The Last Chinamperos

MeganAlldis

Megan Alldis is a videographer and cinematographer in documentary and documentary-style commercial projects. She employs creative nonfiction methods film, photography, collage animation, and audio field recordings to create inspiring stories that celebrate humanity’s diversity and surprising interconnectedness She began her career in documentary filmmaking when studying Cinema Production and International Relations at San Francisco State University During her studies, she spent a year immersed in a Maasai homestead on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, working with the local community to document endemic gender disparity. Eventually returning to the Bay Area after working in Mexico City, she now works as an independent filmmaker full-time.

PatricioBuenrostro-Gilhuys

Patricio Buenrostro was born and raised in Mexico City After attaining his BFA in Animation at the Academy of Art University in SF, he received Best Experimental Film for his animated short “Chalma” at Kinoki 2006 He is the former Director of the Animation Bachelors Program at Universidad de Artes Digitales, in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the former Director of the Animation and Digital Arts Bachelors Programs at CEDIM in Monterrey, Mexico. He has worked with the Institute for the Future, Laboratorio para la Ciudad in collaboration with MIT Media Lab. Patricio continues animating and creating in Mexico City