Ana Maria Vallejo

Born 1983 in Medellin, Colombia. Filmmaker and director of animation living currently in Weimar, Germany, where she works as lecturer at the Bauhaus University and as co-director of the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia. In 2015 she finished her master’s in media art & design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and her graduation film “Love in Nine Postcards around the World”. In 2020 and 2021 she participated in the International Animation Film Workshop in Krakow/Lanckorona. “Song of the Flies III - Night” won the award for best animation in the national category at Bogotá Short film Festival in 2021 and in 2022 the award for best emerging director at Kurzsuechtig in Leipzig.