Directing
Birthday: 1965-09-02
Ricardo Coral-Dorado was born in Barbacoas, Colombia in 1965. He is a screenwriter, producer, editor and director of film and television. He has written and directed 15 short and medium-length films, as well as 8 feature films. In 1983 he traveled to Prague and entered the Prague School of Arts, Faculty of Film and Television - FAMU, where he received a degree in film and television storyline directing in 1989. From 1992 to 1993 he attended the Master in Film Script Writing organized by the Viridiana Foundation and the Autonomous University of Madrid. Between 1999 and 2000 he studied for a PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has also received a scholarship from the Fundación Carolina-Casa de América for Iberoamerican Film Scriptwriting with Un viaje por Colombia (working title), Ve y mira, final title of the script. He has been a professor and curriculum advisor at the Javeriana and Los Andes Universities in Bogota until 1997 and professor of mise-en-scène at the European Film Center and the Barcelona Film Institute until 2004. From 2006 to 2008 he was also professor of directing at the Master in Film Directing and Production at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Live-Ecib. In 2010, he was a professor at the Universidad Manuela Beltrán and visiting professor at the Universidad del Magdalena in the subjects of “Fiction Film Workshop”, “History of Narrative II” and “Feature Film Script”.
