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Carlos Bido was born in 1967. Raised in the Dominican Republic, he is the third of 5 children. As a young man he became passionate about movies and dreamed of becoming a film director. But with not film schools in Santo Domingo, he settled for a bachelors degree in communications. At the age of 22 he started working as a reporter and graphic designer for a local newspaper. He moved to California in 1992 to pursue a filmmaking career. But life in the US proved to be not as easy as he thought it would be. The first year he worked as a lab technician earning $8 an hour. !n 1993 he got a head start working for a Spanish-language advertising agency in Ventura County, where he got his first chance to directing TV commercials for local advertisers. But he saw a business opportunity in the advertising industry and started a weekly radio show at Radio La Mexicana, and launched a Spanish-language magazine. He married in 1994 and a year later moved to Colorado, a better place to raise his family. It was another painful beginning. But soon he found a job on radio as a Baseball play-by- play announcer for the Colorado Rockies. In 1997 he launched two other publications. For the next several years he found financial stability in the publishing industry.

Despite his successful publishing business and new-found career as a sportscaster, Carlos still felt strongly about pursuing his dream of directing films. In 2002 he financed and directed his first movie, ILLEGAL WITNESS. But that was a decision that almost bankrupted his family. His investment in the film was not recuperating fast enough, and his publishing business stalled. In 2006 he decided to sell his publications and quit his radio broadcasting job with the Colorado Rockies to start a Spanish-language video production company. That proved to be another setback. With the economy collapsing a year later, his business took a hit before it even started. He started to question his business judgement, but his passion for the art kept him trying, Things started to change in 2007. One morning, while thinking about new ways to promote his business, he got a phone call from a producer who has seen his movie ILLEGAL WITNESS. He wanted Carlos to direct his film VIAJEROS (TRAVELERS). That was a great break. Since that time Carlos has directed many other film projects including national TV spots, a TV series and two other films, NO WARNING, and most recently FINDING HOPE. He has also found a new passion as a vocal advocate for human rights and justice. In 2012 he launched INFORMANTE POST an investigative news blog reporting political corruption, corporate wrongdoing, crime, and miscarriage of justice.