Rocío Gómez Semanate

Rocio is the Coordinator and General Producer of WarmiCine, a creative laboratory for women, and of MuyuyCine, an audiovisual incubator working across Ecuador. These training and media production processes seek to weave, complement and highlight the presence of Indigenous Peoples.nAs cultural manager for film promotion, Rocio has received several accolades at the national level, and was awarded municipal participatory funds for interdisciplinary projects. Other national recognitions include the Mushuk Nina Award for Contribution to Indigenous Peoples Through Audiovisual Art, and Quito’s Municipal Recognition for Contribution to the Development of Culture.

Her films include: Somos pueblo, Trenzando vida, Manuela 1945, Kitu Kara, and La Yumba. Her works are the result of a training process and a reflection on identity around contemporary Kitu Kara people and their practices as urban Indigenous people in the capital of Ecuador. She has been a field producer and presenter of the television series “Ecuador Ancestral” and worked on the feature film “Semillas de Lucha.” She is co-director of several Indigenous film festivals and exhibitions such as the recent FIC CLACPI Ecuador 2022. She trained as a social communicator, visual anthropologist and cultural manager, scriptwriter, filmmaker, audiovisual producer and popular trainer, ancestral dancer and cultural activist.

Andrés Tapia Arias

Andrés Tapia is Political Advocacy Coordinator of CLACPI, former communication leader of the la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana CONFENIAE for two periods 2016-2023, Co-founder and former Director of Radio La Voz de la CONFENIAE (2019- 2023) as well as co-founder of the network of community communicators Lanceros Digitales. Audiovisual producer and director, he has produced and co-produced documentaries and advocacy campaigns for the defense of Amazonian territories; he co-directed the documentary Allpamanda, on the struggle of Indigenous Nations of the Ecuadorian Amazon over four decades of organizing. He has written books and articles in social sciences and communication, among them Estallido, La Rebelión de Octubre en Ecuador, in Spanish and English, with Leonidas Iza, president of CONAIE. He obtained the Tránsito Amaguaña national award in 2019 from the Organization of Ibero-American States for the creation of the Lanceros Digitales Network of communicators, and was recognized as an outstanding journalist from the “Times of Change” program of the Ombudsman of Ecuador, honoring the work of Ecuadorian journalists in the promotion and protection of human rights and nature.

Nelly Kuiru / Moniyango (Árbol de la abundancia)

Nelly (whose traditional name is Moniyango) belongs to the Murui-M+n+ka (Uitoto) people of La Chorrera (department of Amazonas, Colombia). She is the general coordinator of CLACPI and director of film and audiovisual media, with studies at the National School of Film and Audiovisual Arts of Eliseo Subiela (Buenos Aires, Argentina). From 2012 to 2021, she was National Communication Commissioner of the Indigenous Peoples of the Macro-Amazon of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia. In 2014 she was appointed as delegate of the Minister of Culture in matters of citizen’s media for the Colombian Amazon. She is co-founder of the National Communication Commission of Indigenous Peoples (CONCIP) and Ciber Amazonas (Network of Women Communicators of the Amazon Basin).

She is the founder and coordinator of the first School of Indigenous Communication in the Colombian Amazon (Ka + Jana Uai –La Voz de Nuestra Imagen) and the first association of Indigenous women in the Department of Amazonas (Nimaira-Amazonas). She is co-responsible for the negotiations with the Government of the Republic of Colombia, along with other representatives of Indigenous Organizations, for the creation of the Public Communication Policy of and for the Indigenous Peoples of Colombia and the National Television Plan. She studied social communication at Southern New Hampshire University (USA).

Ivan Sanjinés Saavedra

Ivan Sanjinés Saavedra is a communicator, filmmaker, audiovisual producer and documentary filmmaker born in La Paz, Bolivia. Specialist in intercultural communication and indigenous community media. His work over the last 25 years is linked to experiences in training and transferring communication and video technologies with different indigenous peoples in Bolivia and Latin America. He is the main founder and current director of CEFREC (Foundation for the Development of Intercultural Communication), an entity that has been working within the scope of the Plurinational System of Indigenous Peasant Intercultural Communication, a broad initiative for the training, production and dissemination of original indigenous audiovisual and communicational communication.