Enrique Pedráza-Botero

Visual Artist and Filmmaker

No se ve desde acá

Enrique Pedráza-Botero is a visual artist and filmmaker from Bogotá, Colombia. In 2025, he was named one of Vimeo’s Breakout Creators.

He was recently appointed to co-lead the Documentary Film Initiative at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School, working to support new research, analysis, innovation and provocation around core issues facing the documentary field.

His film, Alpha Kings, premiered at IFFR in 2023, and won the Grand Jury Prize for Social Commentary at AFI Fest. It is now available to stream on The New Yorker and Vimeo Staff Picks. Enrique is currently releasing a new short film, No se ve desde acá, which premiered at ZINEBI, screened at New Directors/New Films, and won Best Documentary Short at Palm Springs ShortFest, as well as the Santa Lucia Award for Best Editing at Bogoshorts. His work has screened at MoMA, Film at Lincoln Center, True/False Film Fest, Camden International Film Festival, Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, Museum of the Moving Image, among others. He is currently developing his first feature film with A24.

He served as Senior Manager of Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program for six years, running Creative Labs and leading the program’s international strategy. He also contributed to awarding $2 million/year in unrestricted grants to documentary filmmakers globally. He was Director of Programming for Ambulante Documentary Film Festival in its California edition, and has served as consultant and juror in numerous selection committees for nonprofit institutions and media funds, including Sundance Documentary Fund, Points North Institute, Johns Hopkins’ Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, IDA Documentary Awards, Proimágenes Colombia, IMCINE Mexico, and Concordia’s Fellowship Program. Enrique is currently part of the selection committee for the Tribeca Film Festival.

He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film & Television from the New York Film Academy and a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University.

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