Virginia is an architect, indigenous rights advocate and visual ethnographer. Her research and documentation of the Amazon as a space constructed and designed by women has been funded by the US Department of Education, Columbia University and University of Michigan and has been exhibited in New York City and Quito. It was published by Columbia Books and FLACSO. Virginia studied Quechua and Kichwa at NYU and at the Andes and Amazon Field School in Tena, Ecuador. Rights of Nature: El Alma del Pueblo is her first film.
VIRGINIA BLACK
Producer
CASEY CARTER
Director/Editor
Casey Carter is a photographer and environmental researcher working for Maya Lin Studios in New York City. His projects have been based, funded, and exhibited in three continents, located in Beijing, Detroit, rural Tennessee, and Quito. As a Fellow of the Instituto de la Ciudad in Quito, Casey developed "Espherias de Aparencia," a set of photographs examining the language of bodies in protest within and about the metropolis- on the street, in the square, in the church or the cemetery, and within the newly constructed commercial malls. He holds degrees in Physics, Photography, Architecture, and Research in Design Health.
ERIK FINSRUD
Sound + Graphic Designer
Erik is a Freelance Art Director, Visual Designer, and Musician. He is the founder of Norik. The firm produces graphic design, branding, illustration and UX consulting for small and global brands in advertising, publications, art, music, streetwear, and technology, Their clients include Honda, Popular Mechanics, Bushwick Film Festival, Breakbeat Science, Eskimo Recordings, 360i, Ghostly International, Digitas LBi, Vault 49, Deep Focus, Daily, and Hearst Publishing.