ETÉREA was created to bring MAMA to life, a documentary that goes beyond images to become a testament to resilience and sensitivity.
Its existence reflects the ephemeral and intangible nature of life itself. True to its name, ETÉREA is a production company that does not cling to permanence but embraces transience to create works that endure, with the certainty that art and film transcend time.
Ana Cristina Benítez
Director and General Producer
Ana Benítez (Quito, Ecuador, 1983). Film director, producer and founder of Eterea. With a career focused on collective and social productions, as well as film workshops for at-risk youth. She directed the experimental short film Vórtex del Placer Sagrado, showcased at international festivals between 2019 and 2020, and her work None Died Here was selected for many film festivals including Talent Buenos Aires, EDOC, Arica Nativa, and won the price for best rural shortfilm in the Kunturñawi Film Festival in 2022. In 2025, she premiered her first feature documentary film MAMA at Hot Docs, further establishing her presence in documentary filmmaking.
MAMA
Director / General Producer
Documentary featrure film
2025
Facing a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis, director Ana Cristina Benítez crafts a deeply personal and unflinching reflection on years of medical treatment and the long, intimate journey toward healing.
LAS NAVES: a living body
Director
Documentary short film
2024
LAS NAVES: A Living Body immerses us in the intimate and almost organic connection between the inhabitants of Las Naves and their land. Through the poetic narration of its residents, the documentary reveals how the life of this community pulses in sync with the rivers that flow and the fields that grow.
NONE DIED HERE
Director
Documentary short film
2022
The ancestry of the Afro-descendant communities is eternalized in their traditions. In Telembí – Ecuador, the Day of the Dead is a rite in which the souls of the ancestors are guided by “animeros”, who are spiritual guardians chosen by the community. Every November, the families watch an empty coffin that symbolizes the souls of the Dead. Songs and prayers accompany the deceased, wherever they are.
Between the human and the animal, the surreal and the real, two bodies begin a courtship of seduction and infatuation—only to fall into a trap where the true nature behind one of their masks is revealed: violence, repression, and the relentless harassment of the other.
Ana Cristina Benítez
Director and General Producer
Ana Benítez (Quito, Ecuador, 1983). Film director, producer and founder of Eterea. With a career focused on collective and social productions, as well as film workshops for at-risk youth. She directed the experimental short film Vórtex del Placer Sagrado, showcased at international festivals between 2019 and 2020, and her work None Died Here was selected for many film festivals including Talent Buenos Aires, EDOC, Arica Nativa, and won the price for best rural shortfilm in the Kunturñawi Film Festival in 2022. In 2025, she premiered her first feature documentary film MAMA at Hot Docs, further establishing her presence in documentary filmmaking.
MAMA
Director / General Producer
Documentary featrure film
2025
Facing a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis, director Ana Cristina Benítez crafts a deeply personal and unflinching reflection on years of medical treatment and the long, intimate journey toward healing.
LAS NAVES: a living body
Director
Documentary short film
2024
LAS NAVES: A Living Body immerses us in the intimate and almost organic connection between the inhabitants of Las Naves and their land. Through the poetic narration of its residents, the documentary reveals how the life of this community pulses in sync with the rivers that flow and the fields that grow.
NONE DIED HERE
Director
Documentary short film
2022
The ancestry of the Afro-descendant communities is eternalized in their traditions. In Telembí – Ecuador, the Day of the Dead is a rite in which the souls of the ancestors are guided by “animeros”, who are spiritual guardians chosen by the community. Every November, the families watch an empty coffin that symbolizes the souls of the Dead. Songs and prayers accompany the deceased, wherever they are.
Director
Experimental short film
2019
Between the human and the animal, the surreal and the real, two bodies begin a courtship of seduction and infatuation—only to fall into a trap where the true nature behind one of their masks is revealed: violence, repression, and the relentless harassment of the other.