About Me
Kim MacQuarrie is a writer, a documentary filmmaker, and an anthropologist. He’s won multiple national Emmy awards for documentary films made in such disparate regions as Siberia, Papua New Guinea, and Peru, numerous Cine Golden Eagle awards, a Cable Ace Award, awards at the Denver and New York film festivals, and was also a winner at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. He recently series-produced and directed a 10-part documentary series for the Discovery Channel, The Tattoo Hunter, which explores native ornamentation around the world. MacQuarrie is the author of four books on Peru and lived in that country for five years, exploring many of its hidden regions. During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently-contacted tribe of indigenous Amazonians, called the Yora. It was MacQuarrie’s experience filming a nearby group of indigenous people, whose ancestors still remembered their contacts with the Inca Empire, that ultimately led him to investigate and then to write his latest book, The Last Days of the Incas. The book was selected by the Kiriyama Prize Committee as a “notable book” for 2008 and as an “Outstanding Academic Title” by CHOICE, also in that year.