La Colmena is a production company founded by Diana Lowis in 2014 with the purpose of developing, producing, and distributing audiovisual content from diverse perspectives, styles, genres, and formats, always striving for high artistic and technical quality.
The company, based in Barranquilla, Colombia, focuses its efforts on becoming a growth platform for filmmakers and directors capable of imbuing their work with a fresh, critical, and unique perspective, thereby stimulating and strengthening regional and independent audiovisual creation.
Diana Lowis, creative director of LA COLMENA, has worked as producer for several productions, some of which have received international acclaim. In the film world, the following films by Roberto Flores Prieto stand out: CHASING FIREFLIES (2013) —Award for Best Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography, and Best actor at the Gramado Film Festival, Brazil, and Best Actor Performance and Cinematography at the Huelva Film Festival; and PINK NOISE (2014) —Best Actress Award at the Huelva Film Festival, and Best Director at the Cartagena de Indias Film Festival. In the field of television: the fiction series BEFORE THE PARTY (2016); MEN OF GOD (2021) (and for which Diana was also screenwriter) —Best Television Series Award at the Mykonos International Film Festival (Greece), Best Television Pilot at the Panama Film Festival, and Special Jury Prize at the Accolade Competition (USA); and AS FAR AS YOU CAN (2024), of which Diana was part also as screenwriter and cocreator.
In 2019 Diana produced from LA COLMENA the documentary BURNING LAND, by director Juan Camilo Olmos Feris —world premiere at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), Best Documentary Short Award at the La Havana Film Festival, and at "El Perro que ladra" in Paris. Also included is the fictional TV series HOTEL SWEET HOTEL (2022), winner of the production fund from the Ministry of Information and Communications of Colombia, MINTIC.
At the moment, LA COLMENA develops the feature-length projects DON QUIXOTE DOES NOT LIVE HERE ANYMORE and JUMPING INTO THE VOID written and directed by Diana Lowis, both winners of the Colombian Film Development Fund (FDC) screenplay grant, and selected by screenwriting residencies such as the Plume and Pellicule from Switzerland, the Cine Qua Non Lab from Mexico, and the Algo en Común Ibearo-American Screenplay Residency or the Bogotá Audiovisual Market from Colombia. The company is also producing the feature-length documentary THE EXPERIMENTAL.