Carla Melo Gampert

Carla Melo Gampert is a visual artist, director and animator from Bogotá, Colombia. She studied graphic arts and contemporary dance at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (graduating in 2018), then film editing and directing at Congo Films School, and in 2019 joined the postgraduate cinema programme at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. Her graduation film, the animated short Por Ahora un Cuento, premiered at the Annecy Festival, and her first professional animated short, La Perra, premiered in the Official Competition at Cannes in 2023. She also works as an illustrator, curates exhibitions of experimental animation, and runs Cine Caudal, a production company focused on handmade and expanded animation.