After studying visual arts and audiovisual communication at the National University of La Plata, he has worked in animation filmmaking for over 20 years. His authorial work centers on political animation, using genres like horror and fantasy to explore Latin American historical and political struggles. Plaza has authored and co-authored six short films, which have been selected in over 500 festivals and received more than 240 international awards. He co-authored the short films "El Empleo" and "Padre", both selected at Annecy International Animation Festival's Official Competition. In 2019, he founded Ojo Raro, a production space focused on creating animation from a South American and queer perspective.

The collective's first short film, "Carne de Dios", written and directed by Patricio Plaza, was selected for the Official Competition of the Annecy Festival and won awards such as Best Argentine Short Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, the Rigo Mora Award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, Best Latin American Short Film at Pixelatl and Chilemonos, and the Best Animation Award at the Havana Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the 2024 Annie Awards in the Best Short Subject category. In 2025 his short film "Luz Diabla" was selected at Sundance Film Festival's Official Competition. Patricio has collaborated with Human Rights NGOs like Madres and Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, and is committed to promoting LGBTIQ+ animation creators and racialized minorities in Latin America, leading initiatives like "Voces del Sur" and "Furtive Glances: Women and Dissidences of Argentine Animation." He curated the LGBTIQ animation program "Hidden Desires" at the 2023 Annecy Festival and has given his master class, "Political Horror in Latin American Animation," in Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. He has received support from Argentina's INCAA and the National Fund for the Arts, Mexico’s FONCA and the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and the French Institute in Argentina.

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BLACK DIARIES SHORT

At the beginning of the 20th century, Roger Casement, a British diplomat of Irish descent, uncovers the brutal realities of colonial exploitation in the Congo and the Amazon, confronting both the horrors of imperialism and his long suppressed desires.