Patrik Mosquera is a filmmaker born in Bogotá, Colombia. He completed a diploma in New Media Production at the Vancouver Film School and received a bachelor’s degree in engineering, with a minor degree in history. He worked for the Canadian franchise Much Music after his graduation. In 2006, he started working with Señal Colombia, the country’s most prominent public, cultural, and educational television channel, where he produced documentary segments on various topics. By 2009, he directed the episodes of “Festivaliando”. In 2014, his production “Invisibles” got a grant from Señal Colombia, and later on, the documentary series was nominated for an India Catalina Award in the Best Social Inclusion Series Category.
Patrik has an independent production company, Kuthul Media. His endeavours are in a couple of projects related to stories of Afro-descendants. One is Ese Pelo Tuyo, a transmedia documentary showcasing Black women’s hair stories from different parts of the African diaspora. In doing so, the documentary has sparked a vivid discussion that involves issues beyond hairstyling and aesthetics. In 2019, EPT was chosen by the American Film Showcase as one of the twelve worldwide winners of the Storytelling for Social Change Workshop held at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. In 2021, The US Embassy in Bogotá awarded Patrik Mosquera a grant to create content in Oakland, California, for Ese Pelo Tuyo to expand the documentary’s narrative to other geographies where the African diaspora has a significant presence. Currently, he is collaborating with Ese Pelo Tuyo in the PhD research project on Black hair entrepreneurship and antiracism in Colombia at the University of Cambridge. Moreover, he seeks to expand EPT’s narrative into live spaces with video installation and photo-expo integrated with podcast interviews.
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Global Racisms Institute for Social Transformation 