Paulo Perez

Biography

Paulo Perez is an experienced Colombian cinematographer with more than 25 years of experience working on feature films, documentaries and television series across countries including Colombia, Mexico, India, Tunisia, the United States, France, England and Qatar. His filmmaking style is strongly influenced by his documentary background, often focusing on challenging locations such as forests, jungles, deserts and mountains. His work frequently combines fiction with documentary elements and incorporates the lives and cultures of local communities.

Perez is a co-founder of the Colombian cinematographers' guild ADFC and has also worked as a cinematography lecturer at the International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.

Among his notable projects are the Netflix series Green Frontier, filmed in the Amazon rainforest, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, based on the celebrated novel by Gabriel García Márquez and directed by Alex García López and Laura Mora. He also worked on Amazon Prime Video productions such as The Head of Joaquín Murrieta and News of a Kidnapping, another adaptation of García Márquez's work.

In 2022–2023, Perez served as a cinematographer on the SonyLIV original series The Jengaburu Curse, directed by Nila Madhab Panda and filmed in Odisha, India. His work reflects his interest in visually capturing complex environments and bringing authentic local settings and communities into cinematic storytelling.

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