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— Tikal is a media company that specializes in documentaries and series.
— About
Tikal is a media company that specializes in documentaries and series. We are a team of conflict reporters who travel the world searching for outstanding stories.
Our company has established a worldwide network of producers who are motivated to find platforms where we can showcase human stories that matter. We feel these types of stories are not featured enough in the main stream. We thrive in remote places, inaccessible to most people, unexplored lands and underground subcultures. We are fascinated by people and what’s universal to all of us.
Our Team
Mónica Villamizar
Is a three-time Emmy Award-winning Colombian-American filmmaker and war correspondent. She directed and produced the documentary TRANSITION, which premiered at Tribeca 2023 and won the Audience Award at the Berlin Human Rights Film Festival. She was a producer on Showtime’s series THE TRADE and National Geographic’s documentary THE FIRST WAVE. She was nominated for the One World Media “Journalist of the Year Award”. Monica is currently a correspondent for the PBS Newshour, and has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Mali, Congo DRC, Mexico and Haiti. In her attempts to tell truthful, hard-hitting stories, Monica has been targeted by the Egyptian military and the head of the Venezuelan military.
Javier Manzano
Photojournalist and filmmaker. Born in Mexico, Manzano left for the United States at the age of eighteen. Javier has worked as a freelance photographer covering the wars in Mexico, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria among others. He was the first freelance photographer to win the Pulitzer prize in 17 years and has also received the prestigious World Press photo awards for two years as well as the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents.
Danny Gold
American correspondent and producer that covers crime, conflict and politics. One of the founding correspondent and producers for Vice News, he has reported from 16 countries. He's snuck across the border in Syria to embed with rebels, spent time in the jails of El Salvador with gang members, nearly been blown up in Gaza, covered the front lines of the fight against ISIS and been on the ground in Liberia during the height of the Ebola outbreak.
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