La Retratista

A crude portrait of the lives of three young people defined by violence in a neighborhood within the comunas of Medellín under the control of a paramilitary gang.
It is one of the most watched documentaries in the history of Colombia. It was widely reviewed in the national press, commented by columnists, degree theses and academic studies in approaches from conflict, religion to teenage pregnancy. It won several international awards and was featured on more than 40 channels around the world, such as the BBC, PBS, HBO Olé, among others.

• Directio: Margarita Martínez
• Production: Juanita León – lasillavacia.com

Tells the behind-the-scenes story of the first presidential campaign that shook the status quo in Colombia, when Antanas Mockus was close to winning the presidency in 2010.

Direction and Production: Margarita Martínez, Miguel Salazar

This film portrays the long struggle for the land of the Nasa, indigenous people of southern Colombia. Winner of the best documentary of the south at the Havana Film Festival.

Best documentary of the South, International Film Festival of Havana

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: United Nations Office against drugs and crime

Through Rosa and her community, a challenge remains in Colombia for decades: the integration of the coca farmers to the formal economy, fumigation, substitution and repression in a circle that is repeated without overcoming the rural marginality of coca

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: Caracol Televisión

Narrated by Carlos Vives, this film tells the story of six children from six different places in the country, from six diverse families, who give us clues about how we might be in the future. We will be filming again in 2019, when the children are 12 years old, to continue their follow-up and make a portrait of this generation of Colombians.

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Producción: Caracol Televisión

La guerra la hace gente de carne y hueso y cuando los dolores y odios que atrapan a los seres humanos empiezan a disminuir, quedan aquellos heridos, marginados, con vidas difíciles, rezagados del tiempo y sobreviven con lo que queda: el cariño de la familia, la realidad de estar al margen de la sociedad e inventarse una nueva vida.

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: Caracol Televisión

Portrays four young cyclists who aspire to emulate the exploits of Lucho Herrera, Santiago Botero and Cochise, with whom they meet and receive advice. One of them, Miguel Ángel López, is already becoming a figure in the international cycling circuit.

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: International Center for Transitional Justice

For the International Center for Transitional Justice we made the short “Victims: anonymous in the war, protagonists in peace”, which premiered in November 2017.

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: Inter-American Press Association (SIP)

Orlando Sierra, deputy director of the newspaper La Patria de Manizales, was murdered. From his influential column, he denounced corruption. This is the story of a crime that continues, partly in impunity.

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: Cali Mayor's Office

Through the story of a group of Guapi that participates in the Petronio Álvarez festival in Cali - where the best of the Pacific musical culture is shown - there are the dreams, customs, love for music and illusions of some of the young people of the Black Cauca.

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: Fescol Friedrich Ebert Stifftung - Colombia

National Peace Prize 2013
Winner: Las Pavas
A community that unites and in civil resistance faces powerful landowners who want to strip them of their land.

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia - Embassy of Colombia in Lima

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of the asylum of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre at the Colombian embassy in Lima during four years, the Foreign Ministry pays tribute to this great Latin American thinker, whose life Colombia had the privilege of defending from the dictatorship that chased him.

• Direction: Margarita Martínez
• Production: Chancellery

Inaugural video for the 2014 Pacific Summit