LAVtv is an initiative sponsored by Fundación Chile Verde and managed by Midia, in alliance with the Chilean Documentary Corporation (CCDoc), foundations and environmental, social and other organizations thematically linked to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Our team
Teresa Vial
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Journalist, book editor, founding partner and director of the editorial and content agency Midia. Creator of LAVtv and Fundación Chile Verde, which aims to promote a culture of sustainability from different areas and perspectives.
Liliana Gonzalez
Content management and production
Journalist with 25 years of experience. Worked for more than 10 years at Canal 13 in Chile. In 2008 she created La Quinta Pata, creative and communications consultant. Producer of television programs for open channels in Chile and digital for Colombia.
Genaro Villalobos Flores
Platform content manager
Graduated in Public Relations, with experience in event production, cultural management, artistic coordination, communication analysis and consulting, Community & Content Manager and Branding, both for public and private companies and entrepreneurs.
Diego de Godoy
Alliances Brazil
Advertising director and film and TV director and screenwriter. He was artistic director of Zeppelin Films. His work has been shown in several channels such as History Channel, Fox, Discovery, Globo, Globonews, MTV Brasil, Bis, Arte 1, Curta!, among others.
Patricia Avendaño
Art Direction
Graphic designer. She has been art director in advertising agencies in Chile and Barcelona. Expert in corporate identity projects, advertising graphics, editorial design and packaging. In charge of the design of the LAVtv brand.
María de los Ángeles Cabezas
General curatorship
Field producer in television and film programs and advertising shoots. Assistant producer in documentary films. She is part of the team of the Corporación Chilena del Documental CCDoc, where she performs various tasks.
Pablo Vial
Curator Chile
Filmmaker. He directed and produced feature films such as "Ese otro país de los sueños" and documentaries and commercials in Latin America and Europe. He has made films for the Manuel Rojas Foundation and was the creator of the channel tvin.cl of the National Institute of Chile.
Gilberto Villarroel
Curator France
Journalist, filmmaker and novelist. In film he wrote and produced "Chilean Gothic", co-wrote "La Fiebre del Loco" and co-wrote and produced "Isidora". He has written 30 fiction and documentary scripts for Chilean and Latin American TV, including the series "Lord Cochrane", which he also produced.
Roger Lerina
Curator Brazil
Journalist and film critic in newspapers and TV in Brazil. Scriptwriter and host of cultural programs on TV. Author of 4 books. Curator of the projects "Meu Filme Favorito" and "Adaptação: Between Literature and Cinema", both at the Ling Institute in Porto Alegre.
Akseli Mikkola
Intern
Student and scholar from Finland. Bachelor in Social Sciences and Master in Climate Change & Global Sustainability at the University of Helsinki. Experienced in circular economy, environment and NGOs.
Collaborators
Diego Acosta
Filmmaker, artist and teacher. He directed the short film "Huaso Chileno" and the feature film "Al Amparo del Cielo", awarded as Best Chilean Feature Film at FICValdivia. He is a member of the film experimentation collective CEIS8.
Pablo Insunza
Social communicator, documentary filmmaker and master in cultural management. Director and producer of documentaries. Preservation coordinator of the Cineteca Nacional de Chile.
Renato Villegas
BA in Philosophy. MA in Documentary by Practice. Journalist, filmmaker and screenwriter. Editor of the program "Empresas 2050, por un futuro sostenible", CNN Chile.
Lucas Zañartu
Filmmaker specializing in nature documentaries and social issues. For 10 years he was the audiovisual director of the Oceana Foundation in Chile. He participated in expeditions and in the development of videos for marine conservation.
Ana Maria Risco
D. in Philosophy, with a major in aesthetics and art theory. University professor and researcher in the areas of criticism and contemporary art, writings on art, relations between image and writing, and visual image media.
Daniela Diaz
Journalist, historian and director of the Raíces Vivas Foundation. She was Latin American Director of Social Programs for Un Techo para mi País and Executive Director of Fundación Patagonia Sur. She is a researcher for the Tata Mallku Foundation, based in San Pedro de Atacama.
Claudia Vial
Anthropologist with a major in Social Anthropology, Master in Social Communication from the University of Chile. She was a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and has vast public and private experience in sustainability and CSR projects.
Alejandra Undurraga
Freelance photographer, BA in History with a postgraduate degree in photography in visual arts. More than 15 years of experience. Her work has been published in books and has been exhibited in Chile, Argentina and Spain. Partner of the studio Asa Estudio Creativo
Elena
Cross
Cultural manager, with a diploma in Corporate Social Responsibility. For more than 10 years she has been Project Director of the Corporación Patrimonio Cultural de Chile, where she has directed and managed relevant projects in the cultural and heritage field.
Bernardo Reyes
Ecologist with extensive experience in social ecology, community participatory planning and programs for the protection and restoration of critical ecosystems. Director of Fundación Ética en Los Bosques, Chile.
Alejandra Figueroa
Biologist. Specialized in planning and development of projects and strategies for biodiversity conservation, especially wetlands. Director of Corporación Capital Biodiversidad, Chile.
Nilvo Alvez da Silva
Chemical engineer, with master's degrees in Ecology in Brazil and in Sustainable Development in London. More than 30 years of experience in environmental and social issues. Experience in Brazil and in the UN Environment Program in Kenya.
Karen Klenner
Journalist specialized in sustainability, environment and stakeholder relations.
Daniela Sartori da Rocha
Degree in Biological Sciences, with a master's degree in zootechnics and specialization in animal behavior and welfare. She works in rural extension in the area of sustainability, agroecology and organic poultry farming.
Beatrice
Stamato
D. in Education, Curricular Innovation and Socio-educational Practice. She is the founder of the Giramundo Institute, determined to create new paths for the construction of a more just society. She has extensive experience in Participatory Action Research and Agroecology Education.
Rodrigo
Moreira
Veterinarian, PhD in Agroecology, Sociology and Sustainable Rural Development from the University of Cordoba - Spain. He is dedicated to practice the principles of Agroecology in life and profession. He was professor of Agroecology and Rural Extension at the State University of Paraíba - UEPB and is currently a researcher at INTERSSAN of the State University of Botucatu/SP - UNESP.
Juan Antonio
Quiroga
Architect from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and specialist in housing and sustainability, with a diploma in Cultural Management from the Universidad de Los Andes, and an amateur musician.
Roberto
Torres
Director of Wonder Digital Consulting and Communications Manager of the Artequin Museum. Master in Strategic Communication with extensive experience in the cultural industry and the development of digital platforms. Creator and technological advisor of the LAVtv platform.
Renata
Bahdur Chueire
Graduated in Journalism and Communication Design, she has been working as a freelance photographer in Berlin since 2007. Among other socially oriented photographic works, she has developed the online AIDS prevention campaign for a German organization. She is also a volunteer translator for Sadhguru's Isha Foundation and its "Save The Soil" movement.