Monday, December 8, 2025
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. EST
The Georgetown Americas Institute and the Center for Media Integrity in the Americas invites you to an exclusive screening of the Colombian documentary film, Después del Frío ("After the Cold”).
Produced by the International Center for Transitional Justice, with support from Sweden and the Kingdom of Norway, the film tells a compelling story about the human costs of war, polarization, injustice, and ultimately reconciliation. It traces the personal journeys of both victims and perpetrators, set against the backdrop of Colombia’s six-decade internal conflict and the 2016 Peace Agreement. Después del Frío is an intimate portrait of lives shattered far from the headlines. It reveals the paradox of peacemaking on a macro level: that it cannot occur until acknowledgment of responsibility, forgiveness, and healing take root at the individual level.
Please join us for an afternoon of powerful storytelling that will begin with opening remarks by Colombian Ambassador Daniel Garcia-Peña, followed by the screening of Después del Frío (in Spanish with English subtitles), and a conversation with the producer, award-winning Colombian journalist and podcaster María Jimena Duzán. A small reception will follow the event.
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María Jimena Duzán is a Colombian journalist and writer. She has worked for several of the country’s most important media outlets, including El Espectador, El Tiempo, and Semana. She has also written for international publications such as El País, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and Marie Claire. She is the author of Death Beat: A Colombian Journalist's Life Inside the Cocaine Wars (1994), Así gobierna Uribe (2004), My Journey to Hell (2010), and Santos: Paradoxes of Peace and Power (2017), among other titles that reflect on Colombia’s political reality. In 2005, she received the Simón Bolívar Award for Journalist of the Year. From 2008 to 2020, she was a columnist for Revista Semana. During that period, María Jimena Duzán directed the political debate program Semana en Vivo, broadcast on the Cablenoticias television channel and later on Semana TV. She also directed the investigative YouTube series Odebrecht and Mafialand. In 2021, she launched a freelance journalism project on YouTube and co-directed and produced, with the International Center for Transitional Justice, the YouTube series Patrones de la Guerra. In September 2021, Duzán launched her daily podcast A Fondo, a Spotify Original.
Daniel García-Peña is ambassador of Colombia to the United States. He is a distinguished Colombian historian and academic with vast experience in peacebuilding, international relations, and journalism. He holds a master's degree in Latin American political studies from the National University of Colombia and a bachelor's degree in political science and history from Belmont Abbey College in the United States.
Denisse Yanovich (moderator) is the managing director of the Georgetown Americas Institute. Prior to joining Georgetown she was the deputy to the president at the Inter-American Dialogue, a leading think tank on Latin America. She also worked at the Embassy of Colombia in Washington, managing their Public Diplomacy program, and Fedesarrollo, an economic policy think tank in Colombia, as a research associate. Yanovich holds a B.S. and M.A. in economics from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá and M.A. in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University College, London.