Luis Ospina (1949-2019) was a free filmmaker. A box of surprises. An inventive filmmaker, always against the tide, controversial, energetic. Luis Ospina seemed eternal, and perhaps he was: two years after his death, the filmmaker behind such indispensable titles in Latin American and world cinema as Agarrando pueblo (1978) and Un tigre de papel (2007) surprises with a new work filmed with his partner Lina González during a series of trips across Asia (2014-2017). El ojo del turista is a reinvention of seeing: for the filmmaker and spectator alike. Subtitled "XIII piezas fáciles", and conceived of as a film and installation at the same time, the film reinvents how tourists see and stands up for this as a source of enjoyment. (GDP)
Born in Cali, Colombia in 1949, and passed away in Bogotá, Colombia in 2019. Film studies at USC and UCLA. Along with Carlos Mayolo and Andrés Caicedo, he belonged to the “Grupo de Cali”. He directed 35 films, including two feature-length fiction films and seven feature-length documentaries. His films have won awards at the international film festivals of Oberhausen, Biarritz, Havana, Sitges, Miami, Lima and Toulouse. His work have been shown at the Tate Gallery, Simon Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dokumenta Kassel and UCLA Film Archive. A complete retrospective of his films was shown at DocLisboa (2018). Since 2007 he has been the Director of the Cali International Film Festival - FICCALI.