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August 2009
Alex Moya founded the production company TVI and “Canal de la Costa,” the first community television channel serving the central coastal region of Chile, where he directed numerous programs with local content. In 2000 he began producing documentaries. Moya’s interests in indigenous cosmology and collective memory, enriched by his research into indigenous Chilean art, led him to animation. In 2007 his epic animation about a Kawéskar hero, Lautaro Edén: Un Heroe Invisible (Lautaro Edén: An Invisible Hero) won the National Film Feature Project Award in Chile. That year he won the National Television Project Award to create the children’s animation series La Memoria Encantada (The Enchanted Memory), based on indigenous myths and legends of Chile. In 2007 Moya’s most recent animation, Los Chulpas, won the Pearl of the North Award for Best Animation Short at the International Film Festival of the North of Chile and had its US premiere as a selection of NMAI’s Animation Celebration! Moya was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He studied Journalism at the Universidad de Concepción, and in 2006 received an M.A. in animation from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Audience
at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival
- Photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI |
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