DAMS AMONG US

Rodrigo Guim is a photographer, documentary filmmaker, ecologist and anthropologist, with works done with many indigenous peoples throughout Brazil. He taught several indigenous peoples on photography and documentary production. He holds a PhD in Communication from University of Sâo Paulo, through the Audiovisual Media and Processes program. He also studied cinema at USA schools such as San Francisco City College, and in Brazil at Academia Internacional de Cinema and Sesc, among others. He produced several short films in various fields of cinema, in the roles of photographer, editor and director. His first short film on a ritual of the Xavante people of Brazil was commercialized in VHS format in the year 2001, before the arrival of DVD for the Brazilian consumer market. He then later moved on to teach several indigenous people of Brazil on the art of photography and documentary filmmaking, producing many short videos and documentaries in collaboration and even codirection with them. In 2019 he finished his first feature documentary called IN THE NAME OF MY PEOPLE, about the history of more than 40 years of wars in Afghanistan, shot on location and featuring Malalai Joya as protagonist and Noam Chomsky among others. DAMS AMONG US is a 20-year production, and his second feature documentary film as director.