Enrique Pedráza-Botero

Enrique Pedráza-Botero is a Colombian filmmaker and visual artist whose work examines how systems of power, technology, and capital shape everyday life, social behavior, and collective imagination. He currently leads the Documentary Film in the Public Interest initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, looking at the future of documentary and civic storytelling. His work at Harvard focuses on the changing role of nonfiction media within the contemporary information environment, with particular attention to digital video, platform distribution, and the creator economy.

Previously, Pedráza-Botero spent six years at Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program, where he led international strategy, directed creative labs, and supported hundreds of nonfiction filmmakers worldwide. His films have premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films, AFI Fest, and True/False, and have screened at MoMA, Film at Lincoln Center, and the Museum of the Moving Image. His films include Alpha Kings, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Social Commentary at AFI Fest and acquired by The New Yorker, and No se ve desde acá (You Can’t See It From Here), winner of Best Documentary Short at Palm Springs ShortFest and now available nationwide on PBS and Reel South.

His current documentary series, S.E.C.T.O.R. B, investigates how border security infrastructures are transforming immigrant communities across the United States. Combining archival research, social media video, and spatial analysis, the project examines how surveillance technologies, defense contractors, detention expansion, recruitment efforts, and public-private security partnerships extend the logic of the border beyond its geographic boundaries, reorganizing the spaces, behaviors, and forms of visibility that structure everyday public life.

This bio reflects the fellow’s work and affiliations as of their fellowship year.

• The “Alpha Kings” Practicing Financial Domination Online: A documentary short following a group of friends in suburban Texas who make their living in the world of “findom” on OnlyFans, exploring online masculinity, performance, and the creator economy. Streaming on The New Yorker and Vimeo Staff Picks.
• No se ve desde acá (You Can’t See It From Here): A documentary short streaming on PBS that explores Miami’s immigrant communities and the pursuit of the American Dream through archival material and observational scenes examining belonging, wealth, and border politics.
• Documentary Film in the Public Interest: A research initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center that advances research, innovation, and field-building at the intersection of documentary, nonfiction media, and the evolving information environment.