Equipo

Lorenzo Moreno Pajarito

Co-director

Myriam Hernández

Co-directora y productora

Isabel Monarca Cruz

Co-directora

Mariana Góngora

Consultora de producción

Dane Christensen

Productor creativo

Karen Bellato

Productora

Ana Abellán

Diseño gráfico

Rubén Darío Salinas

Comunicación

Adriana Trujillo

Productora de Impacto

Mauricio Miramontes

Productor asociado

Víctor González Rosas

Fotógrafo

Laura Barragán

Productora asociada

A checklist for ethical film-making with communities:

Open the process for selecting who and why could benefit the most from a VR film.
Be ready to build an honest and caring relationship with the people you want to create the film with.
Spend enough time - or partner with someone who has been - building trust and local understanding of the community you’re engaging with.
Ensure all your participants relate to the medium (VR) before anything.
Prime individual and collective dignity over camera angles or storylines.
Decentralize cinematographic decisions to collectively design the experience.
Share know-how on using the film-making equipment so local communities can actively participate in production.
In production, plan carefully and leave room for serendipity. It’s part of listening.
De-colonize narratives by engaging with local artistic expressions, languages and landscape’s sounds of the communities sharing their story.
Pay attention to the stories often concealed by intersections of age, gender, and social status.
Take care of the viewer. Be up front about the purpose of inviting someone into the virtual reality experience.

Define ownership rights for each actor involved and sign on them.
Include translators in the process of obtaining image-waivers and negotiating the copyright structure.
Thoughtfully think how any potential dividends reflect the ethics of your film.
Prioritize congruence over funding. Ask the story-tellers who should be involved and under what conditions.
Spend enough time and care in crediting each participant.
Collectively agree on the “terms and conditions” to present and reproduce the film.
The launching and distribution strategy must be co-created with all actors involved in the film.

Learn and adopt the community's ways of socializing, respecting the times and places for it.
Establish a code for communication by using interpreters to share in their own language, and harnessing non-verbal communication.
Learn which care practices are relevant for the community and make them always present during your time on location. Advocate for mutual care.
Measure your questions. It is exhausting for communities to explain and guide you through the story you want to find, or understand.
Reflect on your positionality all the time: What power do I have in this situation? How am I using -or shifting- that power?
Be ready and open for conflict, it is part of building collectively.
Find partners who are aligned with the values and principles of the project.
De-link stories from money-making dynamics.
There should be ethical dilemmas: it’s a good indicator of shaking power structures.