Enrique Pedraza-Botero

Enrique is a visual artist, filmmaker from Bogotá, Colombia. In 2025, he was named one of Vimeo’s Breakout Creators. He was recently appointed to co-lead the Documentary Film Initiative at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School, working to support new research, analysis, innovation and provocation around core issues facing the documentary field. His film, Alpha Kings, premiered at IFFR in 2023, and won the Grand Jury Prize for Social Commentary at AFI Fest. It is now available to stream on The New Yorker and Vimeo Staff Picks. Enrique is currently releasing a new short film, No se ve desde acá, which screened at New Directors/New Films and won Best Documentary Short at Palm Springs ShortFest, as well as the Santa Lucia award for Best Editing at Bogoshorts. It will be released in early 2026 by PBS and Reel South. His work has screened at MoMA, Film at Lincoln Center, True/False Film Fest, Camden International Film Festival, Festival de Nouveau Cinema, Museum of Moving Image, among others. He is currently developing his first feature film. He served as Senior Manager of Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program for six years, running Creative Labs, and leading the program’s international strategy. He was Director of Programming for Ambulante Documentary Film Festival in its California edition, and has served as consultant and Juror in numerous selection committees for nonprofit institutions and media funds, including Points North Institute, John Hopkins’ Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, IDA Documentary Awards, Proimagenes Colombia, IMCINE Mexico and Concordia’s Fellowship Program. Enrique is currently part of the selection committee for the Tribeca Film Festival. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film & Television from the New York Film Academy and a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University.

ABOUT S.E.C.T.O.R. B

S.E.C.T.O.R. B observes how autonomous surveillance systems and the expanding economy of military futurism transform immigrant neighborhoods into spaces marked by invisible pressure and suspicion, altering how people move, gather, and disappear.

Film

S.E.C.T.O.R. B

Program Affiliation

Firelight Fund

Cohort Year

2025

Website

epedrazabotero.com

Instagram

@enriquepedrazabotero


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