About

United Notions Film is an award-winning studio working across cinema, XR, AI, and live systems. Founded by Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw, the studio develops films, immersive experiences, and experimental storytelling tools that move across formats rather than staying inside one medium.


Our work brings together documentary practice, spatial design, computational creativity, and political imagination. We are interested in how stories are shaped by interfaces, bodies, infrastructures, and the systems that increasingly organize public life.


We call this film futurism: building narrative forms for a time when cinema no longer belongs to a single screen.

a group of people standing on top of a building
a man with his arms up in the street
a group of people standing on a road with flags
a person holding a sign in the middle of a desert
three people sitting on chairs on a cnn tv show
a man is standing in front of a chain link fence
a woman holding a megaphone
a man taking a picture with a camera
a man standing in front of a fence at the sundance film festival
a woman smiling in front of a sxsw sign
a group of people in a room with a vr headset
a man holding a flag in front of a city
a drawing of a building
three people walking on a sand dune at sunset
a man wearing a green hat and holding a sign
a group of people in wheelchairs in front of a fence
a group of people in wheelchairs
a crowd of people watching a movie in a plaza
a group of people standing on a balcony
a group of people in wheelchairs are standing in a street
a woman holding up a document with a baby in front of it
a man walking down a road with a camera on his back
a blue tarp on the ground
a group of people sitting around a table in a small room
a series of mugshots of a group of women
a woman is being interviewed by a group of reporters
a man and woman posing for a selfie at a hollywood event
a woman in a wheelchair on the street at night
three people posing for a picture on the red carpet
a group of people watching a movie on a large screen
a painting of a woman with a cheetah on her head
a group of people posing for a photo at an event
a blue jaguar standing in a dark room

In 2007, Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw started unitednotions.film. They just wanted to create work that mattered. Their first film, Stolen, was about slavery in a UN-controlled refugee camp in the Sahara desert. After that, they made The Bolivian Case, exploring how media and justice systems can shape and distort reality in Norway and Bolivia. Then came Cocaine Prison, a film about the drug war and its effect on ordinary lives in Bolivia. Later, La Lucha followed people with disabilities in Bolivia fighting for pensions, turning the camera on the courage of those who rarely have a voice. Ultimately, people with disabilities won their pensions.


By 2021, they were making Prison X — something new, something no one was quite sure how to describe. It was the start of Neo-Andean futurism, a vision of the future rooted in the culture and aesthetics of the Andes. unitednotions.film doesn’t belong to any one genre; it’s not the kind of place where you’d say, “This is exactly what they do.” They take on stories as they come, letting each one find its own shape. Now they’re moving into what they call film futurism, bringing in game mechanics, AI, and immersive technologies. Projects like Prison X and Las Awichas are experiences.


With each project, unitednotions.film wants people not just to watch but to feel involved, to question things, identity, culture, climate, justice. They want you to think about the role you play in the world, about what it means to be part of a story that’s still unfolding.