Projects
My last film is Eco de Luz - Light Memories where as writer and producer I supported Misha Vallejo in sharing his biographical story on photography, absent father figures, and family secrets.
During 2024´s first semester I was very happy to work for Intelingentarium, We developed an illustrated collectible sticker book on Quito´s history for public schools.
In (2022-23) I researched and directed a youth series on road safety and the uses of public space. It was filmed in Santo Domingo de los Tsa'chilas and is called Juégate la calle. It is being broadcasted on a local channel, Zaracay TV, and can be seen on Social Media like Facebook, Instagram, tiktok and youtube.
I also directed and wrote the children's series El equipo invincible, produced by Zonacuario for the United for healthy children from Nestle. We created 3 seasons. A chapter was nominated to the Prix Jeunesse 2018 festival in Munich, Germany. Previously I directed the TV series Atrapasueños and El Diván. I produced and co-wrote the documentary El Secreto de la luz, a project that won the DocTv Latin America award for Ecuador. I have been a teacher at UDLA University in the BA of animation and film.
I created and ran Así Dicen Mis Abuelos. It is a project that collects, shares and disseminates the ancestral knowledge and oral tradition of Ecuador. The first and most important step of this project is the field work that through art aims to link the community in a process that works the memory, revitalizes the language and promotes intergenerational relationships. From this I edited a series of books and generated films in collaboration with the communities. In 2012 this project received an honorable mention for best children's publication from the Alas-BID program. The materials were returned to the communities through an intercultural festival. ADMA works hand in hand with Oralidad Modernidad, which seeks to document and revitalize the languages of Ecuador.
Festival Cine Sordo (2012), Deaf Film Festival was the first of its kind in Latin America. Intended to bring together the deaf and hearing communities. It was held in Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca and included film screenings, an acting workshops, a subtitling workshop, talks and screenings for schools, as well as two days of lectures at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Quito.
Atrapasueños is a children's series produced for Educa TV that premiered on November 23, 2015. Children from different corners of Ecuador narrate dreams they´ve had and these become animations. Ecuador´s cultural diversity can be seen, heard and felt. Look for it on youtube.
Eco de Luz / Light Memories
Misha's journey to learn more about his family's past, including paternal absences begins with a pair of old cameras and a small photographic archive. However, his grandmother's Alzheimer's threatens to take away the few pieces of memory that remain. Through photographic experimentation and the symbolic occupation of denied space, Misha learns that memory is constantly updated and family problems, if not healed, recur.
This film premiered at IDFA and its world sales and distribution are run by Taskovski films
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El equipo invencible / The invincible team
I wrote and directed wrote the children's series El equipo invincible, produced by Zonacuario for the United for healthy children from Nestle. We created 3 seasons. is a children's series produced for Educa TV that premiered on November 23, 2015.
A chapter was nominated to the Prix Jeunesse 2018 festival in Munich, Germany.
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El secreto de la Luz / Blomberg´s secrets
I produced and co-wrote the documentary El Secreto de la luz, which won the DocTv Latin America award for Ecuador.
A look at 20th century Ecuador narrated through the work of the Swedish explorer Rolf Blomberg: his books and films, his photographs and illustrations are the archival material that make up this documentary. Blomberg arrived in 1934 to study the Galapagos Islands and destiny brought him back as many times as necessary to make Quito his center of operations. He explored Ecuador like few others and created a complex and exciting work whose re-reading, today, offers us an unpublished portrait of this country.
Festival cine sordo / Deaf film festival
Deaf Film Festival was the first of its kind in Latin America. Intended to bring together the deaf and hearing communities. It was held in Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca and included film screenings, an acting workshops, a subtitling workshop, talks and screenings for schools, as well as two days of lectures at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Quito.
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Así dicen mis abuelos / My grandparents stories
ADMA aimed to document, showcase and preserve cultural practices and traditions. I created and ran this project which collects & shares the ancestral knowledge and oral traditions of Ecuador. The first and most important step of this project is the fieldwork that through art aims to link the community in a process that works the memory, revitalizes the language, and promotes intergenerational relationships. From this, I edited a series of books and generated films in collaboration with the communities. In 2012 this project received an honorable mention for best children's publication from the Alas-BID program. The materials were returned to the communities through an intercultural festival. ADMA works hand in hand with Oralidad Modernidad, which seeks to document and revitalize the languages of Ecuador.