Alvaro Sarmiento is a non - binary Quechua documentarist, founder of HDPERU, an indigenous collective engaged in the production of films in defense of native peoples’ rights, and environmental justice in Peru.

 

During their career, Alvaro has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, MacDowell Colony, The Yaddo Corporation, IBERMEDIA Co-Production Fund, and the Carolina Foundation Residency.

 

GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS (2017) their feature debut premiered at the 67 Berlin Film Festival and the MoMA Doc Fortnight. MOTHERS OF THE LAND (2019), their second feature documentary premiered at the 69 Berlin Film Festival. VEINS OF THE AMAZON (2021), their third feature documentary premiered at the 64 DOK Leipzig.

 

Alvaro studied Media, Communications Science, and Film at the Universidad de Lima in Peru, Estacio de Sa University in Brazil, and attended an MFA in Filmmaking at Ohio University in the USA.

Diego Sarmiento's new film as an executive producer, THROUGH ROCKS AND CLOUDS, premiered at the Berlinale 2024 and won the Special Mention Generation Kplus.

 

Diego's feature debut as director and producer, GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS was premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2017 and the MoMA Doc Fortnight 2018. MOTHERS OF THE LAND (2019), his second feature documentary was premiered at the 69 Berlin Film Festival. In 2020, HDPERU won the  Berlinale Talents Footprints - Mastercard Enablement Programme award, having Wim Wenders as president of the jury, with “The Seed Project” where he took the film to schools in rural communities in the Peruvian Andes, as an impact campaign. VEINS OF THE AMAZON (2021), his third feature documentary was premiered at the 64 DOK Leipzig.

 

Diego collaborated with the museum exhibition about Werner Herzog: "The Ecstatic Truth", curated by the Deutsche Kinemathek—Museum für Film und Fernsehen, with a video statement.

 

Diego studied a Bachelor of Media & Communications at the PUCP University in Peru and an MFA in Documentary Filmmaking at EICTV in Cuba. Diego Sarmiento is a Global Impact Producer Network and Nia Tero Storytelling Fellow.

Tenmy Johan Johan Carrasco Monzón (Cusco, 1988), has studied Cinematography at EICTV in Cuba. He was also awarded a scholarship by the Canadian government in the framework of the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program, to be a visiting researcher at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Canada with a research on indigenous experimental cinema; was chosen to be part of the Berlinale Talents and Camera Studio held at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2023.

 

His work as a cinematographer in fiction and documentary, where he mixes celluloid and digital media, has been screened in different festivals around the world (Berlinale, Visions du Reel, Guadalajara Film Festival, among others).

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His feature films as a photographer, Raíz (Dir. Franco García), a fiction feature film, premiered at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in the Generation section. Viaje (Dir. José Fernández del Rio, 2018), Rojo Profundo (Dir. Maga Zevallos, 2019) and Tayta Shanti (Dir. Hans Matos) premiered at the Lima International Film Festival 2022 and 2023. Niño Probeta (Dir. Carolina Hernández), Punku (Dir. Juan Daniel F. Molero), Furia en los Andes (Dir. Adela Goldbard) and A mi manera (Karina Cáceres) are in post-production and will soon be released.

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He has given workshops on "Digital Cinematography" for the Cinematographic Training Program offered by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, and is a documentary cinematography advisor for Acampadoc Panamá and cinematography advisor for projects of the BoliviaLab laboratory. He is co-founder of the alternative cinema QINE, located in the city of Cusco, Peru.

Alex Cruz studied Communication Sciences at the UNSAAC of Cusco and Filmmaking at the Darcy Ribeiro Film School of Rio de Janeiro. His experience comes from social documentary productions mainly on development issues with people from native communities in different regions of Peru.

 

He worked as editor of the feature film GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS was premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2017 and the MoMA Doc Fortnight 2018; MOTHERS OF THE LAND (2019), premiered at the 69 Berlin Film Festival; and VEINS OF THE AMAZON (2021), premiered at the 64 DOK Leipzig.

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Alex has edited several short films, among them EARTH'S CHILDREN (Berlinale Generation 2014) and SONIA'S DREAM (Berlinale Culinary Cinema 2015).

Fabricio Deza Iturri holds a degree in Communication Sciences from the UNSAAC of Cusco. He has specialized studies in Audiovisual Multimedia Communication and is a graduate filmmaker of the EICTV of Cuba, in the specialty of editing.

 

He has worked as general coordinator of the Cinesuyu Exhibition Festival, organized by the Culture Directorate of Cusco, and as a training manager of film training programs. Advises scripts and projects of short and feature films of new Latin American directors.

 

He worked as editor of the feature film GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS was premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2017 and the MoMA Doc Fortnight 2018; MOTHERS OF THE LAND (2019), premiered at the 69 Berlin Film Festival; and VEINS OF THE AMAZON (2021), premiered at the 64 DOK Leipzig.

 

In 2010, together with Miky Araoz and Stephanie Boyd founded Quisca Producciones, producer with which they make the documentary feature OPERATION DIABLO.