Crew
Intercultural Team
Christian Nazareno, La Chiquita, Esmeraldas, Ecuador… camera & reflection.
Christian Obando, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador… distribution.
Damián “Una Voz” Gaitan, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador… hip-hop.
Daniel Andrade, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador… production of the DCP.
Dario Herrera, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador… color.
Dixon Cuji, Sarayaku, Pastaza, Ecuador… camera.
Equipo de San Clemente, Imbabura, Ecuador… drone.
Eriberto Gualinga, Sarayaku, Pastaza, Ecuador… director & camera.
Fidel Minda, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador… original music.
Gaby Cuajivoy, Guadualito, Esmeraldas, Ecuador… camera & reflection.
Juan Carlos Donoso, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador… postproduction coordinator & camera.
Juli Hazlewood, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA… general producer & camera.
La Chiquita Afro-descendant students, La Chiquita, Esmeraldas, Ecuador… cameras.
Guadualito Indigenous Awá students, Guadualito, Esmeraldas, Ecuador… cameras.
Lucia Galarza, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador… postproduction coordinator & script assistant.
Matías Canales, Santiago, Provincia, Region, Chile… graphic design & dossier.
Raymi Morales, Loja, Loja, Ecuador… sound mix.
Sergio Venturini, San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina… script, editor, & sound design.
Valerio Santi, Sarayaku, Pastaza, Ecuador… camera.
ERIBERTO GUALINGA:
DIRECTOR
He is the first Amazonian Kichwa filmmaker from the original people of Sarayaku, who obtained his degree in filmmaking from the University of the Arts.
His documentaries are committed to the struggle and defense of their territory. He has made several documentaries on the resistance of indigenous peoples against extractive industries.
His film Sachata Kishipichik Mani / I am the defender of the jungle (2003), won numerous awards in Latin America, including best documentary at the 2004 Anaconda Award festival. His film Los hijos del jaguar (2012) received the award for best documentary at the National Geographic All Roads film festival, and his first feature film is called Helena de Sarayaku.
JULI HAZLEWOOD:
GENERAL PRODUCER
An intercultural geographer from Indiana, and bridging worlds between California and Ecuador, Dr. Juli Hazlewood is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Roots & Routes IC. For almost three decades she has lived and walked with the Chachi, Awá, and Afro-descendant communities that inhabit the Ecuadorian Chocó Rainforest, joining them in their struggles to defend and protect their territories and ancestral cultures.
Juli’s research, writings, and teachings focus on “Geographies of Hope” that weave together threads of decoloniality, diverse cultural ways of knowing and taking care of the Earth, collaborative activist methodologies, and Indigenous, Human, and Nature’s Rights. She is a member of the United Nations Expert Network on Harmony with Nature. One of her most recent academic papers (2023), which compliments the material of Together for Water, is called “Be(y)on(d) the map: Collaboratively activating Geographies of (De)CO2loniality/H2Ope in the Ecuadorian Chocó borderlands.”
SCRIPT, EDITING, SOUND DESIGN
SERGIO VENTURINI:
Sergio Venturini is an Argentinean film editor and sound designer with 10+ years of experience in both documentary and feature films. In 2011, after studying at Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires) he moves to Quito and edits La Muerte de Jaime Roldós (Rivera & Sarmiento), one of the most acclaimed documentary films in Ecuadorean history. He also worked with the most experienced Ecuadorean female documentarist, Yanara Guayasamin, in her project Yo Isabel, a documentary tetralogy involving hundreds of hours of material and years of making. In Argentina his work in El Encanto de la Mosca (Comba & Levis Bilsky) contributes to the film success at Festival Internacional de Documental de Buenos Aires (FIDBA) with the major prize. Dreamtown (Bastidas) is also awarded with the people’s choice award at Quito’s EDOC. Not a Bedtime Story (Penagos) is premiered and acclaimed at SheffDocFest 23. Other not so awarded films and contributions like Aquí estoy otra vez (Barriga), Saudade (Donoso), or El Facilitador are equally rewarding and important for his career and continuous development in storytelling, his true passion.