Petna Ndaliko Katondolo is an internationally acclaimed Congolese filmmaker, ancestral ecologist, and educator. A pioneer of Soul-full Soil Cinema and the Recoding Aesthetic, his work blends Africafuturist poetics with incisive social critique.  In 1994 he co- founded Maideni, an ecological youth movement in Goma. In 2000 he co-founded Yole!Africa and in 2005 he founded the Ishango Encounter (formerly known as Salaam Kivu International Film Festival). Ndaliko Katondolo teaches and consults regularly for international organizations, addressing social, ecological and political inequity among marginalized groups through culture and Art.