// Extramural Artist
// Actress and Cinematographer
// September 2024
She studied acting at the Laboratory School of Dramatic Body Expression in Barcelona; Cinematographic Direction at the Barcelona Film School and obtained a postgraduate diploma in Culture of Peace at the Autonomous University of Barcelona; as well as a postgraduate in New Migrations and Interculturality at the same university and a further graduate degree in Conflict Resolution at the Javeriana University of Bogotá, Colombia. Salma is a Family Constellation Therapist, trained at the María Angels Herrero School of Barcelona.
In her work she seeks to find diverse ways of expressing emotions, thoughts and experiences, where bodily, manual and artistic strategies emerge. In them the social, the spiritual, the cultural, the relational and the therapeutic come together as a form of personal and collective transformation. Becoming a tool and at the same time a bridge through which to travel and manage reality aimed at making possible other ways of relating in the joint creation of a new, less violent reality.
As an actress she has participated in different theatrical works, in film and television, such as “Querido Fidel” Italia 2022, “Frida Kahlo” Barcelona 2013, “Ángela Colombia 2019. As a Filmmaker she has written several scripts for film and directed several shorts. Her Opera First “Angela” has been in cinemas in several cities in Colombia in 2021 and won awards at International Film Festivals such as Ischia-Italy 2019 in its world premiere; Ibiza -Spain with the audience award; in Guayaquil as best director, best script and best sound and press award at the Mérida and Yucatán Festival, Mexico. Currently the film is on a tour called “Ángela por los territories” in order to generate dialogues regarding the prevention and eradication of violence against women and as an alternative to conventional distribution, taking the cinema and the film to places where people don't have access to a movie theater. Socially and therapeutically, it has helped people and groups to navigate traumas, pain and grief focused on personal and self-development.
Extramural Residence El Boga
ExpressArt
As part of her residency project, she will continue to share ways of expression and personal and community healing that allow people to channel emotions, elaborate memory, and tell their own stories from a new and better understanding. This process allows us to open the way to human beings who are more connected to themselves and to a better relationship with their environment, with others, with their sociocultural reality and with nature and its resources. Highlighting the importance of artistic expressions and comprehensive health as multidimensional beings and working together as social beings.
Likewise, Salma is interested in searching for economic, human and artistic resources in the region that can lead to the recording of part of a film in Mompox and its surroundings, as an active participation of the territory in a collective creation of perennial material that can represent and motivate to continue investigating other ways of being and relating.
Contact
@salmatafur
IMDB Salma Tafur
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