Miguel Escobar Silva
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
Miguel A. Escobar Silva, born November 16th, 1984, is a Colombian creative producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur, based in Galway, Ireland.
Escobar Silva was the first Colombian emerging producer awarded the Government of Ireland International Education Scholarship to pursue a film project-based master's in creative production & screen finance while developing his company at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology IADT / The National Film School (2019-2020).
He has built his career step-by-step in the filmmaking industry, from Colombia to the U.S. to Brazil and Ireland, acquiring fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. He majored in film production and direction at Politecnico Gran Colombiano in Bogota (2008), graduating with a scholarship of excellence. Then he moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, on a fellowship to study screenwriting for films and TV at Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation FAAP (2011).
In 2008, Escobar Silva started his career as the 1st assistant director in 'One For Another' a Brazilian short film. Later he worked as a key set production assistant at FoxTelecolombia Studios in the series 'El Capo' (2012) and the soap opera 'La Traicionera' (2012). Over the next two years, Escobar Silva spent his time writing and shooting, as 1st AD, dozens of commercials for prominent companies, contributing to the rise of Portal Media to become one of the most promising advertising production houses in Colombia. In 2013, he was the executive producer of the Brazilian short film 'The Way You Touch Me'. From 2014 to 2019, he became AD for international series and movies such as 'Narcos' (2015), 'Jungle' (2016), '492' (2016) and 'On Wheels' (2016) and as 1st AD at three of the top emerging production houses in Colombia: Milagrosa, Crack, and Monarca, on advertising campaigns and music videos.
With 13+ years of experience in production services, accomplishing more than a thousand call sheets, and working across diverse media formats and travels to grow his academic career, visual storytelling has significantly influenced Escobar Silva as a filmmaker and entrepreneur. He has started four businesses in parallel to his work in the various cities he has lived. He has stated that he believes technology and aesthetics have had an even more significant influence on him as an artist than the film itself.
Escobar Silva founded Mekkato [high-potential start-up], a creative production studio and digital technologies lab encouraging authentic story-makers to capture audiences' imaginations globally. A company in the CreaTech sector focused on creating original content capable of exponentially reaching international audiences and developing digital technologies like cloud-based software services for the entertainment industry.
Nowadays, he is developing 'Blinding Truth', a Drama-Thriller feature film with a political and psychological plot. 'Blinding Truth' follows the story of Martina, an aspiring Canadian journalist who travels to Colombia to report on a cyberterrorism case of a hacker blackmailing a transnational corporation. She discovers that the transnational is not telling the whole truth, finding herself the target of a major conspiracy when the corporation uses its vast economic power to bury the investigation and its influence on the government to discredit her.
Blinding Truth is a film about a woman who endures intense professional self-demanding and wrongful dismissal, so she sacrifices everything to achieve one glorious moment of absolute journalistic integrity. While trying to expose the truth, she faces a decision that will change the rest of her life, suggesting that absolute revelation requires absolute sacrifice.
Escobar Silva was the first Colombian emerging producer awarded the Government of Ireland International Education Scholarship to pursue a film project-based master's in creative production & screen finance while developing his company at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology IADT / The National Film School (2019-2020).
He has built his career step-by-step in the filmmaking industry, from Colombia to the U.S. to Brazil and Ireland, acquiring fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. He majored in film production and direction at Politecnico Gran Colombiano in Bogota (2008), graduating with a scholarship of excellence. Then he moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, on a fellowship to study screenwriting for films and TV at Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation FAAP (2011).
In 2008, Escobar Silva started his career as the 1st assistant director in 'One For Another' a Brazilian short film. Later he worked as a key set production assistant at FoxTelecolombia Studios in the series 'El Capo' (2012) and the soap opera 'La Traicionera' (2012). Over the next two years, Escobar Silva spent his time writing and shooting, as 1st AD, dozens of commercials for prominent companies, contributing to the rise of Portal Media to become one of the most promising advertising production houses in Colombia. In 2013, he was the executive producer of the Brazilian short film 'The Way You Touch Me'. From 2014 to 2019, he became AD for international series and movies such as 'Narcos' (2015), 'Jungle' (2016), '492' (2016) and 'On Wheels' (2016) and as 1st AD at three of the top emerging production houses in Colombia: Milagrosa, Crack, and Monarca, on advertising campaigns and music videos.
With 13+ years of experience in production services, accomplishing more than a thousand call sheets, and working across diverse media formats and travels to grow his academic career, visual storytelling has significantly influenced Escobar Silva as a filmmaker and entrepreneur. He has started four businesses in parallel to his work in the various cities he has lived. He has stated that he believes technology and aesthetics have had an even more significant influence on him as an artist than the film itself.
Escobar Silva founded Mekkato [high-potential start-up], a creative production studio and digital technologies lab encouraging authentic story-makers to capture audiences' imaginations globally. A company in the CreaTech sector focused on creating original content capable of exponentially reaching international audiences and developing digital technologies like cloud-based software services for the entertainment industry.
Nowadays, he is developing 'Blinding Truth', a Drama-Thriller feature film with a political and psychological plot. 'Blinding Truth' follows the story of Martina, an aspiring Canadian journalist who travels to Colombia to report on a cyberterrorism case of a hacker blackmailing a transnational corporation. She discovers that the transnational is not telling the whole truth, finding herself the target of a major conspiracy when the corporation uses its vast economic power to bury the investigation and its influence on the government to discredit her.
Blinding Truth is a film about a woman who endures intense professional self-demanding and wrongful dismissal, so she sacrifices everything to achieve one glorious moment of absolute journalistic integrity. While trying to expose the truth, she faces a decision that will change the rest of her life, suggesting that absolute revelation requires absolute sacrifice.
