"Until the Jaguar tells her side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the Hunter"
Violeta Ayala is an award winning filmmaker, writer, artist and technologist. She is the first Quechua member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Mamitay, I will always miss you. (1978)
My spirit animal, the jaguar is in danger of extinction, just as my own spirit feels trapped in the "developed" world.
The Jaguaress 2020.
Here goes the sun. Sahara desert (2009)
We are three (2017)
Last trip before the pandemic (2019)
You promised me never ever a dull moment. (2012)
Los Andes don't believe in God, because the Andes are our Goddess. (2013)
I'm proud to carry the oldest blood of the people from the Abya Yala (named The Americas by the colonizers). My grandmother bloodline runs at least 26,000 years deep from the mountains, rivers, lakes, seas and jungles. (1929 - 2018)
Los 2 chitis. When I look for myself, outside myself. Since they were born, they seemed to follow me to the moon and back but I could never find them. When mum died we separated and took us 35 years to live in the same city.
TIME IS FUCKING MERCILESS.