Francisco Norden
Francisco North ( born November 9, 1929 in Brussels) is a Colombian film director, screenwriter and film producer.
The son of an Austrian father and a Colombian mother visited until 1948, the Colegio Mayor del Rosario in Bogotá. He then began to study architecture at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, which he continued at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Polytechnic School of Architecture in London.
In 1955 he returned to Columbia, where he worked as a film and theater critic for magazines such as El Mercurio, La Calle, Mito and El Tiempo. From 1958 he studied in Paris at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ( IDHEC ). In 1963, his first short film Las murallas de Cartagena, the more short films followed. With Los balcones de Cartagena ( 1966) he won the Grand Prize at the Film Festival of Campiones. Until the late 1970s, further developed documentary short films and feature-length films.
At the Festival of Tarbes his film Se llamaría Colombia (1975 ) was awarded. 1984 was the feature film Cóndores no todos los días entierran after the novel by Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal. With this film about the Colombian civil war in the early 1950s, he won awards at the film festivals in Biarritz, Chicago, Huelva, Havana and Bogotá.
For the French television produced north in 1989 on different continents, a documentary series about the culture of nomads and 1992 La ruta del Libertador about personalities of Colombian history. In 2005 he turned to her own script after the film El trato.