Wiola Sowa (Wioletta Sowa) – director of animated films, cinematic VR, and AR projects. She is a Professor at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, where she teaches artistic animation at the Institute of Art and Design. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and the Lodz Film School.

She has twice received the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and is a fellow of the City of Krakow and the Goethe-Institut. From 2008 to 2012, she served as the President of the Polish chapter of ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation). As a curator, she has organized animation exhibitions and film screenings for events such as the Krakow Film Festival and the Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival.

Her films have been screened and awarded at numerous festivals in Poland and abroad, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, the Barbican Centre in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Hiroshima Animation Festival in Japan, and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.

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