César Augusto Acevedo

A director and screenwriter César Augusto Acevedo (1987, Colombia) graduated from the Universidad del Valle’s School of Social Communications in Cali, Colombia. The screenplay for “Land and Shade” was his graduate thesis and went on to become his first feature film. On the back of funding from the Carolina Foundation, Ibermedia’s Ibero-American Film Projects grant and various other film funds, it premiered during the Critics’ Week at the 2015 Cannes IFF and took home the “Camera D’Or” award for the best debut film. (Catalogue, Bratislava International Film Festival, 2015)