Violeta Ayala (born Violeta Michelle Ayala Grageda; 16 February 1978)
is a Quechua film director, producer, writer and artist. She is best
known for directing the award winning documentaries Cocaine
Prison(2017), The Fight(2017), The Bolivian Case(2015) and
Stolen(2009).Ayala's latest feature Cocaine Prison was filmed inside
San Sebastian prison in Cochabamba, by the inmates themselves, giving
a unique perspective on the foot soldiers of the drug trade. Cocaine
Prison premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in
September 2017 and has won the audience award at the Rencontres
Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse.In 2017, Ayala also made The
Fight, a short film about a protest by a group of people with
disabilities that march across the Andes in wheelchairs and on foot
for 35 days to the seat of the government in La Paz, asking to speak
to President Evo Morales about a disability pension and were repressed
by the police. The film was released worldwide by The Guardian in May
2017 and has won a Walkley Award, the Deutsche Welle Doc Dispatch
Award at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, as well as a nomination for an IDA
Documentary Award and was a finalist for the Rory Peck Sony Impact
Award.
is a Quechua film director, producer, writer and artist. She is best
known for directing the award winning documentaries Cocaine
Prison(2017), The Fight(2017), The Bolivian Case(2015) and
Stolen(2009).Ayala's latest feature Cocaine Prison was filmed inside
San Sebastian prison in Cochabamba, by the inmates themselves, giving
a unique perspective on the foot soldiers of the drug trade. Cocaine
Prison premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in
September 2017 and has won the audience award at the Rencontres
Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse.In 2017, Ayala also made The
Fight, a short film about a protest by a group of people with
disabilities that march across the Andes in wheelchairs and on foot
for 35 days to the seat of the government in La Paz, asking to speak
to President Evo Morales about a disability pension and were repressed
by the police. The film was released worldwide by The Guardian in May
2017 and has won a Walkley Award, the Deutsche Welle Doc Dispatch
Award at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, as well as a nomination for an IDA
Documentary Award and was a finalist for the Rory Peck Sony Impact
Award.
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