Carolina Montejo / Creative Director
Visual artist, filmmaker, and educator with a B.A in Communications from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and an MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego. Carolina is a multi-passionate academic who has taught various courses including Film and Video Production, Ecofeminism, Photography, Film Theory, and Writing. She currently teaches ‘Argumentative Writing with a focus on Climate Change’ at Muir College, UC San Diego, as well as ‘Media and Identity’ in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at San Diego State University. Her films have been selected for festivals such as the Montreal Independent Film Festival, the Berlin International Art Film Festival, and the New York Movie Awards. Her artworks have been shown extensively for the past 15 years in venues such as the emerging artist pavilion Arte-Camara at Artbo International Art Fair in Colombia, the San Diego Art Institute, ArtexArte Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Espacio Morelos in Guadalajara, Mexico, UCLA’s New Wight Gallery, and the Sturt Haaga Gallery at the Descanso Gardens in La Cañada, CA.
Marty Davis / Animator and illustrator
Marty’s credits include co-director on THQ’s Ratatouille video game for Disney/Pixar, which won the Annie for Best Video Game Animation of the year. Clients have included Mass Animation, Fox Television, Cirque de Soleil, Sony and DC Comics. Currently designing and directing animation for film and commercial projects, and teaching Animation and Illustration for Fullerton College. Marty created the animation for Telepathine Studios, the animated sequences in Coming Clean: A Demand for a Fossil Free UC, as well as the plant oracle animation in Rizomas.
Paola Montejo / Web & App Designer
Industrial & Interior Designer with a BA from Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia, an MFA from Labasad Design School in Barcelona, and a UX/UI designer from Coderhouse. Paola is a 3D animator and web and app designer, doing freelance work for a broad range of industries, including architecture, fashion, product design, and film. Paola developed the urban ecologies animated sequence for Rizomas, designed the Femme Vitale credit sequence, and has worked as a design consultant for Telepathine Studio.
Andre Salehian / Videographer
Media creator, editor, and photographer with a BA in Business from UCSD. Andre is passionate about gender, racial, and climate justice and has been a Freelance video maker for the past 5 years. In 2019, Salehian Co-created This Is the Deal alongside Carolina Montejo, and in 2021 they Co-created Coming Clean: A Demand for a Fossil Free UC. Andre focuses on cinematography and editing.
Collaborators and Clients
As a filmmaker and media producer, Carolina Montejo has worked for the Medellin-based creative platform El Arbol del Magnolio in the Co-creation of the Children’s podcast Un Magnolio en mi Ciudad; as well as for the Green New Deal at UCSD grassroots organization and Aaron Lab of Psychology and Climate. Contributors and collaborators in past projects include the Bullerengue music group from Barranquilla, Colombia, Tonada; the Bogotá-based female-led food sovereignty organization Red de Mujeres Contruyendo Futuro.
