Mauricio Leiva-Cock

Mauricio Leiva-Cock
Born	Colombia
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	2009–present

Mauricio Leiva-Cock is a Colombian independent narrative filmmaker whose work has won numerous awards and has been seen by audiences worldwide. He is a founding member of the production company Fidelio Films and currently resides in Colombia where he is editing ‘Los Kaotikos’, a short film that he also wrote, directed, and produced and was the project winner of the Colombian Film fund grant.

Early life

Mauricio was born in Bogota, Colombia but was awarded a full tuition scholarship to attend the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia, where he received an undergraduate degree in film. After graduating with honors, Mauricio returned to Colombia where he wrote film criticism for El Tiempo (Colombia’s premiere newspaper), and worked as a camera assistant on various projects. In 2008 Mauricio decided to pursue a Film MFA at Columbia University where he received the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship, and a grant from the Colfuturo fund, a scholarship-loan program designed for excelling Colombian students. While attending graduate school in New York City, Mauricio also worked with Pitchfork Media, where he worked on videos for musical groups such as Sonic Youth, Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, and the National. Since graduating with honors from Columbia University in 2013, Mauricio has continued to make films with Laberinto Producc, Babilla Cine and Fidelio Films.

Awards

Since graduating with honors from Columbia University’s MFA film program, Mauricio’s work has participated in festivals and artistic residences worldwide such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Talent Lab, Script Connect, Buenos Aires Talents, Morelia, Beijing, Biarritz, São Paulo, San Sebastian and Huesca. His first short film “Clankety Clank” won the ‘Best Colombian Short’ award at the Bogota Film Festival, the Specialized Press award at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Lebu, among other awards. His next short film, ‘Café con leche’ won the ShotsTV/Numericable Award at the Biarritz Festival in Latin America.^[1]

Mauricio’s scriptwriting has also won him numerous awards. His feature-length script, ‘Aquí Vivió y Murió Espiritu Perdomo’ was selected for the Cine Qua Non Lab Screenwriting Residence in Morelia, Mexico, the Buenos Aires Talents Development Workshop. the Bolivia Lab Screenwriting Lab in Cochabamba, Bolivia and the Ibermedia Cinefilia Lab in Colombia. His short script ‘Las Ratitas’ was awarded the Hispanic Scholarship Fund ‘McNamara Grant’. In addition, received the Quarterfinalist Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting in 2013, and received the Script Development Award from Promiagnes Colombia in 2014.^[2]

Mauricio’s notable editing skills have helped films such as ‘Mambo Cool’ become the official selection at Mar del Plata, FIDMarseille and IndieLisboa. The Colombian short ‘Portraits’, which he also edited, was a Jury Award winner at Festival del Film Locarno and has played in over 50 international festivals. Of his most recent editing work, ‘Gloom’, was selected to the Festival de Cine de San Sebastian and winner of the Best Mexican Short Award at Guanajuato Film Festival, while ‘Cien Años Más Viejo” won the Colombian Film Fund for Short Documentary Production in 2014. Currently, he is editing a documentary for Caracol Television, and produced by Laberinto Producciones.

Fidelio Films

Mauricio Leiva-Cock is a founding member of the production company Fidelio Films,^[3] a New York City-based independent film production company along with producers David Figueroa García, Mark Raso, and Mauro Mueller in 2010. All four of them met while studying at the MFA program in directing and screenwriting at Columbia University. The company has produced a number of acclaimed short films, winning twice in a row in the Student Academy Awards with Under in 2012^[4] and A World for Raúl in 2013.^[5] In 2014, for the third time in a row, they had a short "Perfidia" in the regional final of the Student Academy Awards. Their first feature film Copenhagen, featuring Gethin Anthony, Bodil Awards winner Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian Armesto, Mille Dinesen, Baard Owe, and Tamzin Merchant^[6] was theatrically released in North America in 2014.

Filmography

“Clankety, Clank” (2010, short film, director, writer, producer, editor)
“One Thousand Cranes" (2010, assistant camera)
"Brand New Day" (2010, short film, assistant camera)
"Grey" (2010, short film, assistant camera)
“A Viagem” (2010, short film, second assistant camera)
"Cafe con leche" (2011, short film, director, writer, producer, editor)
"Ratitas" (2012, short film, writer)
“Portraits” (short film, editor)
"Bite" (2013, short film, director, writer, producer, editor)
“Lea” (2013, short film, editor)
“Mambo Cool” (2013, short film, editor)
“Perfidia” (2013, short film, editor)
“Gloom” (2013, short film, editor)
Copenhagen (2014, feature film, assistant editor, co-producer under Fidelio Films)
“Los Kaotikos” (2015, short film, writer, director, producer, editor)
“Aquí vivió y murió Espíritu Perdomo” (In development, feature film, writer, director, producer)

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