Team

Founder

Natalie Conneely is an award winning Bolivian Actor, Producer and Activist based in Los Angeles, CA. Natalie co-wrote and co-directed the Feature Documentary Selva Adentro (2021) and was Executive Producer of Bring Me an Avocado (2019). Natalie Founded Changing Stories to commission storytelling workshops with underserved communities in Bolivia in 2014 and in 2019 in response to the Amazon fires launched Pachamama Sabia, a global social impact production house & creator of Art Awakenings, gatherings and connections to elevate artists and their art towards social good. Natalie is also Co-Founder of the Hollywood Compassion Coalition, a nonprofit entertainment industry movement to bridge science and data for creatives and audiences to gain insight and take action in regards to the impact that stories have on society.

Producer

Maria Alejandra Guerrero Rocca is an Award Winning Filmmaker (Vamos 2019) and Shortlisted for the Academy Award Oscars, Best International Picture (Libertador 2015).

She is a Latin-American TV & Film Creative Executive based in Oaxaca. Founder of GodartStudio, a premium boutique of audiovisual content & Creator of Two Serious Ladies, a duo of storytellers who have focused their writing as a force for social change, with emphasis on the representation of women’s voices and stories.

Maria is also Co- Founder of the Art Awakening Programs, to elevate artists and their art towards good, launched by Pachamama Sabia, a global social impact production house.

Cinematographer, Director

Clorinda Purrello is from the island of Sicily, she studied International Cooperation and Human Rights at La Sapienza University in Rome where she also got a diploma in Analog Photography. She began her film career in Ecuador with Amazonian communities focusing on Environmental and Gender Equity.

Her documentary Itiumu Suraka was selected at the Bilbao Invisible Film Festival (2014) as well as at other indigenous film festivals in Brazil and Chile. He directed, shot and edited several short documentaries in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. He has collaborated with numerous institutions, universities and NGOs on research and social development issues. She prides herself on working on participatory films with social issues from an ethnographic perspective.

Harold has directed several documentaries in Bolivia and Peru.

Harold also produced Søren ”by Juan Carlos Valdivia (BO),“ Wiñay ” by Alvaro Olmos (BO) and “El Silencio del deseo” by Cesar Perez (PE). He’s given talks on “Ayni", a collaborative proposal for the development of audiovisual projects, at the University of Alabama at the Native American Heritage event in 2017.

He took documentary courses at DOCUPERU (Lima-Peru), and later, benefited with the “Beatriz Palacios scholarship”, which allowed him to conclude his cinematography studies at the “Andean School of Cinematography” (La Paz-Bolivia), directed by Jorge Sanjinés, member of the Ukamau Group.