OUR TEAM

Franco Campos-Lopez Beyunes
Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Writer

Clate Korsant
Producer

Xiye Bastida
Executive Producer

Raúl López
Associate Producer

Serge Dedina
Executive Producer

Mariya James
Unit Production Manager

Carlos Rojas Felice
Editor

Adrian Hernandez
Composer, Original Music

Magen Entertainment is the production company for Who Saved the Whale Lagoon, which is a Project of The Ocean Foundation. The International Community Foundation is also receiving and administering charitable gifts for our documentation of Laguna San Ignacio. Both Foundations are 501(c)3 organizations.

Francisco campos-lópez

Director, Cinematographer
President, Magen Entertainment

Franco is a Chilean-born film director, producer and writer. He began his film studies and career in Argentina. Franco’s work has taken him around the world, and he has taught master classes in China and Israel.

He has made films about conservation in Patagonia, the Amazon, and the Andes. Franco moved to the US in 2009. His most recent feature film was “I Did Her Wrong”. His company Magen Entertainment is producing the films for the “Who Saved the Whale Lagoon” project.

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Clate Korsant

Producer

A New York City-based cultural anthropologist, Clate currently teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has taught anthropology courses at Goldsmiths and Bard College’s Bard Prison Initiative. His dissertation, Environmentalisms in Practice: From National Policy to Grassroots Activism in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula (2018), became the premise for the ethnographic documentary, Lifting the Green Screen (Tras el Velo Verde). In particular, Clate has developed scholarship at the intersection of political ecology, environmental theory, socio-political justice, and conservation.

With a lifelong interest in visual and performing arts, Clate has completed courses at the New York Film Academy and Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. From landscape and travel photography to writing and performing on stage, he has recognized storytelling to be a compelling vehicle for creative expression. Especially at the critical confluence of environmental health and socio-political justice, visual narrative and ethnographic storytelling become vital.

Raúl López

Associate Producer

Raúl López moved to Laguna San Ignacio in the early 1980s, and since then has become a prominent member of the community and leader in local conservation efforts.

Raúl is the founding partner of Ecoturismo Kuyimá (whale watching outfitter) and is currently the treasurer of the board of directors. He is also the first president of the board of directors of Laguna Baja Rural Association of Collective Interest, an organization that brings together providers of tourist services to guarantee safety and quality service to all visitors to Laguna San Ignacio. Previously, Raúl was an inspector and advisor to the Advisory Council of the El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, as well as the coordinator of the ecological easements in private plots and lands of common use of the Ejido Luis Echeverría in Laguna San Ignacio.