Lola Barreto
Organizer of Wia´s COL
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Director and designer of projects for animation, ICT and transmedia content. She has carried out in recent years works that exalt cultural heritage, arts and science for different fields of communication. She promotes design thinking and the exploration of emerging technologies through the creation of fictional universes. After working in Canada for several years, she founded Autobótika (2009), a Colombian company specialized in transmedia, vfx and animation design. Co-creator and general producer of the animated science fiction series Gravity 1 (2018) in which more than 100 artists participated in Colombia. Her most relevant productions have been: Colombia Bicentennial (Winner of the Steel Pencil for best animation design and ephemeral architecture, 2010), ‘The history of PEACE’ (2013), ‘Colombia is Magical Realism’ (2013), ‘Water for a Fish’ (2015), ‘Lentes’ (Winner at EFFF, Russia, 2020), ‘Borrado’ (2017), ‘Vorágine 31’ (2020), ‘Reparaciones’ (in production) and the 3D animated feature film ‘Pixi Post’ (2016) among other works. She directed more than 80 spots for Nickelodeon’s Uk rebrand in 2005, directed the video game ‘Afterlife Empire’ (2015), worked as a concept designer and animator of theme park projects for Wanda Entertainment at Loopmedia INC and was the visual designer for the cultural magazine ‘This Is Turtle Island’ for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network of Canada- APTN. She is an active member of ASIFA and is currently organizing the Women in Animation – Colombia Chapter Initiative.