Oscar Ruiz Navia

Oscar Ruiz Navia is a cinephile who never attended a proper film school Part of a new generation of Colombian filmmakers he developed his interest in film on his own and in 2006 founded Contravía Another Way in English a production company to develop art house films in his country where there is not a huge film industry His first feature Crab Trap 2010 won several awards including the FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival that year