Wiola Sowa – an animated film director, an academic. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Faculty of Graphic Arts and of the Film School in Łódź (doctoral studies). Two times winner of the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, she is an academic at the Institute of Art and Design at University NEC in Krakow. She makes animated films, but also mixes animation with other genres: documentary and fiction, as well as works in extended reality AR and VR. Her films won over two dozen awards at festivals in Poland and abroad and were screened i.a. in Washington D.C., ìNew York City, London, Paris, Warsaw, Hiroshima and Annecy.