Cinema with powerful stories for audiences
Emotion is a key ally in all stages of film production, acting as executive producer in national and international projects, covering everything from pre-production to final distribution. We specialise in the creation and management of feature film, short film, fiction and non-fiction series projects.
Our productions
Vienen la grietas
Director: Daniel Mateo Vallejo
Year 2022
Synopsis: Keisi wakes up one morning obsessed with escaping into the thicket of nature that has been haunting her lately. A photograph as a fantasy; the art gallery in which it is exhibited as a nightmare.
Role of emotion: Associated production
Todos los días
Director: David Rendón Peláez
Year 2023
Synopsis: Ramiro is fired from the job he has worked at for most of his life. In the midst of his newfound, lonely freedom, he meets three unemployed men like him who get together to kill time and keep each other company while fantasizing about getting revenge on their former employers and seeking, one small triumph at a time, to be happy. Every day, every day.
Role of emotion: Co-production
El rastro del agua
Director: Anderson Ascanio
Year 2023
Synopsis: A woman clings to her past in her daily life, between her job and customs she tries not to forget without knowing if she will recover the place she has already lost.
Role of emotion: Co-production
Distancia
Director: Dea María Pompa
Year 2024
Synopsis: A woman in the midst of a divorce decides to sell her house in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis. With the help of her neighbor, a real estate broker, they find a buyer. But, to carry out the sale, the woman needs the signature of her ex-husband, the divorce decree, or a power of attorney granted to her by her ex; and all these documents are being processed in another city. In the midst of total quarantine, the woman has no other choice but to knock on the door of her neighbors, with whom she had never established a social bond, to get the power of attorney from the ex from across the border and finalize the sale of the house. In this way, she gets involved, in addition to the insistent broker, with the trusting doorman, with a dark ex-military man with a questionable past and with the neighbor across the street younger than her, who provokes unexpected erotic sensations in her and develops a transformative connection with her. Her only way out is to break the confinement, putting the safety of the entire neighborhood at risk.
Role of emotion: Co-production
Las pirañas
Director: Anderson Ascanio
Year 2020
Synopsis: Juan Pablo lives in a dysfunctional family from which he feels alienated. His parents make a living from shady business dealings for which he is forced to be a messenger. Richard, his sister Jessica's boyfriend, assigns him the bass in a garage band that Juan Pablo supports while a need reverberates inside him.
Role of emotion: Associated Production
Projects
in development
Written by José Guarnizo, this true crime series is inspired by one of the most shocking and terrifying crimes that shook Medellín in 2010.
Doña María is finally the centre of attention in her neighbourhood when the Virgin Mary appears at her house. However, her position is threatened when the news announces that it will record the apparition: Will everything be perfect? Will the Virgin Mary be seen? Will she get rid of Lucía, the neighbour with Down syndrome?
Creative triad
When an investigative journalist, a script doctor and a creative producer with audiences in mind come together, stories come to life with power and vision.
Lina Pérez Arenas
Creative producer with experience in programming and distribution of audiovisual content.
José Guarnizo
Journalist and Master in Literary Creation from Pompeu Fabra University.
Verónica Escobar
Master of Philosophy in scriptwriting and librettos for film, television and multimedia.
Lina Pérez Arenas
Creative production company with experience in programming and distribution of audiovisual content in US Hispanic and Latin America. She worked as a programming coordinator at Teleantioquia and as an acquisitions consultant for Caracol Internacional and Globosat. Since 2014, she founded Emotion, a Colombian content distribution company for OTT, VOD, and broadcast television, and participates as a screenwriter on major development projects, contributing her creative perspective from the audiovisual industry landscape to write proposals more focused on international markets and global audiences.
José Guarnizo
Journalist and Master in Literary Creation from Pompeu Fabra University. Winner of the King of Spain International Journalism Award (2011 and 2020), the IAPA Journalism Excellence Award (2020), the Simón Bolívar Award four times (2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021), the Fetisov Journalism Award (2021, for collective work) and a finalist for the Gabo Award (in 2019, for collective work), among other recognitions. He is the author of non-fiction books, including The Black Widow, a text that was brought to television by RTI and Televisa.
Verónica Escobar
Master of Philosophy in scriptwriting and librettos for film, television and multimedia, with a specialty in fiction from the University of Bergen, Norway. Winner of the Film Development Fund Stimulus Award for Best Comedy Screenplay in 2019 and recently nominated for the most important award in Colombian television, the India Catalina, in the category Best Script for a Telenovela, Series or Miniserieswith the fiction series Nuestra Tierra, produced by Teleantioquia (2022).
“Working with Emotion allowed us to design a precise festival strategy for our film UNO. Thanks to their advice and support, we participated strategically in Content Américas and we strengthened our relationship with key festivals for our film. The curation we carried out together helped us to better focus our route, achieving outstanding selections in the Latino and Native American Film Festival, Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival and the Premios Platino shortlist”
Laura Franco
Clover Studios
“Emotion distributes all the films that our production house has made: Amalia, Destinos, Huella and Camino and recently the Titan “Todos los Días” started as a project…. that after several years of trying to make it possible, we presented it to Emotion and we got them to join with a 30% participation, which allowed not only the closing of financing but also to open a path of possibilities for the short that was a Panorama selection at FICCI, at Bogoshorts and the collaboration found with Lina Pérez, the producer, thanks to it was timely and always thinking about the best route for our short film”
Ana Sofía Osorio
Cine de Amigos
“Todos los Días” is a project that we had been trying to do for several years and when we decided to self-manage, it was key to partner with Emotion, who joined in co-production with a 30% stake. This not only allowed us to close the financing, but also opened up new opportunities for the short film, which was selected at Bogoshorts and the Miradas Festival. Lina Pérez's support was key and generous, always with a strategic vision and focused on the best route for our short film.”
David Rendón
Director “Todos los Días”
Production values
Green Energy, Powerful Stories
100% of our offices are powered by renewable energy
Female Talent in Action
More than 80% of our team are women
Cinema that Breathes
Our projects include carbon offsetting
Diversity that brings the screen to life
Diversity in casting and crew and in the characters of our stories
We believe in local young talent
Linking interns to our projects, supporting university projects and supporting emerging talent in the national film industry