Wency Mendes is an artist, independent researcher, and documentary filmmaker with over twenty-five years of industry experience. Trained as a cinematographer and editor, he has worked extensively across Advertising, Broadcast Television, and Digital-Web platforms, independently producing award-winning content. Alongside this, he engages with video and technology in theatre and performance, and develops conceptual and installation art projects that have travelled internationally.

His practice lies within indigenous and tribal communities, shaped by shared concerns of land and water, environment, sustainability, and climate change. Here, he frames his work within an ethos of Indigenous-Eco-Futurism, documenting practices, oral cultures, and processes of ethno-technologies, while also exploring the politics of food, consumption, and the making and dissemination of knowledge through the creation of sensoriums. For him, local—both geospatial and temporal—and indigenous knowledge are critical in envisioning inclusive and sustainable futures.