Ayelet Vardi

Ayelet Vardi is a New York– and São Paulo–based filmmaker and journalist with a strong investigative background. 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. She is currently directing an investigative documentary in collaboration with Bloomberg Investigates.

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