Paola is a Belgian-Colombian stop motion animator, set and prop maker, and filmmaker. She graduated from a bachelor in laws with a minor in psychology from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). She then enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (KASK) where she completed her bachelor’s and master’s in audiovisual arts in 2022 with the highest distinction. Her graduation project The Leak has since January 2023 travelled to more than 80 international film festivals around the world and been awarded in 13 occasions.

She took part of the StopMoLab 2023, a nine months mentoring program organized by MOMAKIN, directed to stop motion animation professionals.

She has been involved in film projects in animation and live action as part of the art department and as a script supervisor. She currently works in the production of a tv series in stop motion, as well as an illustrator and a graphic and motion designer on a freelance basis.

She is based in Brussels and is currently in the pre-development phase of her first professional short film Playtime with the support of VOCATIO foundation scholarship of which she was a laureate in the audiovisual arts section in 2022.