Pedro is the producer, writer, and co-director of When They Awake, an award-winning feature film about Canada’s Indigenous music scene, and social, political, and environmental movement enveloping it. Before his leap into filmmaking, he was a journalist, senior editor, architecture critic, and the author of six travel books, and of two best-selling titles published in China about architecture and the politics of public space. Parallel to his creative pursuits, he spent years as a researcher and political advisor on migration, human security, identity, and border narratives, with organizations like the UN, the International Organization for Migration, the African Union’s Peace and Security Department, and several governments, a job that took him all over the world. Pedro’s work in film has been distinguished with over a dozen awards, nominations, and opening night honours. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, and a fierce rugby player.