People

Violeta Ayala builds where storytelling, technology and Indigenous futurism meet. She is a Quechua-Bolivian-Australian filmmaker, artist and creative technologist based in Cochabamba, the first Quechua member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a 2026-2027 Mozilla Fellow. She made Stolen, The Bolivian Case, Cocaine Prison, The Fight and La Lucha, then Prison X, Las Awichas and Huk the Jaguaress. She co-founded United Notions Film and sala.red, and she runs koa.xyz.

Dan Fallshaw is a Walkley Award-winning filmmaker, producer and interaction designer. He co-founded United Notions Film in 2006 with Violeta Ayala. He co-directed Stolen. His producer credits include The Bolivian Case (Hot Docs), Cocaine Prison (TIFF), La Lucha, the virtual reality experience Prison X (Sundance, Cannes, SXSW) and the augmented reality installation Las Awichas. He is a Master's candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Technology Sydney, where he researches how humans create with AI. He holds a Bachelor of Science, a Diploma of Education and a Bachelor of Design.

Redelia Shaw (she/her) is a producer with over fifteen years of experience across commercial, independent and broadcast projects for Fox, Showtime, ABC and PBS. She joined United Notions Film in 2015 and produced Cocaine Prison and La Lucha. She teaches Communications and Media Studies at Santa Monica College.

Yasmeen Hitti is an interdisciplinary scientist working across biology, AI and interactive media. She is a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience at the Université de Montréal, CHU Sainte-Justine and Mila, the Québec AI Institute. She earned her PhD at McGill University in collaboration with Mila, researching how plant behaviour can be sensed, interpreted and shaped through technology. She joined United Notions Film in 2024 to develop embodied AI systems. Her credits include Huk the Jaguaress.

​Brian Condori Marza is a 3D artist and technical collaborator. He works across modelling, rigging, animation and real-time systems. He created the characters of Las Awichas and Huk the Jaguaress.