Harold Trompetero Saray was born in Bogotá in 1971.
He is a social communicator from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and a publicist from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, he studied filmmaking in Cuba, Spain and France.
He worked as Creative Director for three years at Leo Burnett Agency in Bogota.
He has directed series and soap operas Cartas a Harrison and Amor a mil, as well as commercials, music videos and video art productions.
His first feature film was Diástole y sístole, los movimientos del corazón, awarded at the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival in 2000.
A remote and lonely hotel holds a dark secret. La Patasola, a vengeful being marked by the loss of her son and her leg, seeks to punish the unfaithful. Rodrigo, an investigator, and Susana, his young lover, arrive at the hotel under the pretext of investigating an unsolved disappearance, but they will soon discover that they are locked in a deadly trap. La Patasola, thirsty for revenge, will unleash all her fury against the infidels and make them pay the price for their deceit, transforming their visit into a nightmare with no escape.
The paths of a couple who'd dated for more than a decade diverge when Juan decides he wants to raise a family and Elizabeth focuses on her career.
In a family party that is respected, good music, fun, love, drinks and why not, even a dead person should never be lacking. The Matayana family will experience a rumba on the birthday of the head of the household, Doña Matilde, until they realize that an inheritance is at stake.
Arturo is a 45-year-old tinterillo with a legal advisory office. One day Arturo meets Simon, a 30-year-old man who has the possibility of inheriting a large fortune. The problem ?: Simon has no right to inheritance because it is from a distant family member and the deceased did not leave a will. Arturo will ally himself with Antonia, an accountant with whom she shares an office, in order to claim the inheritance applying the most unexpected techniques, tactics and tricks.
A young woman living on a Caribbean island is searching for her father who is lost at sea. When her estranged family come to help, she must confront their dark past and this new family she never expected to embrace.
An Argentinean anthropologist makes an amusing analysis of the Colombian society taking the spectator by graceful situations in which are seen personages of our country being very "OriYinales". Starring Julian Arango, Paola Turbay, Diego Trujillo among others, this film is a single laugh.
While abroad Colombians are the bad guys, in Colombia foreigners are the kings. And Vigo, a Swede who arrives to Colombia, will be no exception: he will be received as a prodigal son. He will soon discover that even with so much human warmth, in the country of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, magical realism is lived in the midst of chaos, impetus and thoughtlessness, which between tears and laughter blurs the fine line between good and evil.
Amparo, an enigmatic woman, arrives at a funeral home offering a large sum of money for the body of the beautiful Lucia to be cremated quickly and without formalities. Ancizar and Oviedo, owners of the place, decide to reject the tempting offer, however, when Amparo returns, the undertakers discover that the corpse has disappeared and are forced to give her the chest with the ashes of Ancizar's deceased father. She pays and they all call it a day. What the pair of morticians don't know is that it will be the worst business of their lives.