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What the press wrote about each work. 149 clippings. 131 of them open the article.

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  • , Barcelona

    Yakumama - Mother of the Water

    A whale with two bodies and one brain, premiering at MozFest Barcelona, 28 to 30 October 2026.

  • , Cochabamba

    Yakumama premieres at MozFest 2026 in Barcelona.

    She is a robotic whale who invents her own movement, makes her own film, and feels the people who come to see her.

  • , New York

    Violeta Ayala in “Imagine a Future Worth Building”

    Violeta Ayala features in Mozilla Foundation’s Imagine a Future Worth Building. She leads Paqarina, the first AI model for Indigenous Bolivian dance.

  • , Shanghai

    Las Awichas in Shanghai

    The awichas have arrived in Shanghai. Andean grandmothers and Yakumama, the mother of water, move through the skyline beside the Oriental Pearl Tower. Violeta “Jaguar” Ayala’s mixed reality work carries Andean memory into a global city and opens public space to other worlds.

AI installation, 2025. 12 clippings.

Huk the Jaguaress

“A futuristic, AI-driven creature that responds uniquely to each visitor through visual cues.”

The Verge

Augmented reality installation, 2024. 18 clippings.

Las Awichas

Feature documentary, 2023. 27 clippings.

La Lucha

“This is a hell of a tale. It’s a magnificent tale about the fight for what is right. I was moved.”

Steve Kopian, Unseen Films

Virtual reality, 2021. 33 clippings.

Prison X

“The most ambitious interactive narrative piece of the year.”

Voices of VR

Feature documentary, 2017. 29 clippings.

Cocaine Prison

“One of this year’s most striking testimonial films”

The Globe and Mail

Short documentary, 2017. 15 clippings.

The Fight

“Extraordinary, just hits you in the face”

Christiane Amanpour, CNN

Feature documentary, 2015. 9 clippings.

The Bolivian Case

“This is reality TV meets true crime in a grand criminal exposé.”

She Does The City

Feature documentary, 2009. 6 clippings.

Stolen

“Suspenseful, scary, and displaying personal bravery by Ayala and Fallshaw.”

Seattle International Film Festival