Pablo Nicolás Martínez Ballarín

Pablo Nicolás Martínez Ballarín (Pablo Ballarín, born 1991) is an animation director and animator. Raised in Madrid, he studied fine arts there and in 2017 moved to Estonia to study animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where he made the student films In Between the Walls of Perception (2018) and The Piece of Tail in the Mouth of the Snake That Bites Its Own Tail (2019) and worked as an animator on fellow students' films. He went on to direct In My Chest of Fire There Is Still Place to Temple Your Dagger (2021), Point and Line to Cosmos (2023) and A Border Guard and His Dog.