London — Bogotá
Bardo/Openvizor produces documentary and fiction across borders — developing projects in Colombia, the UK, and beyond, while giving Colombian stories, landscapes, and collaborators a route to international festivals and audiences.
Our work has premiered at Sundance, Cannes (Directors' Fortnight), and Rotterdam (IFFR), with additional premieres at WOMEX and the Festival de Cine de Cartagena.

Writer · Director · Producer
A Colombian screenwriter, director and producer, and showrunner of the Netflix horror series My Encounter with Evil (2022). His feature documentary Sufi, Saint & Swinger premiered at WOMEX, and his short Coqué premiered at the Festival de Cine de Cartagena. He wrote and directed episodes of the Colombian series El Man es Germán, and his feature Feliza is currently in post-production.

Producer
Founder and director of the London-based arts organisation Openvizor, Abbas has produced documentary and fiction projects that premiered at Sundance, Cannes, and Rotterdam (IFFR) — including Alejandro Jodorowsky's Endless Poetry, Chuck Norris vs. Communism, and Ballad of Exiles: Yilmaz Güney. His current work spans projects in Colombia, Peru, Turkey, Bangladesh, the UK, and the US.
Colombia gives us coastline, desert, cloud forest, and city within a single day's drive — and a generation of technicians, actors, and crews trained on a wave of international productions. Filming in Colombia lets us tell stories with real specificity, rather than standing in for somewhere else.
It is also a place which allows financing to flow easily through its accessible and attractive tax and cash rebate systems. To learn more, please contact us.

London
United Kingdom
Bogotá
Colombia