Ciro Guerra is a Colombian filmmaker and screenwriter. His film "Embrace of the Serpent" (El Abrazo de la Serpiente, 2015) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first film from Colombia to ever be nominated. His previous films, "Los Viajes del Viento" (The Wind Journeys, 2009) and "La Sombra del Caminante" (The Wandering Shadows, 2004) are considered amongst the most important in Colombian cinema history, receiving awards at festivals such as Cannes, San Sebastian, Rotterdam, Mar del Plata, Havana and Toulouse, among many others. His latest film, "Waiting for the Barbarians", an adaptation of Nobel Prize Winner J.M. Coetzee's novel, was nominated for the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival.