Fruit of Soil

Faith is a documentary filmmaker and podcast host passionate about sharing contemporary stories from underserved communities. Her favorite feelings are sun on skin and warm mud oozing between toes. She is grateful for the life changing knowledge of literary grandmothers including Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Zora Neale Hurston, & Toni Cade Bambara She works at the intersection of environment, race, history, culture and the outdoors She collaborates with organizations, brands and individuals to share stories that contribute to co-creating the better world we believe in She is a graduate of Yale University and the Journalism Institute at New York University.

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Tracy is a strategist, storyteller, and organizer whose work spans documentary, commercial and branded, environmental, and communications Her most recent work explores abolition through an environmental justice lens Her previous credits include the BAFTA and Emmy-nominated documentary, 'The Great Hack' (co-producer) and 'Connection' (producer/co-director), which world premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Tracy is a Partner at After Bruce, Brown Girls Doc Mafia board member, the founder of Brown Folks Fishing, and was recognized as one of Outside Magazine’s 2019 Outsiders of the Year for her work with the organization.

Kay

KAY is the story of a fishers group from the Port of Celestun, a small town located on the emblematic Yucatan Peninsula, who create the largest Fishing Refuge Zone (FRZ) in Mexico. This initiative seeks to restore the quantity and types of species that inhabit this region to face the severe threats of climate change, pollution, and overexploitation of the oceans. These fishers of Mayan ascendence will fight against all adversities because they are convinced that their initiative can significantly change the country and inspire other fishing communities to protect their resources for future generations.

Director/Producer: Ángel Ricardo Linares Colmenares

Co-Director/Producer: Jimena Mancilla

Stage: In Production

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Colmenares

Ángel is a Venezuelan documentary filmmaker based in México He graduated from the National School of Film Arts at UNAM (ENAC-UNAM) and was nominated for the Ariel Award and was awarded best documentary short film at Morelia International Film Festival among other national and international awards. His documentaries have been screened at the Semaine de la Critique of the Cannes Film Festival, the Sarajevo Film Festival, and the Havana Film Festival, among others. He was elected as Jackson Wild Summit Fellow 2022; Santiago Wild Lab Fellow 2023; at the Pathways Mentorship Program of the Realscreen Summit 2021 and the Emerging Content Creator Initiative of the NALIP His work is focused on the social and environmental issues of indigenous, peasant, and rural communities in Latin America and the world.

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Jimena is a producer and multidisciplinary artist with an MA in Applied Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Founder of Matricaria production company, she has collaborated in creating and producing multidisciplinary projects in Mexico, the UK, and Europe She was one of four producers selected worldwide by Everywoman Studios and the Real Screen Summit 2021 as part of the Propelle Accelerator for Women programme. Her work focuses on the documentary genre with an interdisciplinary approach in projects that address gender equality, migration, refugees, and environmental causes