Jacques Toulemonde

Jacques Toulemonde

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Jacques Toulemonde: Author of his own projects, he was also co-writer with Ciro Guerra of El abrazo de la serpiente, the first Colombian film to be nominated for an Oscar. Parallel to his film experience, he has written several short stories and the unpublished novel Diatriba de un Idiota.

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Embrace of the Serpent 2015 (7.693)

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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Birds of Passage 2018 (7.311)

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
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Crime Diaries: The Celebrity Stylist 2023 (6.049)

When an up-and-coming stylist is found stabbed to death in his home, a young detective is given 20 days to solve the case. Inspired by true events.