Team

Founder

Natalie Conneely is an award-winning Bolivian actor, producer, and environmental activist. With a background in Political Science and Film/TV/Theater from the University of Notre Dame, she started her career with CNN International in London and Abu Dhabi. Natalie is producing and co-directing the documentary Selva Adentro (Jungle Inside), a project that earned her a NALIP Latino Media Market Fellowship. She executive produced Bring Me an Avocado (2019), which won the audience award at Cinequest.

In 2019, she launched Pachamama Sabia to promote indigenous storytelling, and in 2020, she co-led the Hollywood Compassion Coalition to bridge science and storytelling. When not guiding impactful stories, she connects with nature alongside her husky dingo, Savannah, and baby wolf, Shilo.

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.

Intuitive Producer

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.

Program Director

Angela Sheehan is a Colombian-Bolivian industrial artist, photographer, and teacher. She combines her experience in creative arts with design.

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. She directed, shot and edited several short documentaries in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. She 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.