Bellolandia’s Electro Andes, a Latin American cyberpunk anthology weaving Andean folklore into dystopian futures, was presented at MIFA 2024, the international animation market attached to the Annecy Festival.1 The project, directed by Nacho Malter and Damian Fernandez Gomez, is produced in partnership with LambdaClass.2
MIFA is where studios present projects to distributors, broadcasters, and investors internationally.
The series
Electro Andes is an anthology. Each episode is self-contained, set in a world where Andean mythology coexists with technological dystopia. Pre-Columbian gods share narrative space with surveillance states and cybernetic augmentation. The visual language draws from indigenous artistic traditions and classic cyberpunk.
Latin American speculative fiction has a long tradition of blending the mythological with the technological. Electro Andes extends this into animation.
Production
Latin American animation is underrepresented globally. Most animated content consumed in the region is produced in the United States, Japan, or Europe.
Electro Andes is Bellolandia’s most ambitious project: a series with production values designed for international distribution. Animation is expensive and slow. A pilot episode requires months of work from a full team. The partnership with LambdaClass provides the financial backing to sustain this.
Catsuka, the French animation reference site, featured the project. The pilot is in production.