Director

Stephanie Boyd is a Canadian filmmaker and writer who has been living and working in Peru since 1997. Her documentaries have been broadcast on the Sundance Channel, Al Jazeera, CBC Country Canada, KBDI Colorado, Outside TV and other networks and have won more than 30 international awards. Her latest film, Karuara, People of the River, was coproduced with a Kukama indigenous women’s federation and radio station and premiered at Hot Docs 2024.

Miguel, born in 1977 in Cusco, Peru, is a visual artist. His first animated film, And That Is How the Rivers Came to Be (2019), was selected for Annecy IAFF. He has worked with indigenous painters in the Amazon for over a decade, leading workshops for Kukama children that inspired the animation. Miguel and two painters created 2,000 hand-drawn frames. His works are in major exhibitions, including the Smithsonian Museum.