of theatre and film in Hungary and the LUCA school of arts in Belgium.

As part of Docnomads, I made 4 films: Grogue de Amadora, (Portugal, 2015) an exploration of the African neighbourhood in the outskirts of Lisbon, Portraits of the hills (Hungary, 2016), a collection of family stories of a Gypsy community in the north of Hungary; Lengua Serpente (Belgium, 2016), a personal reflection of the colonisation process in Latin America through the language and religion, and Le Pays Noir (Belgium, 2017), a depiction of the social and economical crisis of the industrial town of Charleroi 

graduated in 2017 and decided to stay in Europe. Currently I am taking a master in Animation film at LUCA school of arts in Brussels.