Camilo Salazar Prince is an experimental filmmaker born in Athens, Georgia who grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2000 as a freshmen geology student in Bogotá he produced his first photographic series, a visual investigation of the caños, a ubiquitous open sewage system that cuts across Bogotá. In 2001 he moved to Berkeley, CA where he got his B.A. in Philosophy focusing on the works of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. At Berkeley he worked closely with video installation artist Anne Walsh and screenwriter Mira Koppel producing a number of experimental shorts, screenplays and sound installations. His first short “La Continuidad de los Cables” inspired by a Cortazar short story was shot in Bogotá in 2004. The short screened at the Bogotá and Cartagena Film festivals in 2004 and was awarded the Eisner Award at UC Berkeley in 2005. From 2005 and 2007 he wrote and directed four more experimental shorts: “Call Me”, “Waiting Pains”, “Somewhere in La Mancha”, and “Dog Star Night”, In 2006 began work on his first feature film “Cienfuegos” in Tijuana, Mexico. Most of his work focuses on exploring original and innovative narrative structures in visually challenging and stimulating manners.