Violeta Ayala is a filmmaker, technologist, writer, artist and the first Quechua member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars). Her recent work, the interactive VR animation Prison X(2021) premiered at Sundance and Cannes XR to critical acclaim. She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentaries Cocaine Prison(2017), The Fight(2017), The Bolivian Case(2015), and Stolen(2009) and have premiered at major film festivals, including Sundance and Toronto, and have been broadcast on PBS, Channel8, Señal Colombia, Ibermedia, World, Amazon Prime and The Guardian. She's won over 50 awards/nominations, including a Walkley (Australia's Pulitzer) and nominations for the IDA(Los Angeles), Rory Peck(London), Platino(Panama), and Fenix(Mexico). Ayala's artworks include Flower Queans, koa.xyz - an ever-changing interactive website and metaverse gallery in voxels (award winner at Yale's center for architecture) and Las Awichas a series of large-format prints in honor of her female Quechua ancestors. She is the co-founder of unitednotions.film