Juan Castaneda  new_releases

Hi! I'm an award-winning Creative Director with over 10 years of experience in Games and Animation. My background has been as a Technical Director involved with every aspect of production. I'm a recipient of Colombia's Best Animation National Prize, and my directing work has been featured in MTV Latin America, ISAT Channel, and SIGGRRAPH Asia. My recent gaming projects have been selected as iOS Editor's Picks and featured in Apple's 'New Games We Love' and 'Unacceptably Cute Characters' selections. I love learning and making things. I'm also one of the founding members of the Bogotá ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter and yearly event in Colombia, and have been a guest speaker at GamesBeat Summit, Uniagustiniana University, and the Bogotá ACM SIGGRAPH event. I've been invited as a Big Indie Pitch judge at Pocket Gamer Connects, and as a guest panelist at the Latinx in Games Roundtable at GDC. I head StudioBando, a creative game team based between Bogotá and San Francisco that's currently developing SOPA, a beautiful narrative adventure about the things we pass along. Our prior project, "Ghost Game!" was featured by Apple across the US, Europe, and Latam.