Braulio Jatar

Born and raised in Venezuela where he began his career as a visual journalist, documenting mainly social issues and violent protests. He has successfully directed, shot and produced over 50 short pieces about the Venezuelan crisis amassing millions of views. Since then he has furthered his studies in documentary filmmaking in New York City. Subsequently, he directed, produced and shot the documentary short about the 2017 Venezuelan protests titled "Where Chaos Reigns" (co-directed with Anaïs Michel), which has received HBO’s Honorable mention at the Miami International Festival, won the Golden Gate Award for best documentary short at the San Francisco International Film festival as well as the Soapbox Award in Denmark’s Odense Film Festival. 

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Braulio since then has documented the massive exodus of Venezuelan migrants through the Colombian border and is currently in production of a feature documentary titled "Cúcuta" ,also with co-director Anaïs Michel, that was recently chosen for the Only In New York development program from Doc NYC.