LAURA OTÁLORA (Bogotá, Colombia, 1989) is a visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. For several years she was the coordinator of the Catalan production company CAD Productions, where she carried out various documentary projects for international organizations such as the UN and the World Bank, in Africa, Europe, Asia and America. In 2018 she directed Chef's Diaries: Scotland, her first feature-length documentary, about the renowned restaurant Celler de Can Roca. It was awarded Best Documentary at the Girona International Film Festival and officially selected at several international festivals around the world such as Seattle, Edinburgh and Malaga, among others, and is currently on platforms such as Amazon Prime Video and Filmin.

In 2021 the series Distil Your World premiered on Amazon Prime Video, in which she wrote the screenplay and directed two episodes. In the same year she also directed the documentary series Vivas, which aired in 2022 on several national television channels. In 2024, her documentary De Colombia pa'l Mundo, won an India Catalina award and premiered on HBOmax. She is directing her second feature documentary Capitán and the documentary series Impermanentes, which won the Solo Sérieles pitch for Netflix at Ventana Sur in 2023. She is also content director of the Pedro Costa/ Apichatpong Weerasethakul Lab and professor of Documentary Film at the National Film School (ENACC).

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