Lieselotte Viaene is a legal scholar and environmental anthropologist, currently the 2026 Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS), Germany, as well as Senior Researcher at the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium. She was the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) research project RIVERS – Water/Human Rights beyond the Human? (2019-2026), in which filming and legal-ethnographic research went hand in hand: two short documentaries, Marsyangdi Wile Ri’iba (Nepal) and Aty Seikuinduwa (Colombia), conceived not as dissemination outputs but as epistemic instruments in their own right, enabling alternative forms of knowledge production, representation and engagement.