Ingrid Paletta (b. southeast France) grew up in South America and the Caribbean. After studying advertising in Porto Rico, and earning a masters in public Communications in New York, she worked in the U.S. for 5 years as production assistant, camerawoman, and film editor for documentaries, trailers and fiction films. Between 2006 and 2009 she lived in Niger where she founded her audiovisual production company, for which she has directed and edited institutional videos, documentaries and video clips filmed in Niger, Burkina Faso and Madagascar.