Javier Barboza is an award-winning filmmaker, creative director and animator. His work tackles the complexity of identity and migration using surreal, magical realist, narrative and documentary methods to engage the audience in an experience best described as visually immersive. He studied at East LA College and Cal Arts majoring in Character Animation. He received his MFA at the University of Southern California. He was awarded the Princess Grace Film Grant, was an Annenberg Fellow and was nominated for an Annie award. Barboza continues to pitch and freelance at several studios. Based in LA, he experiments in telling stories through virtual reality, augmented reality, projections, installations, performance art, muppets, graffiti and animation.