Birthday: 1941-12-02 Born in: Tolima, Colombia Biography: Jorge Silva was a Colombian director and cinematographer, known for Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future (1982), Peasants (1975) and The Brickmakers (1972). He died in 1988 while working on the documentary Love, Women and Flowers (1988) with his wife and filmmaking partner Marta Rodríguez.
Known for
Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future
The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.