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Retrato de Geo Aragón, storyteller, director, productor y postproductor

Some editors cut. Geo Aragón tells. With more than 20 years of experience, his name stands behind stories that millions of people could not stop watching: on the television that defined a country, on the platforms the whole planet now watches, and on the screens that fit in a pocket.

His path began editing short-form shows; from there he moved into long form, the series and telenovelas of Colombian prime time, watched by millions, and later into producing content for the business figures with the largest audiences in the world. He has supervised teams of more than 40 people and thousands of pieces for broadcast and streaming, and his work has played on social media, television, radio, webinars, pay TV and live events. If it has a screen or a speaker, one of his stories has probably already passed through it.

His technique

Those who have watched him work all describe the same thing: a pulse. His technique fits in one sentence, the story leads, and it shows in every cut: each decision answers what the viewer must feel, and at exactly which second. For Geo, editing is writing with images: structure, rhythm, breath and impact; and directing is creating the moment in which emotion actually happens, instead of acting it. That is why his work is recognizable without seeing the credits: a scene of his does not just look good. It stays with you.

Burbank: going for more

That eye was no accident. In 2007 he left Bogotá for Burbank, California, to study Film & TV Post & Production at Video Symphony, one of Hollywood's most important post-production schools, on the level of the New York Film Academy, but devoted to a single craft, and the world's number-one Avid training center. He did not cross a continent to learn buttons or keyboard shortcuts: he went looking for creative horizons, to understand storytelling beyond the edit, to discover how an emotion is built and how a story becomes an experience. He came back with a conviction that still defines him: technique can be learned; judgment is conquered.

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The pioneer

Back in Colombia, he did what no one had done. In 2009, when “streaming” was still a strange word, he founded and directed Dominio G: the country's first online streaming television channel, created for the LGBT+H audience. Without permission and without a map, the channel made the news in El Tiempo, Caracol Radio and the EFE agency, and in 2010 it won five international awards. Because being a pioneer is not about arriving first: it is about building what does not yet exist and holding it up until the world understands it.

Companies I have worked with
Sony Pictures TelevisionWarner Bros. DiscoveryNorwegian Cruise LineCMO ProduccionesFox TelecolombiaRCN StudiosGrant Cardone EnterprisesCardone VenturesHogarth WorldwideValuetainmentBursor & FisherCineAlta ProduccionesARTV ProduccionesSony Pictures TelevisionWarner Bros. DiscoveryNorwegian Cruise LineCMO ProduccionesFox TelecolombiaRCN StudiosGrant Cardone EnterprisesCardone VenturesHogarth WorldwideValuetainmentBursor & FisherCineAlta ProduccionesARTV Producciones
Formats

From prime time to the phone screen: Geo has told stories in every format where content lives today.

Linear televisionStreaming platformsSocial mediaAdvertising & adsFilmShort formLong formTelenovelas & seriesReality showsTalk showsPromos & trailersBranded content
Awards
Best Director
Gloss Awards · Chile · 2010 · For Dominio G
Best LGBT Television Channel
Gloss Awards · Chile · 2010 · Dominio G
Best TV Program
Gloss Awards · Chile · 2010 · Dominio G
Best Director
Theatron Awards · Colombia · 2010 · For Dominio G
Best LGBT Media Outlet
Theatron Awards · Colombia · 2010 · Dominio G
Best Editing
India Catalina Awards · 2017 · La Niña · As a team with Diego Narciso
Press

When he launched Dominio G, national and international press told the story. These are the pieces that recorded it:

EL TIEMPO
August 30, 2009 · By Luz Adriana Velasco

“An LGBT television channel is already on air on the internet, it is called 'Dominio G'”

READ THE STORY →
AGENCIA EFE
August 13, 2009 · Via Primera Hora, Puerto Rico

“First Colombian internet TV channel for homosexuals”

READ THE STORY →
CARACOL RADIO
August 13, 2009 · 10AM Hoy por hoy

“First television channel aimed at the homosexual community begins broadcasting online. Geo Aragón, director”

LISTEN TO THE STORY →