Director’s Bio

Aldo is an award-winning Colombian-born director based in London. Aldo completed his first short film Silence in 2007. The film is a contemplation on how the absence of words affects a couple’s relationship. The film was co-written, directed and edited by Aldo. It was nominated for best short at the Sacramento International Film Festival in 2008. It was also screened at the Boston Film Festival, Short Circuit in New York City, Filmstock International Festival and Portobello Film Festival in London. Lover is Aldo’s second film and won the President Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. He is currently working on his first feature project.

Aldo started shooting his own films –stop-motion with small action figures — with a friend’s camcorder at age 11, in Bogotá. He grew up around family and friends for whom films are what you go see in movie theatres, not what you dedicate your life to doing. He was educated at a strict Jesuit private school where young men were being groomed to be the next generation of the country’s political leaders, but Aldo kept true to his vocation. He realized that it would be easier to do so if he left his surroundings. At 19, Aldo moved to New York City where he got a B.A. in film and television at the School of Visual Arts.

After graduating, Aldo worked as a freelance cameraman and news editor for a variety of newsrooms in New York, including the BBC, France’s Antenne 2, and Reuters among others. In 2001, he moved to London to work as an editor for music television. In 2003, he was selected by the BBC’s Talent Competition to direct a music video. His entry, Dog Day was selected among three hundred entries and it aired on Top Of The Pops in the summer of 2003. In January 2005, he returned to New York to be part of the production team of a twelve-day shoot for The Argentine (Che), the feature film based on the life of Che Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh, which premiered in Cannes 2008.

After gaining experience as an editor in newsrooms and music video channels Aldo went on to work as a director on documentaries. His work for a production company in Notting Hill, specializing in historical and ancestry films, has been featured in The Independent and The Guardian as well as the BBC’s Culture Show. Aldo currently works as a television editor working on several feature shows for CNN International.