In a forgotten wetland, they row to recover their stories

PuebloAgua is a documentary and transmedia universe that journeys through the memories and knowledge of Nueva Venecia, an amphibious community rooted in the heart of the Ciénaga Grande del Magdalena. There, a generation of youth is committed to rebuilding their history and resisting the threat of erasure.

In this journey, they become fishers of stories, using technology as an ally to uncover key moments in their community: the arrival of the first settlers, the massacre, the coming of electricity, loss, and the ongoing struggle for the mangroves and the lagoon—stories that reveal both resistance and hope.

PuebloAgua Co-creation Documentary

In Nueva Venecia, a village built over water in the Ciénaga Grande del Magdalena, Colombia, young people reconstruct the memory of their community as an invasive plant suffocates the ecosystem. With no official records, they turn to elders and navigate by canoe to recover silenced stories. Between past milestones and a present environmental crisis, oral memory emerges as resistance and hope to defend their territory.

Co-creation documentary / 21 min / 2026 / Colombia

Sound Maps

Sound Maps is a participatory and environmental strategy inviting youth to identify, document, and monitor water bodies, landscapes, and emblematic places in their territory. Through training in collaborative storytelling and technology, participants capture these spaces using drone-based photogrammetry, creating photorealistic 3D maps. Each location is further activated through geolocated soundscapes—birds, voices, fishing tools, traditional songs—recorded by the youth during their journeys.