Making documentaries about amazing people holding strong ancestral traditions with meaning today is my passion. I am a professor of history by training and also write books and articles, but making documentaries is a real love of mine because of the way it allows people to tell their own stories with less input from me. Documentaries also touch audiences in different ways to writing, creating a visceral experience, allowing the viewer to go 'into the field' as I am extraordinarily lucky to be able to do. Sometimes, as in my latest film Viva Yurumanguí, the audience become part of the answer: to the people of the Yurumanguí, having their unique culture heard widely is a form of resistance, a bet against those trying to expunge them from the map.