Tayo Cortés

Tayo Cortés (born in Pasto, Colombia; 14th March 1978). The first twenty years of his life develop in Pasto, where an interest in photography, music and cinema germinates. In 1998 he travels to Barcelona and studies film direction in the Centre d' Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya. His first short film is Impresionismo (1999). In 2004, he co-directs the short documentary Close to Greenaway, which allows him an insight into the work of film director Peter Greenaway during the shooting of The Tulse Luper Suitcases. In 2007, Cortes makes the biopic Luis Eduardo Mora Osejo, Ecosistemas y Futuro, a documentary about the eminent botanist. In 2005, introducing social and political content into his work, he directs the full-length documentary La casa, which premiers in 2009 in the 52 DOK Leipzig where it is nominated for the Healthy Workplaces Film Award and wins the Silver Dove Award in the international competition. In Colombia, the documentary receives the Sol de los Pastos Award from the Festival Internacional de Cine de Pasto and the Best Documentary Award from the Festival de Cine y Video Rodolfo Maya. In 2023, his first fiction feature DOMO was released in Colombian theaters.