Ernesto Cabellos
(Producer-Director)
When Ernesto and a handful of aspiring young Peruvians founded Guarango 13 years ago, Ernesto paid the bills by moonlighting as a taxidriver in Lima’s traffic-choked streets. Under the tutelage of award-winning Swiss filmmaker Stefan Kaspar, Ernesto began producing film and video shorts with Guarango.
Ernesto has produced short documentaries for BBC World, TVE, WDR, WETV Canada and Peruvian television. Along the way he has added camera, edition and direction to his professional repertoire and he is now president of Guarango.
In 2002 Ernesto had his directorial debut with Choropampa, The Price of Gold, a featurelength documentary that he also produced, filmed and edited with Stephanie Boyd. The film won five international awards and has been broadcast on the Sundance Channel, CBC Country Canada and Peruvian and Argentine national television. Ernesto is 39 years-old and lives in his native Lima, Peru..
Stephanie Boyd
(Producer-Director)
Stephanie was born and raised in Canada and has spent the last 10 years living and working asawriter and filmmaker in Peru. Her first filmmaking experience was co-directing the award-winning documentary Choropampa, The Price of Gold with Ernesto Cabellos.
Before coming to Peru,Stephanie lived in Nairobi,Kenya and wrote articles for the East African newspaper on human rights issues in Tanzania, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya. During her early years in Peru she
worked asafreelance journalist, publishing articles in various alternative publications, like NOW magazine and Salon.com, and reporting for Newsweek and the Dallas Morning News.
In 2000 she joined Guarango to produce Choropampa,The Price of Gold and became so obsessed with filmmaking she refused to leave.
She is 35 years old and lives in Cusco,Peru.