Press & Awards
& awards
EMMY Award
[September 2020]
Emmy for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction for CNN DIGITAL "STYLE ORIGINS"
United Plankton Animation Scholarship
[May 2017]
Plankton Animation Scholarship funds part of the MFA tuition as part of the name awards.
AEF Scholarship
[June 2016]
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-HOLLYWOOD funds part of the tuition of a graduate program.
Gaztefilmfest Award for Best Short Film
[March 2019]
Best Short Film Award GAZTEFILM FEST'S "Juvenil" Official Selection.
Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship
[June 2016]
CalArts selects three graduate students from all the Film and Video MFA Programs to develop and teach a full course with the supervision of a mentor (Michael Worthington) and the Dean.
Young Gun 18
[November 2020]
Young Guns recognises the vanguard of creative professionals 30 years of age and under. Founded in 1996, the portfolio-based competition has grown to become one of the most coveted awards for young creatives around the globe. For many, being named a Young Guns winner is a sure sign of a skyrocketing career, as well as a source of validation for all of the stressful days and sleepless nights that have come with early successes.
"Ana is a master animation director. Her talent is organic. She designs her films with iconic, elegantly orthographic compositions while playing in the abstracts of story, challenging her audience to see the world in a more playfully mature, more future female, original way." -Jury statement
ACHAVA Award
[October 2019]
ACHAVA award for “a short film that addresses a socially relevant topic” (Las del Diente) Bauhaus-Universität Weimar film festival, Backup and Beyond.
Golden Cowbell Award
[October 2018]
"I enjoyed the opportunity to judge a great and diverse collection of films for this year’s SoDak Motion
Festival. (...) The unique sound design and kinetic energy of Las Del Diente by Ana Perez Lopez stands out as well". -Jury statement
Florida Film Festival
The 28th annual Florida Film Festival for Las del Diente.
Monstra- Film Festival
"For originality, beauty of design, we give a special mention to 'Las Del Diente'" -Jury statement
Slamdance- Honorable Mention
Documentary Short Honorable Mention at the 2019 Edition of Slamdance.
& Vimeo staff picked !
My work has been featured on “Staff Pick’s” on several occasions. I have also collaborated in various films that have gained the love of Vimeo’s staff.
La Caixa-EFE
Scholarship of excellence in journalism
[October 2012]
LA CAIXA and EFE News sponsors a two-year internship in the largest News Agency in Spanish. The first year I spent it in the Features Department in Madrid and the second in the correspondency of Santiago de Chile. This scholarship of excellence in journalism also finances an MA in International Journalism through UNED.
La Caixa
Post Graduate Fellow in North America,
[June 2014]
“la Caixa” Foundation grants 45 fellowships to carry out postgraduate studies at universities in North America (United States and Canada) and at universities in the Asia-Pacific zone (Australia, South Korea, India, Japan, Singapore and China). These studies can be at a Master or Doctor level.
She studied animation with a specific focus on visual communication and design for non-fiction at The California Institute of the Arts.