The Team
Franco Campos-Lopez Benyunes
Franco is an American Chilean-born director, producer, and writer made in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he began his studies. His work has taken him around the world, where he has won numerous film awards in the US; he has taught master classes in the US, China and Israel; he has also been deeply dedicated to his conservation efforts in Patagonia, the Amazon, and the Andes.
He moved to the US in 2008 after earning a Visa for extraordinary ability in the arts. I Did Her Wrong (2016) is his first fiction feature film. His recent film #DamBusters (2022) has given him world exposure.
Clate Korsant
Clate is a distinguished cultural, environmental, and visual anthropologist, as well as an accomplished ethnographic filmmaker. He serves as a Faculty and the Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. With nearly five years of involvement in the production of The Way of the Whale, Clate brings a wealth of experience in ethnographic storytelling. His previous film, Lifting the Green Screen (2020), earned critical acclaim, winning the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Mimesis Ethnographic Film Festival.
Now in his eighth year of teaching anthropology in higher education, Clate has extensively published on environmental anthropology, political ecology, and ethnographic practice in leading journals such as Globalizations, Streetnotes, and Goldsmiths Anthropology Research Papers. A dedicated advocate for wildlife and socioenvironmental justice, Clate’s work continues to bridge academia, filmmaking, and activism to inspire meaningful change.
Xiye Bastida
Xiye is a 24-year-old Indigenous climate justice activist. She is TIME100 Next, and holds the UN Spirit Award. With roots in the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community in Central Mexico, she has been actively involved in organizing climate strikes with Fridays For Future since 2019, co-organizing the largest youth-led march in New York City with over 300,000 participants. In 2020, she co-founded the Re-Earth Initiative, focusing on providing resources and knowledge to frontline communities. Re-Earth Initiative has members in over 26 countries and is fully youth-led.
Xiye’s advocacy led her to address 40 world leaders at the Biden Climate Summit in 2021 and close the World Leaders Summit at COP26, emphasizing the importance of climate justice, youth engagement, and a just transition. She now serves as an ambassador to the United Nations High-Level Champions.
Her powerful words and storytelling have led her to take the stage at the Nobel Prize Summit, VOGUE, TED, Global Citizens, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The World Economic Forum, and many others. In 2023, she was named ELLE Woman of the Year.
Carlos Rojas Felice
Editor
Carlos Rojas Felice
Carlos is a documentary editor based in New York. He has edited notable films such as They Took Them Alive (Full Frame 2017), Tre, Maison, Dasan (San Francisco Intl FF 2018), for which he received the Karen Schmeer Award for Excellence in Documentary Editing, The Great Hack (Sundance 2019), White Noise (AFI 2020), and The Territory (Sundance 2022), which won both the Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft.
Carlos has been a creative advisor at the Sundance Art of Editing Lab in 2020 and the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab in 2022. He studied Latin American Studies and Economics at Wesleyan University and earned a Master in Media Studies from The New School.
Beverly J. Camhe
Beverly J. Camhe is an entertainment professional spanning over five decades as a writer/producer of Film, TV, Live and Virtual productions. She has served as an executive with some of the most prestigious studios and production companies including Lorimar (Dallas Series), David Frost (The Nixon Interviews) MGM, Orion Pictures and Universal. She has produced major Hollywood feature films including: The Believers starring Martin Sheen and directed by the Academy Award winning director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), The Package starring Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones, and Junior starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny de Vito.
She produced the Earth’s Call Climate Summit in May 2019 in Aspen Colorado. Over 2,000 people attended the event, that honored environmental leaders and highlighted the city’s 100% renewable energy status. She launched EarthxWomen virtually in April 2020. This was the first inter generational conference and included luminaries like Jane Fonda, Lisa Ling, Pat Mitchell, Eve Ensler among the others.
Ms. Camhe in recent years has focused on youth activism. She took several youth climate activists to Paris last summer where they were on stage at the Global Citizen concert for the Macron Summit. She is now creating a Global Youth Force to support their activism that is funded by Salesforce. Along with Global Citizen she advises many other organizations with their efforts to include youth participation in their climate and social justice initiatives. Ms. Camhe intends to provide storytelling opportunities for the Global Youth Force and is committed to having their voices heard.
Adrián Hernández
Adrian Hernandez is a powerhouse of musical innovation and storytelling, carving a distinctive path in film scoring and media with his dynamic compositions and collaborative brilliance. From crafting the evocative score for the 2022 documentary feature Dambusters by director Francisco Campos-Lopez to earning accolades as composer and arranger for the Telly Award-winning children’s animation Outland-Ish, Adrian’s portfolio radiates creativity and impact. Adrian played a pivotal role as project manager and arranger for the Grammy®-winning album Soundtrack of the American Soldier, showcasing his ability to blend passion, precision, and expertise into award-winning productions. Born and raised in Dallas, TX, Adrian honed his craft at the University of Texas at Austin under the mentorship of Kevin Puts and Donald Grantham.
