BITBANG Team
Director and Founder: Bárbara Cerro
General Programming and Executive Production: Bárbara Cerro
Production Coordination: Ita Romero
Production Assistants: María Ayelén Bustos Suárez, Julián Lassa Ortiz, Rocío Muñoz, Ailín Bustamante, Mila Manela
Animation Programming: Bárbara Cerro
Animation Selection Committee: Florencia Granja, Barbara Cerro, Patricio Plaza, Paula Boffo, Florentina González
Video Games Programming: Bruno Martínez
BITBANG Club: Bárbara Cerro
Design and Art: Dante Zaballa, Pablo Roldán
Graphic Design: Martín Rodríguez
Photo and Video: Julieta Sol, Matías Buenaventura, Milagros Cascallar
Volunteering: Lucía Crohare, Felipe Rueda, Ariel Cirianni, Clara Martínez
Voces del Sur
Creative Partner: Ojo Raro
Coordination: Paula Boffo, Gervasio Canda, Patricio Plaza, Bárbara Cerro
Production Assistants: Agos Fanucchi, Esteban Vijnovich, Ita Romero
Bárbara Cerro
DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER
GENERAL PROGRAMMING AND PRODUCTION
ANIMATION SELECTION COMMITTEE
BITBANG CLUB
Director and founder of BITBANG since 2014 and audiovisual producer. She graduated from Image and Sound Design (University of Buenos Aires), where she also studied Documentary Filmmaking. She directed series, shorts, and commissioned works. Her works toured numerous festivals around the world such as the Berlinale, Annecy, Ottawa and the Quirino Awards, and were awarded nationally and internationally, including the Martín Fierro Digital for Best Series. She gave talks and workshops and participated as a jury in various festivals, including GLAS Animation, Videonale, Trimarchi, Light Box Expo and Ventana Sur. She had an Award for Contribution to Argentinean Animation (Anima Latina) and was selected as one of the most influential women in the animation world, according to a survey conducted by Animation! Ventana Sur. She has worked in numerous animation festivals as a curator and programmer. She performs the Artistic Direction, the curatorship, the programming, the selection of the Animation Competition and the organization of BITBANG.
Florencia Granja
Animation Selection Committee
She graduated from the Image and Sound Design career (UBA). As a filmmaker, she developed and collaborated on animation projects of various kinds in the field of education while attending various visual and plastic arts workshops, complementing her training and experiencing links between frame-by-frame animation techniques through painting in acrylic. Currently, she is specializing in Motion Graphics at the Da Vinci School and editing, animating and composing audiovisual pieces for BITBANG TV. She also participated as a jury in the fourth edition of Anima Latina in the category of “Short films made by children”. She is part of the BITBANG short film selection committee.
Patricio Plaza
ANIMATION SELECTION COMMITTÉE
Patricio Plaza is a filmmaker based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After studying visual arts and audiovisual communication at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, he worked in animation filmmaking for over 15 years. His field of authorial work focuses on political animation, using popular genres such as horror and fantasy to address Latin American historical and political struggles. The short films of which he is author and co-author, have been selected in over 500 festivals and received more than 200 international awards. In 2019 he founded Ojo Raro, a production space with a critical view towards the animation medium aimed to produce animation of popular genres from a South American and queer perspective. “Carne de Dios”, the production company’s first short film, has been selected in the Official Competition of the Annecy Festival, it has won the award for Best Argentine Short Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, the Rigo Mora Award for Best international animated short film at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, the Award for Best Latin American Short Film at Pixelatl and Chilemonos and the Best Animation Award at la Havana Film Festival, among others. He was also nominated for the Annie Awards 2024, the most prominent awards in the animation industry, in the Best Short Subject category.
Paula Boffo - Sukermercado
ANIMATION SELECTION COMMITTÉE
Paula Boffo is an animation director and cartoonist born in Buenos Aires. She studied at the Avellaneda Film Institute. Her art focuses mainly on visual/audiovisual narrative with political, ecological and transfeminist themes. She thinks of audiovisual and sequential language as a powerful tool for change and awareness, participating in action groups against gender violence and sexual education. She has won several awards as a cartoonist for her graphic novels “La Sombra del Altiplano” (2018), “Si mojás me encendi” (2019) and her graphic novel “Santa Sombra” (2022), at festivals throughout Argentina. She works in animation pre-production for various commercial companies and has directed projects such as the short film “Santa Sombra” (2022) and the music video “Con tus hijes si” (2022).
Florentina González
ANIMATION SELECTION COMMITTÉE
Florentina González: Independent animation director and visual artist. Florentina studied at the National University of Arts and specialized in animation at Da Vinci School. In 2020, she completed the Film Program at Di Tella School, focusing on audiovisual experimentation. She directed “El After del Mundo” and “Trompita y la migración de liebres,” both of which were selected for national and international festivals. In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition, “Huesos de Azúcar,” at the Andreani Foundation, where she presented an installation of animated videos and paper drawings.
Ita Romero
PRODUCTION COORDINATION
She graduated from UNC in Film and TV. She is part of Osa Estudio, where she produces series and short films with an authorial perspective. She directed her first short film “Carlos Montaña” in non-camera animation. She works in art direction and as a freelance director. She is the coordinator of APLAB Latin American Animation Laboratory and RIA – International Animation Residency. She is part of the board of directors of APA.
Rocío Muñoz
PRODUCTION AND SUPERVISION
Rocío studied Film Direction at FUC. She was a partner at EL ICONO, a 3D animation and VFX studio, for more than 10 years, working in content development and providing animation services for broadcast design and characters for FOX, Disney, TNT, Nickelodeon, Caloi en su Tinta, among others. Her debut film, the feature documentary “Los Bravos, Peruvian Musicians in Buenos Aires,” premiered at Bafici, Trieste, Lima Festival, among others. She directed short films, including “The Water of Dreams” (live action with VFX) and “Lumbral, Passage to the Fantastic” (3D animation), both part of transmedia projects that won awards from INCAA, Epic Games Award, National Arts Fund, Patronage, Metropolitan Fund for Culture, Sciences and Arts, Virtuality Buenos Aires, Mediamorfosis, among others. She provides production and narrative services, and also works in festivals. She is a tutor for INCAA Short Stories Direction. She is a founding partner of LEVEL UP!, where she directs, produces, designs and develops creative content with transmedia narrative expansion and gamification use.
María Ayelén Bustos Suárez
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
She was born in 1985 in Choele Choel, province of Río Negro, gateway to Patagonia. She is a visual artist, with a degree and a teaching degree in Plastic Arts with a focus on Scenography (U.N.L.P.). She trained in Animation Film and Postproduction, as well as in Criticism and Diffusion of the Arts.
Since 2015 she has been part of Oiketicus, an artistic power trio, and since 2020 she has been a programmer for Multiversos, an art and technology festival.
She founded “Enzo Ruso Films”, which produces independent short films; and together with Re, Criolla and Yugoslavia, the animation series “Cosmos 181”.
Julián Nicolás Lassa Ortiz
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Julián Nicolás Lassa Ortiz is an Animator and Director. He works as a freelance in advertising and music videos with studios such as 1st Ave, Le Cube, 2 twenty and Rudo.
He animated and made Clean up in short films such as Carne de Dios, Trompita y la migration de las liebres and Migrante.
He directed his first short film Strass (2023), winner of the Latin American Student Short Film Competition in Chilemonos and which competed in festivals such as Pixelatl, Anifilm, Animac, Anima, among others.
Julieta Sol
PHOTO AND VIDEO
Graduated in Image and Sound Design (UBA), co-founder and director of the production company Bosque de pixels. Currently teaching assistant in Lighting and Camera and Audiovisual Production at Niñez y Juventud (UBA). Photographer and Audiovisual Director of events and artists from multiple disciplines (working in places such as Tecnópolis, Konex and Nite Lite club).
Jeremías Juárez
PHOTO AND VIDEO
Podcast producer and sound designer. Graduated from the Radio and Television Production and Direction program (ISER). His first podcast was “Beatriz y Roberto”, a show where he talked with his parents about who they were. From that program, he worked with production companies such as Posta, Revista Anfibia, Blender, among others. He is also a fan of board games and has a YouTube channel called “Lanzar los Dados”.
Gerva Canda
PRODUCTION
Gerva Canda was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and currently resides in Montreal, Canada. He studied architecture and worked in animation and video games for numerous companies. His beginnings in the visual arts from an early age led him through different paths and experiences that shaped him in various disciplines, all related to design. Always proactive in creating new worlds and solving aesthetics out of the ordinary, he is ambitious to participate in innovative and challenging projects. He brings to the table a different way of thinking, emphasizing this particular look that Ojo Raro proposes.
Agos Fanucchi
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Agos Fanucchi was born in 1991 and has since collaborated and built on projects that excite her. She studied Graphic Design and Editing at the UBA. She has been an editorial designer since she was 19, and was graphic director of Elemento Disruptivo, a federal Argentine poetry publisher, for 8 years. She founded de Barro editora, a multi-award winning comic book publisher by emerging Argentine authors, and has since then enthusiastically inhabited the role of coordinating and collaborating in developing creative projects.
Esteban Vijnovich
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Born in 1991 in Buenos Aires, he has been producing audiovisual work since 2010 and has participated in events and festivals throughout the country. A graduate of Production from ENERC-INCAA, his works include the documentaries “¿Qué hago en este mundo tan visual?” (2019, M. Embalse) and “Esta herida cuando no cicatriza se volvía piedra” (2019, N. Turjanski); as well as three short films that participated in BAFICI: ¡El Archiduque debe morir! (2019), Máquina de Café (2017) and Frutillas (2015).
BITBANG8 Creative Partner
Rudo Company
Rudo Company is a multi-award winning 2D animation studio, founded in 2015. Directed by Ezequiel Torres and Pablo Rafael Roldán, we work in advertising, video clips, short films and all kinds of formats. We direct and produce TV Commercials for brands such as Apple, Nike, Adidas, Cartoon Network, MTV, Absolut Vodka and many other brands. We are part of the roster of Psyop directors for the United States and Canada. In 2017 we produced the video clip The Wolf that had more than 150 million views on YouTube. So far we have premiered 6 short films, with which we participated in more than 150 official selections around the world. We are excited to create and produce new pieces with different visual universes and are now looking to develop our own original content.
Ezequiel Torres
DIRECTOR | RUDO COMPANY
Ezequiel Torres studied comics in his adolescence with Silvestre Szilagyi and since then he has been a fan of the art of storytelling. He graduated as a Graphic Designer at the UBA and a few years later began his career as an Animator in studios such as La Posta, Flamboyant Paradise and 4 Humans. In 2015, together with Pablo Roldán, he founded Rudo Co and since then he has collaborated as Director and Animator in video clips and numerous commercials for brands such as Adidas, Nike, Apple, and more.
Pablo Roldán
DIRECTOR | RUDO COMPANY
Pablo Roldán studied graphic design at the UBA, while developing his career, working in pre-press, design and art direction in different studios in Argentina, developing graphics and campaigns for local and international brands.
In 2015, together with Ezequiel Torres, he founded Rudo Company and since then he has collaborated as Director and Art Director in multi-award winning video clips and commercials that participated in more than 150 Official Selections at festivals around the world.
Ailín Bustamante
CC | RUDO COMPANY
Ailín Bustamante was born in the north of Argentina where she received a degree in Journalism and Producer and Director for Radio and Television. She produced animated short film projects such as ‘No Lullaby’, ‘Strass’ and ‘Crazy New Hairstyles’ that participated in labs and festivals around the world. She is currently in charge of Rudo Co’s Original Content, in addition to independently producing projects from Argentine authors.