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Simón Wilches-Castro

Creative Director, Titmouse INC | Colombia/Estados Unidos


Award-winning director and animator from Colombia. He’s currently based in Los Angeles where he works as a Creative Director for Special Projects at Titmouse studios. He’s directed animation for Marvel’s WandaVision, Apple TV’s Everlight, Dua Lipa’s Hallucinate animated video and Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things. He directed The Emperor’s newest clothes musical for HBO, various pieces for The Gates Foundation, and did a One Direction Smut fiction for the show Euphoria.

His films have been screened in the most important festivals around the world. They have earned him several awards and recognitions, including two Adobe design achievement awards, two Annie Awards nominations, and two student Academy Award regional finalist nominations, plus six consecutive official selections in the Annecy Festival, three shortlists at the ADC awards, and the Best Music video award at the New Chitose Airport Festival, among others. In 2020 He founded Amaltea INC. an animation company for independent projects. Simón received his MFA from the John C. Hench Division of Animation at USC and is also a Fulbright Scholar.

Actividades

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SEP

Master classes
Independent animation in large studios
09/09/2023 17:30 - 18:30 Ciudad Creativa Digital Guadalajara