Ayelet Vardi

Ayelet Vardi is a New York and São Paulo based filmmaker and journalist. Founder of Cinema Tribu, she creates premium documentary, branded, and scripted content through a humanistic and visually stylized lens.

Her recent work includes directing a Rolex campaign celebrating global changemakers, documenting sacred rituals of the Yawalapiti tribe in the Amazon, and producing a short documentary on Sebastião Salgado for the International Center of Photography. Among other projects, she is currently directing a documentary in collaboration with Bloomberg Investigates.

From Nobel laureates to young girls reclaiming their futures in Rio’s favelas, Ayelet’s work explores human resilience, moral complexity, and perseverance.