4direcciones

About 4direcciones

4direcciones is an award-winning Colombian production company specializing in high-quality cultural, and environmentaly-concious content for film, web and television. Co-founded by a strong creative duo of audio-visual artists with established careers in film, television, and documentary production, our credits include acclaimed projects on art, history, and the Amazon for regional and international television stations. On-going collaborations with distinguished filmmakers like Peter Webber (Girl with a Pearl Earring), and an internationally recognized animation studio, allow us to develop the highest-quality socially relevant projects, while strong alliances with NGOs like Gaia Amazon, provide us with unprecedented access to indigenous communities. We are currently developing an animation studio devoted to content for children with projects set up to debut worldwide.

MANIFESTO

1. We believe in invoking the four sacred directions before beginning any project

2. We believe that all that we think, say and do forcefully resounds in the east, south, west and north.

3. We believe in the 4 winds which carry messages to all corners of the earth.

4. We believe that audiovisuals are a tool, an arrow, a caldron, a fertile jungle plot, a box of feathers and a burning fire. They are the message and the messenger, good omen and also bad advice. That is why they are our sacred tool and we treat them carefully.

5. We believe in audiovisuals as the result of a collective process of creation, a meeting place, and for that reason believe in the wisdom of all of us who work here.

6. We believe in our people: we are thankful for the strength of their heart, the determination of their stride and their power to transform all that they touch with their hands.

7. We believe than an audiovisual piece is not only a document or an occasional record of a moment but the accompaniment of a process. It is never an end: hopefully it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

8. We believe in good relations and that they uphold our creations like a net or spider´s web.

9. We believe that imagination is a form of remembrance. We believe that the process of audiovisual creation is an exercise in recovering memory. It is the possibility of heading towards the origin: for that reason all our creations are 100% original.

10. We believe we are witnesses of this age and we must tell everyone that the memory of America has arisen after five hundred years of misunderstandings.

11. We are thankful for sacred sites and plants and lakes, and the natural strength of our territory which nourishes this company.

12. We are thankful for being the heirs of the fortune of the sun and the moon which the ancestors of the four Directions bequeathed us.

13. We are thankful to the spectacled bear for existing and we wish him to continue dancing for the continuity of life.