Violeta Ayala

Filmmaker & Futurist

Prison X & Cocaine Prison

Violeta Ayala is a film futurist, artist and writer. She is the first Quechua member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Violeta’s credits include the VR animation Prison X (Sundance, Cannes, Games For Change 2021) and the award-winning documentaries Cocaine Prison (2017), The Fight (2017), The Bolivian Case (2015) and Stolen (2009). Her films have premiered at top-tier festivals including Sundance and Toronto, been distributed in cinemas, broadcast on PBS, Channel 8, Señal Colombia, Ibermedia, World Channel, Amazon Prime and The Guardian. She’s won over fifty awards including a Walkley (Australia’s Pulitzer) and has been nominated for the IDA (Los Angeles), Rory Peck (London), Platino (Panama) and Fenix (Mexico).

Violeta uses film, VR, AR, XR and AI as tools to question the status quo.

Participating Sessions

MAKING THE METAVERSE: PART 1, CASE STUDIES

Who is investing into the metaverse, and who will it benefit? Three pioneering makers present case studies that illuminate how artists interested in journalistic practices can engage with or make work for a metaverse future. These projects include ones that are deploying new technologies or are situated in virtual worlds, as well as traditional documentary film investigations into the ways the metaverse is already being made and contested around us....