MARCIA JUZGA

Marcia Juzga, born on December 25 in Boston, USA.

Director and audiovisual artist with over fifteen years of experience in film and television. Graduated with a technical degree in Film and Photography from the Unitec University from Bogotá, Colombia and courses taken in cinematography and documentary in La Havana, Cuba. 

2000 - 2004, worked in Los Angeles, California as executive producer for Utopia Films and Ofrenda Films in the realization of TV commercials, music videos and independent films, while travelling through Europe scouting and pitching for customers to develop their advertising projects in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, thus supporting Latin American industry.

2004 - 2006, after the experience gained in advertising, starts directing reality TV-shows for the Hispanic Market and Community in Los Angeles and Houston, working for Channel 61/62 KCRW TV, experience that left lots of initiatives and expectations to pursue a directing career.

2006 - 2009, a self-financed three-year journey touring several Asian countries dedicated to capture and document multiple images (photo, audio and video) from the people and areas visited.

2009 – 2013, Bogotá, Colombia, worked as audiovisual director doing self-promotions for the National TV Station SEÑAL COLOMBIA. Also established a communications group visiting different isolated populations in the country hit by the violence of the inner conflict, supporting the return and restitution of the displaced, founding community radio and TV channels instructing and forming the local people in the basic technical issues so they can manage and produce their own content.

Director and documentary researcher in different TV production companies in Colombia, thus participating in national and international programs. 

Among them, the most important are the documentary TV series "The name of the glory" from CM& and Señal Colombia, the documentary journalism series "Intervention" for A&E TV Channel and BeTV Productions, and her latest documentary "SOUNDS OF SAI" about the state of music production in San Andres island, which was included in several film festivals in Europe and South America.

Currently living in Dakar, Senegal, where is dedicated to making documentaries for organizations such as USAID (The U.S Agency for International Development), UNCDF (United Nations Development Fund) , WORLD BANK GROUP, Amnesty International, Save the Children, among others.