Hi, my name is Jimmy Beveridge. I am a Ph.D. candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Texas in Austin. I live in the small South American nation of Ecuador which is truly a marvelous place on Earth with her mega bio and cultural diversity encompassing the Amazon, Andean mountains, Pacific coast, and the Galapagos islands, and of course the vibrant indigenous fabric of Ecuadorian society composed not only of Quichua speaking Andean peoples but a plentitude of other cultures and languages all woven in Ecuador’s tapestry.
I received my master’s degree in Anthropology as well as my bachelor’s double degree in Anthropology and Latin American Studies from the University of Texas in Austin. My undergraduate senior honor’s thesis was supervised by Dr. Shannon Speed and Dr. Charles Hale. My master’s degree was supervised by Dr. Speed and Dr. Kim TallBear. For both master’s thesis and undergraduate thesis I conducted research each summer from 2013-2017 in the TIPNIS Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park in the Amazonian region of Bolivia.
My fiction filmmaking stems from a love of movies fostered by my grandmother Sylvia Burmeister, who sat me down to watch The Godfather parts 1 and 2 when I was around 12 years old. As an adult I became a film noir nut, my favorite genre that I never grow tired of and have never outgrown.