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Violeta Ayala

Co-founder. Filmmaker, artist and creative technologist.

Violeta Ayala, in five pictures.

Violeta Ayala builds where storytelling, technology and Indigenous futurism meet.

She is a Quechua-Bolivian-Australian filmmaker, artist and creative technologist based in Cochabamba, the first Quechua member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a 2026-2027 Mozilla Fellow.

She made Stolen, The Bolivian Case, Cocaine Prison, The Fight and La Lucha, then Prison X, Las Awichas and Huk the Jaguaress. She co-founded United Notions Film and sala.red, and she runs koa.xyz.

People in wheelchairs and on crutches face a line of riot police with shields.
La Lucha, 2023People in wheelchairs and on crutches face a line of riot police with shields.
A woman holds an official document up to the camera. A baby is beside her.
The Bolivian Case, 2015A woman holds an official document up to the camera. A baby is beside her.
Riot police stand in front of a prison. Inmates watch from the roof. San Sebastián prison, Cochabamba.
Cocaine Prison, 2017Riot police stand in front of a prison. Inmates watch from the roof. San Sebastián prison, Cochabamba.
A long line of people in wheelchairs and on foot carries Bolivian flags across the altiplano. The march to La Paz, Bolivia, 2016.
La Lucha, 2023A long line of people in wheelchairs and on foot carries Bolivian flags across the altiplano. The march to La Paz, Bolivia, 2016.
A golden jaguar sits among amber dunes and bare branches.
Huk the Jaguaress, 2025A golden jaguar sits among amber dunes and bare branches.
Three figures cross a sand dune at dusk. The smallest one jumps.
Stolen, 2009Three figures cross a sand dune at dusk. The smallest one jumps.
A man in a knitted cardigan shouts with his arms spread wide, in a street at night.
The Fight, 2017A man in a knitted cardigan shouts with his arms spread wide, in a street at night.
A man points a small camera at the viewer. Another man watches from behind. San Sebastián prison, Cochabamba.
Cocaine Prison, 2017A man points a small camera at the viewer. Another man watches from behind. San Sebastián prison, Cochabamba.
A visitor kneels in a VR headset inside the Prison X booth, in purple light.
Prison X, 2021A visitor kneels in a VR headset inside the Prison X booth, in purple light.
A woman in black stands in a gallery between large black-and-white portraits of Andean grandmothers.
Las Awichas, 2024A woman in black stands in a gallery between large black-and-white portraits of Andean grandmothers.
Three people talk on a CNN studio set. A CNN studio.
The Fight, 2017Three people talk on a CNN studio set. A CNN studio.
A dancer crouches on a checked floor under green light. The audience stands around him and two screens show blue creatures. El Martadero, Cochabamba, 2025.
Todo Nace Desde Lo Pequeño, 2025A dancer crouches on a checked floor under green light. The audience stands around him and two screens show blue creatures. El Martadero, Cochabamba, 2025.