Eriberto Gualinga Montalvo

Roles: Director

Eriberto Gualinga is a member of the Kichwa community of the Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorean Amazon. He has a degree in Film from the University of the Arts of Guayaquil. He is a photographer, musician and activist who began making films in his twenties, when he began to document and tell the story of the defense of the jungle following the incursion of a state-backed oil company and the military in his territory. He has directed six documentary shorts, which have won multiple awards at festivals; Helena of Sarayaku is his first feature.