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Carmen Henríquez is a Chilean-born filmmaker and television producer. She is the co-creator of multiple APTN documentary series, including Native Planet, Power to the People, and Northen Air Rescue, currently airing on APTN and scheduled for season 2! And director of the award-winning feature documentaries, Searching for Pinochet and Cry of the Andes. Carmen has produced, written, directed, and edited numerous documentaries. Potlatch Keepers, Face The Music.

Carmen, along with business partner Denis Paquette, founded RealWorld Media and Films in 1996, and they have been producing content for big and small screens from their studio in Vancouver, BC ever since.

Carmen is currently working on a new episodic series titled The Conversation. In each one-hour episode, drug use survivors are joined by their families and friends in a raw and emotive conversation about their pathway to healing. With acclaimed First Nations actor and public health officer, Dr. Evan Adams THE CONVERSATION delivers much needed insight into this growing health and social crisis. Coming this fall to the TELUS network.