karolina.rueda@gmail.com
Pittsburgh, PA
2011






Carolina Rueda has worked in the fields of film and video since 1990. In 1999, while living in San Francisco she co-founded LatinEyes, television program that focuses on Latino culture. The main purpose of the program is to break down the stereotyped images of Hispanic people living in the US. LatinEyes received an Emmy Award for Best Cultural TV Show in 2006 (San Francisco, California).

Carolina has also participated in the creation of several documentaries and films. She participated in the production of Visitas, a film directed by Venezuelan director, Pedro Lange. Carolina was in charge of organizing in hiring talent and production team members in the preproduction stages of the film. She was camera operator and co-edited the film with the director. Between 2005 and 2007, "Visitas" was exhibited in several international film festivals. It premiered at the Festival des Films du Monde (Montréal), followed by the Freiburg International Film Festivall (Switzerland), the Chicago Latino Film Festival, Festival de cine de Granada (Spain), Bruxelles International Film Festival, Cine Las Américas (Austin, Texas), Festival de cine de Cartagena (Colombia), among others. Visitas has also been presented in university conferences and other academic venues due to its socio-political content.

She has also co-produced and coordinated the film series "Amigos del cine latinoamericano" since 2007. University of Pittsburgh.

Carolina is now working on her PhD Dissertation entitled Fantasmatic Imagination in XXI-Century Latin American Cinema: Figures of Trauma and Crisis in the Neoliberal City. University of Pittsburgh, (Hispanic Literatures and Film Studies).


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VISITAS
A film by Pedro Lange & Carolina Rueda
Director: Pedro Lange (Venezuela)
Colombia - USA - Venezuela

2005 • 90min



Elements from melodrama, the absurd, tragedy and suspense are present in this trilogy to draw a psychological sketch of violence. Through the subtle relationship of three stories and the life situations of their respective protagonists, VISITAS explores the problems of violence in Colombia, not so much as an outside experience from which one needs to find protection, but as an innermost drive, always threatening to dismantle the precarious balance of our lives.


The trilogy:

I. The Visit (La visita)


Left: Magyl Georgi (Irene), Protagonist.
Right: Ana Maria Rueda (Manuela)


Irene is a woman from the upper classes who has recently divorced. She embodies the social isolation and prejudice of people from her social class . Living in a privileged neighborhood of Bogotá, Irene decides to isolate herself from anything that could disturb the stability of her small world. Quite perturbed by the breakup of her marriage, she arrives home one night to find an unfortunate visitor. The troubling presence of a wounded man lying in the kitchen floor of her home provokes in Irene a transformation that leads her from insights about particular traumas in her life to outright cruelty. She will exercise this cruelty relentlessly against the anonymous visitor who has only spoken to ask for help.


II. The Other Guest (El otro huesped)


Enrique Giordano (Vicente Langevic)

Fearful of Bogotá’s reputation as a dangerous city, Vicente Langevic arrives in Bogotá from Chile on a business trip, with the intention of leaving the city as soon as possible. However, for reasons outside of his control, he must remain in Bogotá for a few more days. Vicente’s stay in Bogotá takes him from surprise to surprise. Eventually he will realize that his aloofness to the horrors committed by the military dictatorship in his own country amounts to complicity and guilt. And he will pay for such complicity in a turn of events that dismantles the very core of his identity.


III. The Burial (El entierro)


Luz Stella Luengas (Alicia)


In the third part of the trilogy the visitors are a family of “desplazados”, "deplaced" people who, caught in the cross fire of Colombia’s war, flee their homes in the countryside to lead homeless lives in Bogotá and other cities in Colombia. The father, Sebastian has disappeared, Claudia, the daughter is sick with a high fever and Alicia, the mother, not knowing what to do and having no place to go, ends up spending cold nights beneath a bridge in the city’s highways, in the company of other homeless people. The only thing Alicia knows with certainty is that the health of her daughter is getting worse, that her husband is nowhere to be seen, and that she is s in a city that could care less for her predicament.

Trailer. Click below (lo res)


Film Credits:
Cast
Mayil Georgi - Irene
Enrique Giordano - Vicente
Luz Stella Luengas - Alicia
Alvaro Rodríguez
Inés Prieto
Raúl Gutiérrez
Hernando Montenegro
Toto Vega
Luis Carlos Prieto


Crew
Line Production & Casting: José Vicente Rodríguez
Camera: Carolina Rueda
Editors: Pedro Lange, Carolina Rueda
Photography:
Freddy Fehrmann, John Jairo Rico
Sound: Jaime Cujabán
Original Score:
Felipe Pérez Uribe
Sound Design: Andrés Peláez
Post Production and Colorization: Crear TV, Colombia



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LatinEyes
Television Program


Short history on LatinEyes:


LatinEyes was founded in 1999 in San Francisco, CA by Carolina Rueda and Andrés Pruna. Shorly after, Laura Boone joined the working team.

Latin Eyes first appeared on Public Access Televisión in San Francisco, CA. Six months later it aired on ATT-Cable TV. In september 2000 LatinEyes entered Bay-TV, Channel 35. The show's popularity continued to grow and in June 2001 LatinEyes was offered a spot on KRON, Channel 4 (NBC afiliate at the time). Since then LatinEyes has received several recognition awards and 4 Emmy nominations for Best Cultural Show. In 2006, LatinEyes was awarded an EMMY in the category of "Best Cultural Show."
Besides being co-founder, for the first 3 years Carolina Rueda worked as co-producer of segments, camera person and editor. She also was the creator of the logo and all the graphics related to the image of LatinEyes.


LatinEyes airs all over the U.S. on 100+ TV stations, including FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC and independent stations. (click here)


Watch opening sequence (divided in four parts) (lo res)





LatinEyes USA production:
Andrés Pruna, Laura Boone

Promo for Colombia:
Producers: Carolina Rueda, Javier Delgado
Host: Noelle Schonwald