BITBANG Team
Director, Producer and Founder: Bárbara Cerro
General Programming and Executive Production: Bárbara Cerro
Animation Programming: Bárbara Cerro
Animation Selection Committee: Florencia Granja, Bárbara Cerro, Florentina Gonzalez
2025 Official Selection Technician: Florencia Granja
Production Coordination: María Velo
Image Bitbang 2025: Stefanía Tesio
Graphic Design: Stefanía Tesio, Martín Rodríguez
Graphic Coordination: Baco Eve
Photo and Video: LXSM (Matías Buenaventura, Milagros Cascallar), Julieta Sol
Web: Zoe Nallar, Jerónimo Nallar
Production and Supervision: Rocío Muñoz
Coordination of Guests and Graphic Fair: Chaky Lillini
Graphic Fair: Chaky Lillini, Julieta Sol
Technical Production Coordination: Abril Pereda
Public Vote Coordination: Anabella Orsi
Venue Club Lucero Coordination: Verónica Vargas
Venue Borges Coordination: Aq Zunini
Venue Da Vinci Coordination: Sofía Campastro
Guest Assistance: Simón Orcesi, Guadalupe Araujo
Sound Workshop Assistance: Ariel Cirianni
Volunteering:
PRODUCTION AND ROOMS: Antonia Gonella Huidobro, Candela Mercedes King, Carla Rosales, Caro Caos, Daiana Flenche, Damian Piteo, Julieta Torres, Lautaro Ordiz, Lautaro Pereiro, Lucas Rossi Caula, Mara Minetti, Melina Andrada, Mora Barrera, Noah Montes, Paula Agustina Díaz, Pía Berenice Palacios, Rocío Abril Paredes, Sofía Dufort, Stefano Poggiese, Tomás Caruso
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION: Mailen Haffar, Agustina Ornella Favale, Lucas García Ulibarri, Agustin Andersen, M. Paula Osman, Carolina Lourdes Romaniach, Ornella Martina Zanoni, Dolores Borra, Julián Martín Mangone, Aquino Claudia Dalila, Sofía Cantaluppi, Mathias Rutkowski, Brenda, Luciano Bautista, Noelia Noemi Sirito, Víctor Hugo Padilla Morillo, Juan Bautista Tommasi, Emilia Rulli, Eugenia Sol Rossen Arce, Carolyn Díaz, Maria Valentina Zuliani, Valentina Alonso, Ludmila Panza, Florencia Frasca
PUBLIC VOTE: Caro Caos, Carolina Jaume, Heidy Cabezas, Lara Silman, Malena Miniscalco
GRAPHIC FAIR: Julieta Sol, Macarena Mercado, Lautaro Ordiz, Rocio Abril Paredes, Tomas Caruso, Morena Magallanes
ASSISTANCE TO INTERNATIONAL GUESTS: Simon Orcesi, Lupe Araujo, Bruno Caruso, Zoe Fernandez, Tomas Caruso, Santiago Vila
GRAPHICS/COMMUNICATION: Eliana Valentina Melgarejo, Daiana Lucia Flenche, Sofia Alderete, Melina Andrada, Ulises Diaz Lopez, Andrea Odreman, Catalina D’Esposito
REGISTRO: Agustín Andersen, Agustina Luciana Zunini, Ana Cattaneo, Antonia Gonella Huidobro, Candela Mercedes King, Caro Caos, Caruso Tomas, Damián Piteo, Lara Camila Silman, Malena Miniscalco, Martina Magalí Barrios, Noah Montes, Santiago Espindola, Stefano Poggiese, Verónica Vargas, Victor Hugo
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, Bárbara Cerro
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
Voces del Sur
Creative Partner: Ojo Raro
Coordination: Gervasio Canda, 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.
María Velo
Production Coordination
Born in Buenos Aires and with a degree in Image and Sound Design from FADU, she does many things.
By day, she’s a narrative designer for video games. She went through several studies and is currently designing—very happily—for Storyteller. She also works as a producer and director of small audiovisual formats, such as music videos—including two of her own songs—fashion films, and social media reels.
By night, she’s a punk-songwriter with her own solo project. She released her first album, Todos miran mal, in 2023. She’s also the bassist for Ayar Blasco’s band Horrible, with whom they are about to release their debut album.
Ayelén Bustos Suárez
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION
Born in Choele Choel, Río Negro, she is a visual artist and producer. She graduated from the Bachelor’s and Professor’s Degree in Fine Arts with a focus on Scenography (U.N.L.P.), and also trained in Animation Film, Post-production, and Art Criticism. She founded Enzo Ruso Films, where she made Cosmos 181 (web series) and La Última de Febrero (live-action feature film). She is currently producing a new series with Puño Robot (creator of Vigía Planetario) and developing Algo de lo Profundo, a stop-motion short film, her first work as a director.
Baco Eve
Graphic coordination
Born in Haedo, in the western suburbs, she is a visual artist, animator, and producer. She graduated from the Leopoldo Marechal School of Arts’ Visual Arts Teaching Program. She also trained in 2D Animation and Production at the National University of La Matanza. She worked as a producer on Cosmos 181 (a web series) and is currently developing two projects. She also teaches at the National University of La Matanza and the Scalabrini Ortiz National University. In her personal field, she has two animated short films in development and one in production.
Chaky Lillini
Coordination of Guests and Graphic Fair
Animation manager, producer, and director. Founder of Cha Animation (Llovía, 2021; Besitos, 2020). Programmer at the El Ventilador Festival in Santa Fe (2012–16). President of APA and coordinating member of APA Lab Córdoba (2017–21). Experience in studios such as Molinete Animaciones, Potaje Creativo, Osa, Curry, Oniro Cine, and Rudo Company. Currently, he is a programmer for Inevitably Cineclub de Animación.
Abril Martina Pereda
Technical production coordination
Director and producer of the animated short film “Piscina.” She is a student of Animation and Multimedia at the FUC, where she worked as an animator and illustrator, and also as a production assistant on various university short films.
LXSM (Matías Buenaventura, Milagros Cascallar)
photo and video
We are Matias Buenaventura and Mila Cascallar. We work on series for the platform by day and as a creative duo by night. We plan and film projects for brands and artists, telling stories with a vision that blends realism and illusion.
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.
Sofía Paula Campastro
Venue Da Vinci Coordination
Born in Buenos Aires, she studied Image and Sound at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She currently works in the production department, working in film and advertising. She has also tried her hand at creative direction in commercials, music videos, and fashion films. She has an independent production company and is working to one day produce Argentine films under that framework.
Anabella Orsi
Public Vote Coordination
Graduated from the Image and Sound Design program (FADU – UBA). She participated in independent audiovisual projects as a director and production assistant. For the past two years, she coordinated and produced the “Rose d’Or Latinos” awards presented within Content Americas, one of the most prominent audiovisual markets in Latin America. Passionate about filmmaking.
Aq Zunini
Venue Borges Coordination
Audiovisual Director. She studied at the UAI. Since 2019, she has worked in planning, scriptwriting, production, and content creation for various companies in the educational, financial, and advertising sectors. She also served as a production assistant and post-production coordinator for the Argentine audiovisual company Face to Face from 2023 to 2025, working with a broad portfolio of clients such as Pan American Energy, Telecom, and OPS.
Verónica Vargas
Venue Club Lucero Coordination
Verónica Vargas is a director and screenwriter from Formosa, based in Buenos Aires, La Matanza. Her training in Image and Sound Design at the UBA allowed her to approach the cinematic language to tell intimate stories that hybridize with fantasy. Her previous work includes audiovisual projects in animation and live action, both fiction and documentary, which have toured national and international festivals. In 2021, she won the Cine.ar acquisition award for her animated short film entitled “El sonido.” She currently works as a production coordinator for animated films and series.
Guadalupe Araujo
Guest Assistance
Producer and manager passionate about events and audiovisual projects. I find my inspiration in animation and creating spaces where art and management merge to transform ideas into memorable experiences.
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.
Julieta Sol
Photo and Video
Graphic Fair
Image and Sound Designer (UBA), Photographer, Filmmaker, and Teacher. I’m interested in conveying what I do with a spontaneous/documentary perspective. I truly enjoy working with animators, artists, and cultural events in general.
Simón Orcesi
Guest Assistance
2D animator with experience in commercials, music videos, series, and video games since 2021. His work is notable for its experimentation and blending of techniques, especially pixilation. This exploration led to “Metamoscosis,” his debut feature film and thesis at IDAC. He currently continues to develop as an animator, driven by curiosity and a desire to experiment through personal projects and short films.
Ariel Cirianni
Sound Workshop Assistance
Born and raised in the southern suburbs, he studied animation at the Avellaneda Film Institute (IDAC), where he is currently working on his thesis titled “Donde me lleva el agua” (Where the Water Takes Me). He is a full-time animator, a born visual artist, and a lover of creating art in all its forms. In real life, he is an audiovisual producer and graphic designer. He completed the full production alongside student teams of “Levantar vuelo” (Raise Flight) and “Por una maleza” (For a Weed), both selected in the student category at the Cartón Festival.