Pitch The Whickers

Ako

Directed by:

Juan Pablo Monsalvo / Michelle Corona Pierce

Produced by:

Max Lavalle Müggenburg

Production Company

Vista Ciega Cine

Contact:

  • Year

    2028

  • Length

    90 min

  • Country

    Mexico and Brazil / On site

Synopsis

Ako Kamanawa, from the Noke Koi Amazonian tribe, leaves the jungle with the hope of sharing his sacred medicine. But he is instead used to transport Ayahuasca and spends a year imprisoned in Mexico. On conditional freedom, he faces a system that criminalizes his culture and finds a family while searching for his place between two worlds.

  • Juan Pablo

    Monsalvo

    Director

    Juan Pablo Monsalvo is a director, actor, and photographer trained at CasAzul and the Escuela Activa de Fotografía (Active School of Photography). He has worked as an assistant director on «Enrique IV», directed by Octavio Michel Grau. He produced the short film «Orfeo».

  • Michelle

    Corona Pierce

    Director

    Michelle Corona is a writer and photographer with training from the Claustro de Sor Juana and the Escuela Activa de Fotografía (Active School of Photography). Her work has been featured in independent media and various galleries. She directed the short film «¿When did i become the mosquitoes?»

  • Max

    Lavalle Müggenburg

    Producer

    Producer of the documentaries «Un Mundo de Cerros» by G. Barrera and C. Nasisse (to be release on 2026) and «Palomarez» by A. Schmucler. Production manager in «The weavers song» by I. Vásquez (Hot Docs, FICG, FICM). Teaches documentary production in ESCINE.

Other projects

The Last Guató

Project Brazil / On site

Object

Project Chile and Germany / On site

VERTICAL HEARTBEAT

Project Colombia, Bolivia, and Nepal / On site

Queen of the People

Project Colombia / On site

Hello Ulises, It’s Paulina

Project Chile / On site

Masters of Sound

Project Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru

Marithea

Project Colombia / On site

The other voice

Project Argentina - Spain / On site

The Capture: The Incredible Story of the Lawyer Who Made It Possible

Project Chile / On site

Unveiling the Cosmos: the Rubin Observatory

Project Chile, Spain and Germany / On site

Demolitions

Project URUGUAY / On site

Our fur baby Moma

Project Uruguay / On site

Migratory Stars

Project MEXICO - COLOMBIA / On site

The Country That We Were

Project Mexico, United States, Dominican Republic and Ukraine / On site

The Braves

Project Chile / On site

Bombs

Project Chile / On site

Archaeology of Torture

Project BRAZIL - URUGUAY - FRANCE

Nature of Color

Project Brazil and Chile / On site

Chuchu

Project Chile / On site

The Threshold

Project CHILE / On site

Sea Route

Project Chile / On site

Kimbo

Project Cuba / Online

Undetectable

Project Brazil / On site

Endless Soul

Project BRAZIL

Chemamüll

Project Germany and Chile / On site

Analog Zambra

Project Chile and Mexico / On site

The island in silence

Project Mexico / On site

Way to freedom

Project Argentina / On site

Home

Project Chile / On site

just stay silent

Project Brazil y Colombia / On site

Lourdes

Project Brazil / On site

Víctor Saldaño vs US

Project Argentina / On site

The art of wasting time

Project CHILE / On site

Fighting a Pink Plague

Project Chile / On site

Gondola

Project Chile / On site

Asteroid 2518

Project Chile / On site

Gil’s Passage

Project Brazil / On site

The criminal record of Madame Wittmann

Project CHILE / On site

Sketches of the End of the World

Project Chile / On site

MODULE 33

Project Chile / On site

South Pole Explorers

Project Chile / On site

A Path of Thorns

Project Mexico / Online

The criminal record of Madame Wittmann

Project Chile / On site

Saving Patagonia

Project Chile / On site

Like a Flame Burning in the Dark Night

Project COSTA RICA - ECUADOR

The Incredible Story of a Film We Never Saw

Project PERU

Cabañas

Project DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - VENEZUELA - PORTUGAL / On site

Wounded Faith

Project Chile / On site

SAVAGE

Project Chile / On site

I Will Die a Chilean

Project CHILE / On site