Samuel Castro is a colombian film critic and writer born in Medellín in 1979. Author of the business novel "A la velocidad del byte", film critic for the newspaper El Colombiano. First colombian member of the Online Film Critics Society. Member in the editorial board of the Kinetoscopio magazine, the most important and oldest film magazine in Colombia. “En el cine” podcast codirector and cohost. Founder and creative director of the company's content and media events Ideas Lúcidas. Winner in 2014 of the scholarship García Márquez Cultural Journalism at the Gabo Foundation. Programming Advisory for Santa Fe de Antioquia Film Festival. 2025 Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award for Criticism. Writes in Twitter under the nickname @samuelescritor. Works on his second novel.