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Ángela Carabalí

Directing

Ángela Carabalí

ES cinema · 5 credits

Birthplace

Colombia

Ángela Carabalí is an Afro-Colombian documentary filmmaker and university professor with an honorary master’s degree in Documentary Film and a master’s degree in Documentary Photography. I Dreamed His Name (2026) is her first feature film; it was awarded Best National Feature Film at the Cali International Film Festival (FICCALI), received a Special Jury Mention at the Hot Docs Festival and the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and won Best Ibero-American Feature Film at the Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival. She served as assistant director on Ser o No Ser (2018) by director Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza, and was production manager on A Mother (2022) by director Diógenes Cuevas. She is the director, screenwriter, and co-producer of the internationally acclaimed interactive documentary Pregoneros de Medellín (2014). She is a fellow of the Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, American Film Showcase, and Solutions Storytelling Project:LATAM, where she created the short documentary The Echo (2025).

Known for

Filmography

Antes que se nuble poster

Antes que se nuble

ESNot rated

Assistant Editor

I Dreamed His Name poster

I Dreamed His Name

ES · 2026Not rated

Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Executive Producer

We All Are Cuchas poster

We All Are Cuchas

ES · 2026Not rated

Story Supervisor

El eco poster

El eco

ES · 2025Not rated

Director, Editor

A Mother poster

A Mother

ES · 20228.0

Production Manager