German Gutierrez
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German Gutierrez was born in Bogota, Colombia. He spent several years in Paris where he studied theatre, then moved to Montreal where he has lived and worked for the past twenty years. Following film studies at Algonquin College in Ottawa, he worked as a cameraman on numerous public affairs TV programs for Radio-Canada and documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada, as well as for many privately-owned film companies both in Canada and abroad. He quickly moved from the technical side of filmmaking to directing his own documentaries. He has worked across Canada and around the world, notably in Latin America, as well as in Africa and Asia.
Recent projects
The Coca-Cola Case
Producer – Director
Two lawyers, Terry Collingsworth of the International Labor Rights Fund in Washington and Daniel Kovalick who works with the United Steel Workers of America in Pittsburgh accuse the American giant Coca-Cola of involvement in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of workers and union leaders at its bottling plants in Colombia andTurkey, as well as questionable practices In India. These two long-standing workers’ rights activists have chosen to dedicate their life to the service of a better...
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Who shot my brother?
Director de ciné, fotografiaProducer
Some phone calls can turn your life upside down. That's what happened to filmmaker German Gutiérrez when he got a call from Colombia informing him there had just been an assassination attempt on his older brother Oscar, a political activist hated by the establishment but adored by the disenfranchised. In this film, German Gutiérrez, who has been living in Montreal for the past thirty years, recounts his quest to find the hired gunmen who tried to kill Oscar, and also to...
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Societies under the influences
Director de cine, fotografia
PRODUCING AGENCY : NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA. Despite the overflowing prisons and billions of dollars spent by governments, drug trafficking is a bigger problem than ever. In an unending spiral, increasingly effective repression only makes drugs scarcer, thus driving up the cost, which in turn increases criminality and makes life less safe for ordinary citizens. After so many years of this war on drugs, many observers are calling for a cease-fire in the hope that legalizing drugs might be...
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