Lina Dorado (born April 2, 1975) is a contemporary artist and filmmaker based in New York City noted for her multimedia work and travel photography, Lina Dorado has authored two books in bilingual editions: Doble Vista / Second Sight (Arte Dos Gráfico-Editores) and Drawing Only, Solo Dibujo (Villegas Editores) alongside her long-term collaborator: Luis Cantillo. Their book Doble Vista / Second Sight written by Dorado and photographs by both was acquired by the New York Public Library Museum of Modern Art in New York MOMA and the Whitney Museum for their Artists' Books Collection. In August 2018 her first feature film Pelucas y Rokanrol was theatrically released in Colombia, the film was directed by Mario Duarte and written by Mario Duarte and Lina Dorado .
Early life and education
Born in Bogotá she attended a screenwriting seminar at 16 years old with the writer and producer Juana Uribe and landed a job writing for television as part of the creative writing team behind the TV series "De Pies a Cabeza", that went on to write many T.V hits including Colombia's Betty la Fea ( Now the American comedy-drama television series Ugly Betty).
Dorado entered the B.A program in Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where she was awarded for three consecutive terms the academic recognition matricula de honor (gaining top marks in her class with the right to free registration the following year). Dorado then moved to London earning a BA(Hons.) degree in Fine Arts specialized in Film and Video at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
With a First Class Honours degree from Central Saint Martins, Dorado applied to the graduate film program at Columbia University in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2006 earning an MFA in film directing.
Filmmaking
After publishing two books and widely exhibiting her art work, she concentrated on her film work for which she is best known: She directed 2 AM, Two Around The Mountain (2005), premiered in New York at the Brooklyn Museum her first feature documentary: Dalai Lama, Colombia. Backstage previewed in New York city at the Maysles Institute in March of 09 and in the Tibet Center in DUMBO. Dorado has acted as a story editing advisor for films such as: Gogol Bordello Non-Stop (2008), Directed by Margarita Jimeno, and Abraham-Obama (2009) Directed by Kevin Chapados.In April 2009 Dorado traveled to India where she shot and directed a series of shorts about Tibetan Communities in exile, documenting the program of the Namgyal Monastery "The Heart of Tibet in Exile", organized by the Monastery of the 14th Dalai Lama.
As a music video film director she collaborated with musician and actor Mario Duarte Mario Duarte and his rock band La Derecha La Derecha, she wrote and directed a video titled The Specialist and the Eye". for their song "El Puñal". As of November 2012, the video had surpassed the one million views on YouTube. and the song was nominated as best rock alternative song of the year 2012 by the Colombian music magazine Shock
In August 2018 her first feature film Pelucas y Rokanrol had a theatrical release in cinemas in diverse cities of Colombia, the film was directed by Mario Duarte and written by Mario Duarte and Lina Dorado .
Short films
In 2012, Dorado directed a short documentary video about the Abbot Investiture of Tibetan Buddhist monk and photographer [Nicholas Vreeland]] commissioned by the Tibet Center This is a small document of an event of historic importance since Vreeland is the first Westerner appointed abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery
Personal life
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, she is the daughter of actor and screenwriter Humberto Dorado and painter Maria Moran. She worked alongside contemporary artist Luis Cantillo for over ten years they claim to "continue to comment and participate in each others endeavors" but each of them currently pursues their own individual work while admitting that their career "continues to be informed and influenced by their extraordinary artistic collaboration". Dorado lives in New York city with her long-term partner, whom she married in 2011.