About Alejandro T.

Hi, I've been working as a field production in advertising, also i have more than ten years of experience in producing, collaborating, and helping other producers in documentary and research, for NGO's and other government institutions, I have a degree in Recording arts, for sound recording, also other degree in visual communication for development, i´m finishing a master degree in environment management and sustainability, my experience in film and digital movie has been related to social and environment topics, advertising, sound recordist and sound designer for advertising and as a second camera assistant for documentary, I also i am a drone operator.

About Frantz J.

Me interesan las historias que tengan que ver con la cultura, la memoria y los problemas de representación de las personas.

About Misha V.

Misha Vallejo was born in 1985 in Riobamba, Ecuador. He is a documentary storyteller whose work focuses in Latin America and Europe. In 2014 he completed his MA in Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London.   Among other distinctions, he won the 2020 Documentary Production Funds of the Ecuadorian Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Creation for his first documentary feature film. Also, he has won the Goethe Institut and Prince Claus Fund for Cultural and Artistic Response for Environmental Change (Germany & Netherlands, 2018), the Photo Europe Network Prize at the PhotOn Festival in Valencia (Spain, 2018), he was selected for the Docking Station artist-in-residence program in two occasions (Netherlands, 2019 and 2020) and won the Ecuadorian National Arts Prize Mariano Aguilera (2015).   In 2016 he published his first photobook Al Otro Lado (Editora Madalena, Sao Paulo), which was selected among the best author photobooks at the Rencontres de la Photographie festival in 2016 (France), obtained the only honorable mention at the prize Felifa-Fola (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and was selected as the best photography book in Brazil in that same year, among many other international distinctions. In 2018, Spanish publishing house RM released his second photobook Siete punto Ocho, which won an honorable mention at the contest Pictures of The Year Latin America 2019 and was featured at the Athens Photo Fest (Greece, 2019). Recently, the same publishing house released his third book Secret Sarayaku, which is part of a transmedia documentary project that also includes an interactive web platform www.secretsarayaku.net and an exhibition. Among others, his personal work has been shown at the LUMIX Festival of Young Visual Journalism (Hannover, Germany 2020), Bronx Documentary Center (New York, USA, 2018), at the Rencontres de la Photographie festival (Arles, France, 2018), at the Budapest Photo Festival (Hungary, 2019), at the International Photography Festival of Valdivia (Chile, 2019) and in several solo exhibitions throughout Latin America and Europe. His editorial and personal work has been published in such media like The New York Times Lens, VICE, GEO, Marie Claire, Esquire and many others. He has given talks and workshops in photography and audiovisual storytelling in Latin America and Europe, a highlight of which was his participation at the 3rd Latin American Colloquium of Photography in Mexico City, 2018.   Currently he is based in Ecuador and works in film and photography throughout Latin America and Europe.

About Dani T.

Born in Ecuador and living in Colombia, Daniel is a multimedia journalist specialized in news gathering for press agencies and international media, with extensive experience working in hostile environments. For over a decade he has freelanced for: Reuters TV, Reuters Photo, AFP and Ruptly. He has also worked as a VJ and photographer for Playboy Magazine, AJPlus, Al Jazeera Arabic, NTN24, CNN Spanish, Getty Images, Christophorus Magazine (Porsche), Associated Press and others. Daniel is also an active member of the Frontline Freelance Register (FFR). Some of his top stories include "The 2016 earthquake that shook the coast of Ecuador", "The eruption of the Tungurahua volcano" that began in 2000, and "The attempted coup that unruly police officers caused in Ecuador in 2010". He is able to react quickly and has the necessary technical equipment, including satellite devices, drones, teleprompters and safety gear. Daniel is ready to cover breaking news and reports across the continent.

About Cristina M.

News correspondent for international media. Reporter, producer and - nowadays - video journalist.

About Isadora R.

Ecuadorian photographer and videographer. BA in photography from the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires in 2014, BA in film and video production at the Institute of Visual Arts in Quito in 2011 holds a diploma in contemporary photography studies by Node Center, Berlin 2011. Lecturer and researcher of the image. Her work focuses on forms of human self-representation, oral memory and the role that women play in the narration of unofficial history. She has exhibited both individually and collectively in Ecuador and Argentina. She is the winner of the Ecuadorian Photojournalism for Peace Prize and finalist of the Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award in 2017. Her project "Stardust" was a finalist in the "New Visions" contest at the Cortona on the Move festival in Italy in 2017 and a photolibro version of the project was finalist in the contest Felifa Futura of Buenos Aires in 2016. Her multimedia works have been selected and projected in Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Italy, Mexico and Spain between 2015 and 2017. Her works have been published by editorials, magazines and newspapers around the world such as RM, Le monde, Vice and Terra Incógnita. As a teacher, she has taught at different institutes and universities in Ecuador for 8 years. She has also been tutor and has given workshops in Ecuador, Argentina, Mexico and Colombia. She is part of the directive of the Association of Ecuadorian Photographers, contributor of the account @everydayecuador and part of Women Photograph.

About Roberto L.

Editor, cinematographer, content producer, with extensive experience in camera, video editing and sound editing.

About Aquiles F.

Medios Audiovisuales in the University of los Andes (ULA) Director of documentaries and television series. Jobs: Editor head in Araguato Films C.A. 2013 - 2018 Mérida - Venezuela and Quito - Ecuador Director and Editor in Karua Films 2019 - 2020 Quito - Ecuador

About Nicole A.

About David B.

I'm a designer and a filmmaker from Ecuador, I'm in charge of Treehouse, a Creative Studio in Ecuador. We are hungry for new and creative proyects on demand

About Michelle G.

Michelle Gachet is an independent photographer and videographer whose work focuses on themes related to daily life, LGBTQ rights and gender issues. She has created multimedia content for the Ministry of Culture in Ecuador, UN Women, SOS Children’s Villages, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Development Program. She is currently editing a behind-the-scenes video for an Ecuadorean documentary called "Who Killed My Father?" Gachet is a member of Women Photograph and the instagram community of @everydaylatinamerica. She based in Quito, Ecuador.

About Miko M.

Currently he works as a freelance director, cameraman, editor and colorist, for NGOs and for television channels or film production companies. He has produced as an independent his own documentaries, which most of them were based on Andean lands, like OTRA VEZ (2008), EL RING Y SUS TITANES (2010), which has been shown in numerous festivals in Buenos Aires, Austin (Texas), Belo Horizonte, Milano, Bologna, Oxaca. He was the co-author with Claudio Metallo e Nicola Grignani of UN PAGAMU. LA TASSA SULLA PAURA, a winning award reportage about pizzo, the mafia taxes at Lamezia Terme, Calabria. During the protest of 2011, he has filmed the documentary INDIGNADOS.HOW A PROTEST IS BORN, about the demonstrations in Barcelona, Spain which has been shown during the LIDF London International Documentary Festival 2012. In Peru he directed the documentary ALPAQUEROS DE APURIMAC, that has been shown in theaters at DocInTour, in Emila Romagna, Italy, and COOPERATIVAS DE APURIMAC, co-produced by GVC and Los Andes Cooperative, selected for the closing ceremony of the International Year of the Cooperatives, at IYC Short Film Festival in the United Nations Headquarters, New York, in November 2012. CUENTOS DE ALPAQUEROS (TALES OF ALPAQUEROS) was selected in the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival. Between 2012 and 2018 produce y direct various documentaries: TEACHING MICROCREDIT (Bangladesh, Mozambique, Ecuador, Tunisia, Italia 2014) PASTORES ANDINOS (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Italia 2015) TJAMPARANJANI! (Mozambique, Italia 2016) CHIPAYA. LA GENTE DE AGUA (Chipaya. The People of Water) (Bolivia, 2016) TIERRA ESPERANZA (Ecuador, 2017) RAICES DE LUCHA (Ecuador, 2018) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3554434/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

About RM S.

We are a team of innovative producers, specialists in drone shoots, based in Ecuador. Worked in some of the most impressive landscapes in this country, with charity foundations, corporative group and blogs. We had explore almost every possible use for our drones looking for the most efficient, beautiful and clean shoots ever made.

About Cooperativa A.

CoopDocs nace como una red de colaboración en la que se colectivizan los proyectos que cada uno trae consigo y colaborativamente se los viabilizan gracias a la experiencia, experticia y talentos específicos de sus integrantes, sin que la ubicación geográfica sea una limitante. Reconocemos al cooperativismo como el modo de gestión para la producción audiovisual comprometida con procesos sociales y comunitarios. Fomentamos un espacio de colaboración, a través del cual se puedan viabilizar muchos de nuestros proyectos individuales que han quedado estancados por falta de apoyos económicos, institucionales y sobre todo de tiempo y equipo humano. Mirando este elemento común, decidimos abrir un espacio en la periferia de la industria de la producción audiovisual comercial, gestionado directamente por los socios y socias y funcione como espacio de apoyo, colaboración, generación de recursos que permitan dignificar nuestro trabajo y apoye a la creación y difusión de materiales comunicacionales al servicio de organizaciones sociales, comunidades y causas sociales con las que nos identificamos. OBJETIVOS -Generar un espacio de crecimiento profesional y económico para los y las integrantes. (generación de ingresos que dignifiquen la labor profesional comprometida. -Apoyar comunicacionalmente a organizaciones sociales y comunidades para amplificar sus voces, luchas y procesos organizativos. -Aportar al fortalecimiento organizativo a partir de la formación y capacitación de los integrantes de organizaciones sociales y comunidades que se involucren en los procesos de producción comunicacional. -Aportar en la producción audiovisual, proyectos personales de los y las integrantes de la cooperativa, asi como tambien de proyectos en marcha de organizaciones sociales, ongs o procesos organizativos.

About Luis H.

Documentary photographer and ethnographer. He has studies in Plastic Arts and Sociology at the Central University of Ecuador. For more than 18 years he has worked directly with communities and organizations in the highlands, coast and eastern Ecuador. He has served as director and coordinator of different projects in Ecuador, United States and Europe, related to film, urban issues, photography, video and research. He is a founding member of CoopDocs in Ecuador. In this moment direct a documentary film call, Carmela and the walkers, documentary about Venezuelan immigrations an human help.

About Karen T.

BA in Photography, Diploma in pedagogy and communication design, Diploma in photographic documentary research and conservation. Teacher, she attended the Masters in education, languages and media. She was an associate professor in the fields of semiology, epistemology and aesthetics of images (FFyL-UBA, Argentina). Photographer on La Periódica digital feminist magazine journalism. She was part of the editorial team of Bad Memory, Diary of a photographer by Daniel Merle, published texts and photographs in Trascamara: the image designed by photographers (ed. Alex Schlenker). Exhibitions: Brazil Award in CAC (2020), "Narrativas transitorias" in No Lugar (2019), MAPPA collective exhibition of the Cátedra de café in Un Lugar Aparte (2018).

About Ramiro A.

I am Ramiro Aguilar Villamarín (Quito, Ecuador – 1985), visual anthropologist, social communicator and journalist, specialized in video and photography. Since 2014 I have worked as a videographer, photographer and reporter for national media and Hispanic-American digital portals, summing up numerous published works. By 2020 I am about to complete my master’s degree in research in visual anthropology where I have developed debates and works (written, photographic and audiovisual) on photography, cinema, memory, history, cultures, indigenous peoples and Amazonia. In addition to these topics, in my work I have approached the struggle of workers, social movements, human rights and migrations. My work and approach to the field of image and audiovisual, both in form and content, is based on strict humanitarian ethical principles. I seek to make evident the value or re-value the cases or human groups that I portrait, opposing any victimizing or discriminatory treatment nor approach. As well, I position myself critically on the traditional representations of minorities, excluded or marginalized groups. I am currently available for assignments mainly in the documentary field.

About Leo S.

Bachelor of Communication for Development at the Polytechnic Salesian University of Ecuador and Master of Documentary and Journalistic Reporting Transmedia from the Carlos III University of Madrid. It has developed in audiovisual production spaces and content conceptualization for campaigns of promotion, awareness, education and cultural reappropriation in areas related to the culture of peace, human rights and solidarity economy. The main themes covered in his work are cultural practices and human-nature dialogues. Member of CoopDocs, producer of independent documentary film.

About Juan A.

Audiovisual producer, director and editor from Ecuador. Filmmaker by profession, master's degree in Media Studies from The New School, NY. 10 years of experience recording and taking photos. I have directed and produced various videos for the internet and big screens. During the first 5 years of my experience I dedicated myself to recording music videos. Then I dedicated myself more to the production of political and web content. I did a master's degree from 2018 to 2020 in NY. Now I also work with Touche Films, a major production company in the country. Last year I directed a food reality show called "Ahora te toca a ti" and now I am editing the Behind the Scenes (material that I also recorded) for the film Misfit. My undergraduate thesis project was a documentary that is uploaded on my YouTube channel. For many years I did a lot with a small equipment . I think the important thing is the image and the story, not the fancy equipment.But, now I have my own good equipment. I care a lot about image and story, I feel confortable interviewing people . A year ago I started operating drones. I have been involved in more than a hundred of project. You can check my work in my webpage.

About Michelle F.

Freelance producer and director with experience in delivering products for national and international producction companies