Ángel Ricardo Linares Colmenares

Ángel is a Venezuelan documentary filmmaker based in México. Graduated from the National School of Film Arts at UNAM (ENAC-UNAM). Nominated for the Ariel Award and awarded for best documentary short film at Morelia International Film Festival among other national and international awards. His documentaries have been screened at the Semaine de la Critique of the Cannes Film Festival, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Havana Film Festival, among others. Selected as Jackson Wild Summit Fellow 2022; Santiago Wild Lab Fellow 2023; at the Pathways Mentorship Program of the Realscreen Summit 2021 and the Emerging Content Creator Initiative of the NALIP. His work is focused on the social and environmental issues of indigenous, peasant and rural communities in Latin America and the world.