Andrés Baiz Ochoa (born 1975), also known as Andi Baiz, is a

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and screenwriter. As a film director, his first feature was ''

Satanás ''Satanás'' (Spanish for ''Satan'') is a 2007 Colombian film written and directed by Andi Baiz. It is adapted from the novel of the same title by Mario Mendoza Zambrano which is based on the spree killing committed by Campo Elías Delgado tha ...

'', based on the novel of the same name. He is known also for directing the film '' The Hidden Face'' and for the TV series ''

Metástasis ''Metástasis'' is a Colombian telenovela series, a Spanish language remake of the American crime drama ''Breaking Bad'' that transposes the events of the original from the United States to Colombia. It follows the storyline for all five seasons ...

'' and ''

Narcos ''Narcos'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro. Set and filmed in Colombia, seasons 1 and 2 are about Colombian narcoterrorist and drug lord Pablo Escobar, leader ...

''.

Life

Graduated from

New York University Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic, and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch ...

with a major in Film and TV and a minor in Cinema Studies. After graduating he was mentored by French director

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, with whom he produced four horror short films. He then worked for the video production company Centro-Films as producer, director and editor for two years. He also worked as a film critic for ''Loft'' magazine between 2001 and 2004. He also worked in the production department of five feature films: ''

Bringing Out the Dead ''Bringing Out the Dead'' is a 1999 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader, based on the 1998 novel by Joe Connelly. It stars Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore. ...

'', ''

Zoolander ''Zoolander'' is a 2001 American comedy film directed by and starring Ben Stiller. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the '' VH1 Fashion Awards'' televisi ...

'', '' Cremaster 2'', ''

Maria Full of Grace ''Maria Full of Grace'' (Spanish title: ''María, llena eres de gracia'', lit., " Maria, you are full of grace") is a 2004 Spanish-language drama film written and directed by Joshua Marston. The film was a US-Colombia co-production. The story fo ...

'' and '' The Fittest''. His short film ''Hoguera'' (''Bonfire'') was selected to participate in 2007 Cannes Director's Fortnight. Baiz has written and directed five short films, three music videos and one documentary. ''Satanás'' was his debut feature film.

Filmography

Short film Feature film Television

References

External links

* 1975 births Living people Colombian film directors Colombian screenwriters Colombian male screenwriters Colombian film producers Tisch School of the Arts alumni {{Colombia-bio-stub