About

Telling stories and creating experiences worth fighting for.

In 2007, Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw started unitednotions.film. They didn’t have a grand plan; they just wanted to create work that mattered. Their first film, Stolen, was about slavery in a UN-controlled refugee camp in the Sahara desert. They felt people needed to see it — not in an abstract way, but to really understand what it meant. After that, they made The Bolivian Case, exploring how media and justice systems can shape — and distort — reality in Norway. Then came Cocaine Prison, a film about the drug war and its effect on ordinary lives in Bolivia. Later, La Lucha followed people with disabilities in Bolivia fighting for pensions, turning the camera on the courage of those who rarely have a voice. Ultimately, people with disabilities won their pensions.

By 2021, they were making Prison X — something new, something no one was quite sure how to describe. It was the start of Neo-Andean futurism, a vision of the future rooted in the culture and aesthetics of the Andes. unitednotions.film doesn’t belong to any one genre; it’s not the kind of place where you’d say, “This is exactly what they do.” They take on stories as they come, letting each one find its own shape. Now they’re moving into what they call film futurism, bringing in game mechanics, AI, and immersive technologies. Projects like Prison X and Las Awichas aren’t just films; they’re experiences, almost like a conversation you’re having with the story itself.

With each project, unitednotions.film wants people not just to watch but to feel involved, to question things — identity, culture, climate, justice. They want you to think about the role you play in the world, about what it means to be part of a story that’s still unfolding.