City on the Back

Ecuadorian filmmaker and visual anthropologist. Her short film Minadores (2007), about recyclers at Quito's largest garbage dump, was widely screened at international festivals. She premiered her short film Galapagos: Prisión de Basalto in 2013. City on the Back is her debut feature documentary. As a researcher, she explores issues of environment, ethnicity, gender, health and human rights. Currently, she is a doctoral student in the anthropology program at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in the research line of audiovisual anthropology and digital humanities.