Latin America, XVII century. Amidst the mountains, a spanish Friar is taken by his indigenous disciple to the house of an old female shaman, to cure his strange illness. The old healer will use magic mushrooms to heal the Friar, causing unexpected effects in the body and soul of the evangelizer.
I am a queer animation filmmaker from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I studied filmmaking and visual arts at the National University of La Plata. I worked as a commercial animator on projects for Disney, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers and Paramount. As an independent animation filmmaker I have worked for human rights organizations and received more than 200 international Awards and 500 official selections with my co-authored short films “El Empleo” (2008) and “Padre”(2013). I have always thought about animation as a privileged medium for storytelling, but also as an underrated audiovisual device of subjectivity production and political action. In 2019 I founded Ojo Raro, an independent production company that produces animation with genre-hybrid contents, created by underrepresented minorities.
