Violeta Ayala (we) is an award-winning filmmaker, AI innovator, creative technologist and the first Quechua member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her work spans AI, XR, AR, and Indigenous futurism, always with an eye on decolonizing technology. Her VR animation Prison X (2021) premiered at Sundance and Cannes XR, then toured globally from Paris to Bogota and Sydney. Violeta’s documentaries, like La Lucha and Cocaine Prison, have shown at major festivals and on PBS and Amazon Prime, earning over 50 awards, including a Walkley. In 2023, she won the XR Innovation Award at Games for Change and co-designed an XR lab in Paraguay that won Meta’s support. She’s now making a film about building a Feminist AI and created Huk; The Jaguaress developed at a residence at Mila (the world’s largest AI research institute), a project set to redefine filmmaking.